help with Hella comet 500 fog lights.

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Good afternoon.

I have just bought a pair of used good condition Hella fog.

I have striped them to give a clean and change the 55w bulbs but i have spotted this extra 4w bulb witch i dint know was fitted tho them.

Do you have these lights? any idea what it is for or has someone fitted as a side light baby?


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landy-lee said:
Good afternoon.

I have just bought a pair of used good condition Hella fog.

I have striped them to give a clean and change the 55w bulbs but i have spotted this extra 4w bulb witch i dint know was fitted tho them.

Do you have these lights? any idea what it is for or has someone fitted as a side light baby?


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Im guessing it’s an extra sidelight/marker light. @nobber may know as he’s using some classic lights.
 
I reckon they are marker lights, are you sure they are fog lamps? Has someone maybe switched out the reflectors? I did it to a pair of Land Rover Safari Spots once, straight swap for a pair of sealed beam units, the idea was I could dip them until I realised what a bad idea that was! Nice result though and will look nice on a pair of fogs.
 
nobber said:
I reckon they are marker lights, are you sure they are fog lamps? Has someone maybe switched out the reflectors? I did it to a pair of Land Rover Safari Spots once, straight swap for a pair of sealed beam units, the idea was I could dip them until I realised what a bad idea that was! Nice result though and will look nice on a pair of fogs.
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I think they are fogs.

I believe hella only do fogs and spot in the 500 style lamp.

Im guessing they are fogs as the glass is defused?
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Yeah fogs for sure, strange that they have marker lights, nice find though. Not so much diffused, its designed to create a very wide beam pattern, like little triangles sending the light sideways, so yeah, I guess diffused!
 
Im going through a phase with lamps at the moment! Picked up this on the Bay for 7.50 posted! Metal painted body, nice wee work lamp, Durite do a spot lamp version but with a plastic body so I might see if I can get one and transplant the reflector into this one.
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Lee , looking at your photo, I reckon thats a retro fit, it looks like the hole is drilled and a grommet fitted, I could be wrong though.
 
landy-lee said:
Oh my!

Nice lamp sir!
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Why thank you sir. They come up on eBay all the time cheap as chips because no one has a use for them, not cool enough to compete with LED work lamps! I think they might have been initially used for marine applications, part number is 0-539-00
 
nobber said:
Lee , looking at your photo, I reckon thats a retro fit, it looks like the hole is drilled and a grommet fitted, I could be wrong though.
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Yes mate i think this also. I have sent the guy a nice message saying im happy with the lamps just wondering what the extra bulb is but i have had no reply yet.

Im not planning on using it.

I also have a pair of hella 500 spot lamps on the way to (ebay+stella=things turning up by post) lol

Will do a post on them being fitted. Im going for the camel trophy look with them.

Cheers Landy-Lee
 
I would use them, or at least have the option to, I know what you mean, some of my best buys were Stella induced!
 
landy-lee said:
I think they are fogs.

I believe hella only do fogs and spot in the 500 style lamp.

Im guessing they are fogs as the glass is defused?
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They do, plus a driving lamp which I have on my disco and fitted with back in 1997 still perfect, but then it’ s not just any old lamp it’s a Hella lamp.
Fog lamps have a flat top beam and mounted lower down at the front, unlike a spot or driving lamp, I suspect your fogs have a diy modification, perhaps they were intended to be used on a kit car as head lamps, but certainly Hella have never produced fog lamps with a side lamp bulb fitted.[
 

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