Lighting questions!

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 02/20/2016 at 19:23 • Filed to: None

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Hi my fellow Oppos!

First off, I am in Nova Scotia, Canada. I’m looking for a replacement Drivers’ Side (i.e. Left) headlight for my 2009 Hyundai Accent daily driver. It’s had a crack in it since I bought it used in 2013 and it’s been fine and not terribly noticeable until now. The crack is still not noticeable, but I did notice that water is starting to get into it and pool in the lowest-front portion of the light - not cool!

Any Oppos know a reputable (and cheap, but decent quality!) place to get a replacement new or used? There are no pick-and-pulls around where I live, and most places I’ve seen have costs of $150+ CAD or so to buy and ship one to me.

Any suggestions for somewhere I could try and look online? Already checked Ebay and Amazon...

Secondly...I really miss having foglights on my car during inclement weather. I could buy OEM-style lights for my car as mine never had them fitted from the factory, but that would require my purchasing the lights, plus a new bumper insert as well. The fogs were a huge help on my old 2002 Subaru Impreza when driving in snowstorms and fog, and I find the headlights alone on my Accent (even with somewhat upgraded bulbs) are still a little on the dim side on low-beam (high beams are fine).

Anybody have any suggestions for smaller-sized, reasonably-priced, usable fog/driving lights that are easy to mount and wire up (preferably so they can’t be turned on if the car’s ignition is set to off)? LED lights would be nice as they are low power draw and give a nice clear white light...

I’d probably want to mount them somewhere in/in front of the grill, as marked in this pic (not my car although exactly like my car [except mine doesn’t have the factory fogs], pic taken from Google):

Ignore the fog lights in the above pic because, as mentioned, those are the factory-option lights that my car didn’t come with. On my car, that whole lower ‘grill’ area where the factory-option fogs are fitted is just one big black solid plastic piece with no holes or useful indents, so no easy place to mount lights down there without it looking ugly or without a lot of hacking! The blue rectangle indicates where the little amount of water that has seeped in is pooling,

Thanks for any suggestions! :)

whoarder is tellurium > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 02/20/2016 at 19:29

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http://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/hyu…

Hoping there’s no difference between US and CAN market headlights...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > whoarder is tellurium 02/20/2016 at 19:33

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No difference between them, no - most US and CAN market cars have completely interchangeable parts between the same models.

Not bad....RockAuto gets it down to a little over $100 including shipping for the “Economy” part. I was hoping I could sqeak it under $100 as I’m a bit low on funds at the moment while job hunting...

My best option so far though for a replacement housing - thanks!!!

whoarder is tellurium > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 02/20/2016 at 19:41

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You could always remove what water is in there now and just epoxy up the crack until you’ve got more job monies.

Laurence > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 02/20/2016 at 19:52

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For the headlight, I’d try Car-part.com . I did a quick check, they seem to have 15 pages of used LH headlights that apparently fit an ‘09 Accent.

The fogs I don't know where to start though :/

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > whoarder is tellurium 02/20/2016 at 20:05

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I’ve thought of that, but the crack was caused by a a very minor fender bender before I bought the car, and there is also casing damage to the light assembly on the INSIDE (i.e. under the hood). I could epoxy it up and it would probably be fine, but I do have enough “side monies” that I would like to make it a bit less unsightly, so if I can’t find anything cheaper, I’ll probably going for that RockAuto part as it’s still like $50 CAD less than most places I had found. :)

It may be a crappy economy car, but ‘Humdrum’ is still MY crappy little economy car and she deserves SOME attention for all I put her through! :D

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Laurence 02/20/2016 at 20:11

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Just checked Car-part.com - the local Auto Recyclers have one for $85 that they claim is Grade A.

I am willing to bet it’s the same part I saw advertised there last year and asked about to find out it that had a huge scratch across the front lense...they’re asking $85 CAD for it which is more than it would cost to buy a brand new one from RockAuto. No thanks... :(

The next closest place is asking $95 CAD, but they are 150km away...

Thanks for the suggestion though!