My Toyota Vios’s fog light that I have being using for more than 4 years found to have cracked lines on the glass due to the prolonged usage and high heat intensity produced from HID bulbs previously.
Now you may wondering how can these OEM Toyota Vios’s fog light get damage in 4 years duration? My Toyota Vios is ‘J’ spec that wasn’t come with fog light feature.
I bought this aftermarket Toyota Vios’s fog light, made from Taiwan at auto accessories shop. The finishing and quality of the product wasn’t great and don’t last as long as OEM products. Not only that, previously I had equipped the fog light with HID bulb, and the intense heat produced from the HID bulb caused the glass to broken.
Currently, I am going to DIY to replace the broken Toyota Vios’s fog light. I’ve bought a set of Toyota Vios Fog Light from lelong.com.my with that cost me RM145:
Next, we are going to dissemble the Toyota Vios front bumper in order to replace the Toyota Vios’s fog light.
Step by step to dissemble the Toyota Vios Front Bumper and replace the fog light
- Remove the screws from both side of the Toyota Vios fender. We had difficulty to access to the screws part due to tire is blocking the clearance, hence we need to align the tire to the right position to get the clearance of the screwing point as below image:
Remove screw from Toyota Vios Fender - The next step is open the car hood, and remove the pins at the top of the front bumper. For my case, I lost my pins, that why I am using cable ties to secure my front bumper to the car body. I need to cut the cable ties out:
Removing Toyota Vios Front Bumper Cable Ties - Once the cable ties have being removed, slightly pull down the Toyota Vios front bumper:
Detached Toyota Vios Front Bumper - Now we have the clearance and able access to the Toyota Vios fog light:
Toyota Vios Fog Light on the Front Bumper - Remove the H11 connector from the Toyota Vios fog light bulb socket. Then unscrew the 3 screws fog light:
Unscrew the Toyota Vios Fog Light screws - Then remove out the fog light:
Removed fog light from the Toyota Vios front bumper See the old and new Toyota Vios fog lights at below image:
Old and New Toyota Vios Fog Lights - Next, we install the new Toyota Vios fog light on the front bumper. Attached the fog light on the front bumper and screw the 3 points:
New Toyota Vios Fog Light on the front bumper - Connect the H11 connector to the bulb socket and we are done on the left side of the DIY Toyota Vios fog light replacement.
Repeat the same steps for the right side, fog light replacement activity. - Once we are done the fog light replacement at the right side, we attached back the Toyota Vios front bumper to the car body and screw back to the chassis. Since I lost my pins for the top side of the front bumper, I shall use new cable ties to attached back my Toyota Vios front bumper to the chassis:
Cable Ties on the Toyota Vios Front Bumper We have done the DIY Toyota Vios fog light replacement. Now my Toyota Vios fog light shine like a new lamp:
Toyota Vios New Fog Light Replaced Toyota Vios New Fog Light Replaced 2
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I notice my Toyota Vios 2018 front lamp with very deem light, shall i change the bulb or shall i just add d fog light as my model J did not come with the light??
Hi Hew Hiong,
Just change the bulb to better brightness will do.
Fog lamp don’t help driver see better actually, but rather just create more visibility of the vehicle.
hi.. love your content.. can u share on how to install fog lamp for vios ncp93? thanks bro
Hi, you just replace the fog light only right without replacing all the cables?
How do you pull down the bumper?
just follow the steps in this post, and just pull down the bumper once the hocks are taken off.