No go - Baja Designs Tacoma/Tundra fog kit on '13 cruiser

[patpend2000]

Any chance the shop can make another set of these brackets?

 

[CharlieS]

Any shop can make them. I just made a cardboard template and they made them for me. They're costly though since you pay by the hour. This one off set cost $125. I still have the ones I had made, and the BD lights, sitting on a shelf in the garage.

 

[bloc]

Any shop can make them. I just made a cardboard template and they made them for me. They're costly though since you pay by the hour. This one off set cost $125. I still have the ones I had made, and the BD lights, sitting on a shelf in the garage.

I’ve really come to like my yellow fogs. If they were yellow or amber I’d be trying to take them off your hands..

 

[hankinid]

My 47W yellow Piaa's are still running strong. They're worth a bunch during regular Idaho "inversions" as well as a week in California on the ocean side...snot-o-rama.

 

[patpend2000]

Special Thanks to @CharlieS - I purchased the brackets he had made and the BD fogs and installed them on my '15 this past weekend. With permission, I traced the brackets that he had made and have posted a PDF of the bracket design. These fit BD lights, I made another set of brackets that fit Diode Dynamics and will post them to this thread too. Hopefully this helps others with the brackets to upgrade to LED fogs. In addition to the brackets and lights, you also need a wiring harness from Amazon for the plugs to plug into the factory wiring.

Hopefully someone here with real CAD skills could make a set of drawings which cold be used to laser cut the brackets out.

Factory tabs are .22" thick

Amazon product ASIN B08MVRX46F

 

[patpend2000]

Brackets for Diode Dynamics lights - the mounting holes are centered on the DD lights vs. at the bottom of the light for the BD lights. The brackets can be cleaned up a bit, since I didn't use the DD lights, I just made a quick set of brackets for the pattern.

Again hoping someone with CAD skills can make drawings. It may be possible to 3D print these brackets are well which could really open up some options

 

[Sverige]

Hopefully some vendors will pay attention to the interests of 200-series owners for light bracket kits for factory bumpers or fog cutouts. I have probably emailed every major vendor to ask them to make these parts for our trucks with zero positive response.

 

[CharlieS]

The addressable market is too small to make it viable.

 

[bloc]

The addressable market is too small to make it viable.

When you consider these only work on three model years of an already scarce cruiser, I see your point. But.. all the development work is already done. Just burn them out and bend them up..

 

[CharlieS]

When you consider these only work on three model years of an already scarce cruiser, I see your point. But.. all the development work is already done. Just burn them out and bend them up..

I've offered the design and templates I made for free to multiple vendors, with zero interest.

 

[bloc]

I've offered the design and templates I made for free to multiple vendors, with zero interest.

Their loss. Usually they can't help thinking there are strings attached to "free".. or at least that has been the mentality at the fabrication shops I've worked with and for. And often, there are strings.

End of the day all it takes is the right vendor to come along and actually be interested in the product. Anyone paying attention should know 200 owners are willing to pay for this stuff..