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New to the forum, I have a 2006 C2S Cab, and I hate the yellowish stock fog light H8 bulbs. Has anyone on here installed PIAA TERA 6000K Ultra White LED H8 bulbs??? I have heard bad things about Hoen. Anyone seen any LED conversions yet for 997?
 
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Has anyone replaced their stock fog light bulbs with a after market super white bulb> I thought LED would make it look more 09+. Any thoughts or feedback would be apreciated!
 
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Nice to see another local here. I've try LED fog lights bulbs on my other car. It throw cel and I believe it will need resistor to make it work. PIAA should work fine or HID fog light kit!
 
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Yeah it's my first porsche and I plan on doing some serious stuff to it next summer. But I want to do the lights ASAP.

Here are the ones I want:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/PIAA-TERA-6000K-U...QQcmdZViewItem

I read here that LED will put a check light warning on startup, any experience withy this?
https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...t-upgrade.html
 
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Originally Posted by C2SKID
Hey guys,

New to the forum, I have a 2006 C2S Cab, and I hate the yellowish stock fog light H8 bulbs. Has anyone on here installed PIAA TERA 6000K Ultra White LED H8 bulbs??? I have heard bad things about Hoen. Anyone seen any LED conversions yet for 997?
Could you please provide more info regarding experiences about the Hoen bulbs?
 
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I read it on that discussion, Let me know if you have any experience with Hoen.
 
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I've try H11 LED bulbs for my MB, it throw cel every time they are on. I've good experience with HID fog light kit. Use it in my old car for 3 years with no problem.

C2SKID, nice color combo! what kind of serious stuff are you planning next summer?
 
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https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...t-upgrade.html

I read it on that discussion, Let me know if you have any experience with Hoen.
I've never tried the LED type bulbs. I do have the Hoen fog light bulbs and rear license plate bulbs which I've been running for about a year now.

Fortunately, I have not experienced any problems with the bulbs burning or melting the any of the lenses (although, after I ready your post last night, I did run down to the garage and take a look )
 
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I can tell you from personal experience Hoen's service and products are superb. I have used many of them.

Hoen has xenon compatible bulbs that are phenomenal.

The PIAA is bogus as far as I am concerned. I tried them a while back on an SL500 and the lightoutput was worse than the OEM.

Contact Hoen and direct your concerns to them.

http://www.hoen-usa.com/fog2.htm
 
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So to get everything all white in I need to do fogs , parking lights and w5w bulb?
 
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So to get everything all white in I need to do fogs , parking lights and w5w bulb?
Yes but you are not actually getting w
"white".

You are getting a xenon compatible light in the similar kelvin scale as xenon.

So the lights will not be yellowish in appearance.

They will be nice and very noticeably different in the dark.
 
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