Wiring and light mounting on front bumper

[Runaway Tractor]

There is a 0.1% chance that $14 fake brand chinesium lights on Amazon will be useful in fog, or in really any other condition. There's no way to say that without sounding rude. It's just reality. Those lights don't belong on anything more substantial than a lawn mower. If you want light that is useful and has a real beam pattern, it will cost real money.

I went with Diode Dynamics 2" amber lights. They fit great in the air intake. Only temporarily wired up since I ran out of time. Hoping to get it permanently wired up this weekend and will post a thread about it. They are actually very very useful in fog and rain. And frankly are very nice in normal nice weather at night.

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[derelict]

I'm in the process of wiring these DRL's/fogs that I just installed above the recovery hooks. I wanted to stay away from mounting them in the area of airflow. I know that with small lights in the airflow area most likely will not create any problems but if the truck goes into the dealership with an overheating problem and the lights are mounted there good reason for them to say that's the cause and bye bye warranty. Just my opinion.

I like the positioning of these. I was reading the reviews and people were complaining about the brackets, do you have any concerns about the lights popping off the brackets? I would love to see a pic of these lit up...

 

[Firn]

Fwiw, remember fog lights only provide a benefit in fog.

Folks like to think that more light must be better but it's not true. Here, a low mount is not any good for distance projection and only lights the pavement in front of the truck with no measurable increase at distance. Hence, only good for fog, and being a dick to other drivers. In truth lightning the pavenet in front of you actually works against you.

As far as accessory lightning pods or accessory driving lights are best, but obviously only work with high beams.

Frankly, with as awesome as the factory lights are there is zero help from a low mounted fog pattern, that is unless it is actually heavy fog. A driving light may be the only benefit.

If you are into guns then it's like saying you need to hit a target at 300yrds, so you are going to add a 9mm handgun when you are out with your 30-30.

 

[21st Century Truck]

Fwiw, remember fog lights only provide a benefit in fog.

Folks like to think that more light must be better but it's not true. Here, a low mount is not any good for distance projection and only lights the pavement in front of the truck with no measurable increase at distance. Hence, only good for fog, and being a dick to other drivers. In truth lightning the pavenet in front of you actually works against you.

As far as accessory lightning pods or accessory driving lights are best, but obviously only work with high beams.

Frankly, with as awesome as the factory lights are there is zero help from a low mounted fog pattern, that is unless it is actually heavy fog. A driving light may be the only benefit.

If you are into guns then it's like saying you need to hit a target at 300yrds, so you are going to add a 9mm handgun when you are out with your 30-30.

I agree.

And also FWIW, in my experience while driving in various low visibility conditions on three continents, the truly helpful fog light (or two) is a rear fog light (RFL) which projects a tightly focused red beam rearwards to warn an approaching driver behind you of your presence, and might actually save the user from a major rear-ender during true dense fog. Remember the headlines about the October 2023 multi-vehicle crash on I-55 in Louisiana? where the approaching vehicles just kept running into stopped vehicles, over and over, because of bayou-generated dense fog?

Regretfully, the F150 body being what it is, there are (so far anyway) no Ford OEM rear fog lights available from European ECE versions of the F150 for us to wire up. The ECE rear fog lights are most often designed & built into OEM taillights. For modern North American Fords, such a mod entails a new cabin light switch with the added RFL button, a FORScan mod or two to show the RFL telltale on the IPC, and running a missing circuit wire from the appropriate BCM pin back to the new OEM taillight with the RFL.

I've hooked up my 2015 Fusion with two such rear fog lights (one from right-hand drive Fusions / Mondeos from Britain and one from left-hand drive Fusions / Mondeos from Finland), and also my Ford Mach E with a center-mounted reverse + rear fog light. Used these lights multiple times, usually up in the Appalachians and in the Rockies and also around Lake Superior, almost always in Winter or similar cold wet conditions. This one mod, I'd add in a heartbeat if / when Ford ever makes export F150 versions which include RFLs.

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