Hey everyone,
I have a 2008 Sport, and slowly making it a spirited daily driver. Up next is exterior (replacing yellowed headlights, cracked tailights, missing side skirt, cracked rear bumper cover, tint windows, replace cracked rear-view mirror housings)... this thing has been ridden hard and put away wet.

However, looking for some advice on my foglight situation. First, both original fogs have cracked lenses, and when I took off the front bumper cover to do some other work, I noticed that they have also been unplugged from the harness. Then, I noticed that someone has replaced the headlight dimmer switch (interior blinker stalk) with a non-fog light version... so, no rotating fog-light switch.

This all leads me to believe that at some point there was some kind of electrical issue with the fogs, the switch, or some wiring in-between. Or, possibilty someone was like REALLY agressive with the turn-signal, broke the stalk, and replaced it with a Napa-special, and later realized that it did not have turn signal functionality. Or...? (insert your thoughts here)

Now I have a couple choices--
1. replace the stalk and the fogs, hook everything up and hope there isn't a short or some other electrical issue. If there IS an electrical issue, I go down a rabbit hole of time and money that I don't really have Cost: approx 200$
2. replace the front bumper cover with a non-sport version, here. This will eliminate the fogs entirely (which I don't really care about anyway), ensure that there won't be any electrical gremlins, and get a fresh, non-scratched/cracked cover. But, I am not sure if this cover will allow me to reinstall the front-spoiler lip? It says there are holes, but who knows? Cost: approx 300$ (100 for the part, 150 to paint, and 50 for misc clips, etc)

What would you do? I am leaning towards option 2, but what am I missing in the analysis? Anyone have real-world experience with one of these aftermarket cheap-guy bumper covers?

Thanks everyone!

Rob

 

What I would do is this:

First replace the stalk and plug in the fog lights. If it works you're in business.
If it doesn't work, I would begin diagnosis to check for broken connections or corrosion on the wires and plug connectors.
Diagnosis may prove to be simple and easy or maybe not.

If diagnosis doesn't yield any results, I would get an aftermarket switch and fuse tap. Not very expensive at all.
Then I would wire the fog lights to the switch and circumvent any electrical problems the fog lights may have.

Overall, this is probably the easiest and most economic method to solve the issue.

 

alright, thanks for the input! I will definitely need to order new fogs to do it that way--the ones on the car now are 100% smoked. The more I think about it, though... maybe deleting the foglight option would be better? Winter driving, rocks, etc, blowing out the foglights again...

Any other thoughts out there?

Thanks!
Rob

 

Skip the fogs and work on more important things. Factory fogs are more cosmetic than useful.

This is all my opinion. In my 15+ years of Fit ownership I don’t recall ever turning on the fog lights and thinking “oh, that’s much better.”

 

Fair enough! I think I am leaning this way too...