Yellow fog light dome removal - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

krjt · #1 01-03-2011, 09:03 PM

Anyone ever remove the yellow fog light dome ? How does it affect light pattern beside the white light? Does it produce too much glare or is it a color change only...Do I heat up the seal and use a putty knife to open up the glass/reflector assembly or is there another way to do this?

Thanks.

babymog · #2 01-03-2011, 09:51 PM

What kind of car? A Mercedes most likely, year/model will help further as there are several significantly different light designs over the past 124 years.

LandYaghtLover · #3 01-03-2011, 10:20 PM

Domes in my car have the top/forward portion dipped in reflective stuff. I just installed them in my euro fixtures.

krjt · #4 01-03-2011, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by babymog

What kind of car? A Mercedes most likely, year/model will help further as there are several significantly different light designs over the past 124 years.

Whoops.. forgot to mention it is a 89 300E.

Thanks.

compu_85 · #5 01-03-2011, 10:47 PM

The glass dome pops out of the metal clips. Just be careful, the glass is thin and you can break it easily.

-J

babymog · #6 01-04-2011, 02:23 PM

If you remove the glass dome in the 124 DOT lights (the '86-'93 ones), you remove the reflective mask and they are no longer fog lights (light will go in all directions). Will work I suppose if you'd rather use them as clear driving beams.

compu_85 · #7 01-04-2011, 02:41 PM

There will be more glare, but they will still be a fog beam pattern. The reflector and mask make a pencil beam, then the lens stretches it out into the fog pattern.

-J

babymog · #8 01-04-2011, 02:43 PM

But the design of a fog-lamp is to have a sharp cutoff at the top, so that there is no (little) light above the light to reflect back into the driver's eyes. Without the mask, you are exposing the rest of the lense directly to the bulb, upward and downward.

MBeige · #9 01-04-2011, 03:01 PM

This is our '90 300TE with stock NAM lights (w/ yellow domes). Only the park and fog lights are lit up. Notice how some light still goes upward onto the ceiling.

The lights are aimed properly.

babymog · #10 01-04-2011, 03:49 PM

From the park or fog lamps? Looks more amber than the light on the floor.

compu_85 · #11 01-04-2011, 03:51 PM

I'll have to take a picture of my car... one of the domes fell off. There is a bit more glare on that side but it's not bad.

-J

MBeige · #12 01-04-2011, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by babymog

From the park or fog lamps? Looks more amber than the light on the floor.

Now that you've mentioned it, hmmm...

Pretty sure the light was from the fogs. It's not a well defined cutoff.

Might have also been from the reflection on the ground.

The curved cutoff seen in the photo below could suggest the corner light too, but it's too bright to be the park lights alone.

Another view of the fogs from the W124, but head on this time.

LandYaghtLover · #13 01-04-2011, 06:27 PM

Well if someone REALLY wanted to drop the yellow, I have to inserts that were never used with a lamp. So for all intents they are new. Its the bulb base with dome for an H3. Thus you can drop the glass without dropping the mask.

babymog · #14 01-04-2011, 06:42 PM

For which car? The 124 already uses H3s, would be no change.

LandYaghtLover · #15 01-04-2011, 06:46 PM

Talking to me? For a 126 with Euro or US. The bases swap out. Of course with Euro there is usually no yellow glass anyway - which is why I swapped. I now have euro yellow fog which I am very happy with. I just mentioned H3 to be clear, but both US and Euro use H3 form what I can tell.