Fog Lamp Bulb

[deming]

Any difficulty replacing the fog lamp bulbs?
Looked a bit frustrating to me.
Pulled the grill cover off but I could not see how to get them out.
Not like a Toyota or Chevy!!!!

 

[aja8888]

Any difficulty replacing the fog lamp bulbs?
Looked a bit frustrating to me.
Pulled the grill cover off but I could not see how to get them out.
Not like a Toyota or Chevy!!!!

Three screws hold mine in after I pull the grills off. Takes 10 minutes. What car?

 

[leicaman]

Deming has a 2005 Passat TDI wagon

 

[blaz]

Ditto. No problem here. Although my fog light assembly required some major epoxy repair to put it back together. Pretty big stone must have hit it.

EDIT: Funny thing was, the glass cover wasn't broken. Just the filament in the bulb, and one of the 3 tabs (shown below in MOGolf's photo) used for the mounting screws.

 

[MOGolf]

Note that there is a tightening (to 1.5 Nm) sequence to the screws.

 

[maktas]

Coincidentally, one of my fog bulbs are burnt out. I replaced the orginals with PIAA ones that were pretty much garbage (just regular bulbs painted blue which only makes a yellow light slighly less yellow but much dimmer.

After some research, I ordered some Osram "Night Breakers" +90. I hope for better results with these!

 

[Route 66]

I thoght deming traded one to a Subaru.

 

[deming]

We still own (2) 05 model Passat TDI Wagons.
One will be headed to St. Louis is a few months.

I will attempt to tackle that pesky fog light bulb this week.
MoGolf--Thank you for the picture. I did not know about the screws.

Deming

 

[deming]

Does the H3 sound like the correct replacement bulbs?

Advance Auto sold me two new bulbs (H3) ---funny looking bulbs.

Thanks
Deming

 

[BleachedBora]

I'm on the laptop at the moment and can't confirm, but I do know that all the fogs I know of for the Golf/Jetta A3/A4 platforms use an H3; I'm pretty sure you're good.

Only one way to find out though!
Cheers,
-BB

 

[dhuddleson]

The H3 bulb is absolutely correct! A common and readily in stock item at any automotive store, probably even at Walmart.

 

[Route 66]

The bulbs made is China do not last more than a week.