ARB bumper fog lights. Type of bulb?

[SGT-Wright]

What is the replacement bulb type in the fog lights in an ARB bumper? I tried to look it up and ARB sells a replacement bulb but they don't tell what kind it is. Is it a special OEM bulb that is only sold through ARB? Anyone that has replaced them please let me know what worked best and if there are any wattage issues. Thanks

 

[derian06]

does the arb bumper come with seperate housings or do you use the h3's foglights?

 

[Best4x4]

The Arb fogs are H3 bulbs and it's a 90.00 kit. You can't use the OEM fog lights Derian06. I'm just using the stock ones but any H3 bulb will work.

 

[SGT-Wright]

you can't use the factory fog light assemblys from the hummer bumper. The lights from ARB are smaller and made to fit their winch bumper with an adjustable mount.

Best4X4, are you saying that the light bulbs in the ARB light fixture are a regular H3 halogen? I just have not had a chance to compair the bulbs side by side. If thats the case and it is an H3 than there are a LOT of options available.

 

[Best4x4]

Yep when I installed mine (my ARB bumper didn't have fogs when I bought the Alpha), I was curious as to what bulbs it used because I didn't want to fry the OEM fog light wiring or relays. I found H3 55watt bulbs, and the stock OEM fogs are like 9145's 40/45watt. I've now had them installed a year with zero issues being connected to the OEM fog light wiring.

I was thinking about some PIAA or Sylvania ZXE H3's but I'm not going to replace them until they go out.

 

[SGT-Wright]

I read on another forum that the IPF foglights in the ARB are hard wired and you have to cut the wires to the bulb inside the fixture and splice in the new bulb. Did you have to do that or did it have the little plug that the 2 wires poke into like other fig lights?

 

[Best4x4]

I had to splice them into my OEM wiring harness. One wire is the H3 bulb itself and the other is the ground wire. I rewired it so that in the future all I have to do is replace the H3 itself vs do any rewiring. Since I was wiring them up in the first place it took me maybe 5min extra per light to modify them.