The Raxiom Smoked Halo fog lights are available for the 2005-2012 Mustang GT owner looking
to ditch the boring simple look of the factory fog lights with a super attractive modernized
halo light.
Now, this not only stands out from the rest of the pack with styling, but it matches perfectly
with the halo headlights you might already have.
The installation for the fog lights is not too hard at all.
There's a small amount of splicing for the halo's, but I'm still giving it one out of
three wrenches on our difficulty meter.
Now, the early S197 GT models all came with fog lights in the factory grille off the line
from Ford, but they're not really anything crazy or special.
Sure they light up and help a bit at night or in the fog but really, they're not entirely
great to look at, at least not as cool as they could be.
Now the Raxiom fog lights are an iconic halo styling that replaces the stock set as a direct
fit and they offer a blacked out housing for stealth with a bluish halo ring around the
edges and the fog light bulb in the center.
Now, this is something that dominates the aftermarket fog light world for this generation
because it's such an upgrade for your front end.
Now the halo will come on when you splice into your parking lights.
So any time your headlights or even just parking lights come on the halos come on as well.
Now the fog lights will be accompanied by that halo light whenever they are on.
Now the housing is all factory OEM quality, the lenses are smoked so you really get that
nice aggressive appearance, but the lighting still shines through.
The accent lighting is all CCFL and the fog light bulbs included are H10s for proper fitting.
Now the kit comes with the driver and passenger side together and overrun you about $130 bucks.
Like I said earlier, these are a perfect match to the Raxiom Smoked Halo headlights, so getting
them together would really complete the front end look.
Now, keep in mind anyone with a V6 Mustang that converted their front end with the GT
bumper and upper grille, this will work for you guys too.
So V6s with GT front ends can pick this kit up.
You'll need that upper grille and that GT front bumper to complete that conversion and
make these work, however.
Again, there is a bit of splicing, but quick splice connectors will make that kit a little
bit easier to work.
Expect one out of three wrenches on our difficulty meter.
It'll take about an hour, maybe hour and a half in the driveway at home.
You want a simple ratchet and socket set and some needlenose pliers, as well as a way to
splice those together, whether it's a quick splice connector to make life a lot easier,
soldering is obviously a more permanent solution and a lot of guys just simply go with electrical
tape, although that is not even the safest bet out there.
I definitely recommend those quick splice connectors, which we'll be using in the install
in just a second.
Now, we put our own S197 into the shop to get these installed so let's head over there
and get started.
First thing we're gonna do for the Raxiom fog light install is obviously uninstall our
factory ones.
So we're just gonna pop the hood, use a panel removal tool to remove the factory radiator
shroud.
Flathead screwdriver works too if you guys don't have one of these on deck.
So let's pop the hood, get that shroud off, and then we'll work on removing the upper
grille.
On both sides of the radiator shroud that we just pulled off, there's these little plastic
pieces that have a 10mm bolt holding them on.
Those are a little bit in the way.
They have to come off eventually so while we're under the hood, we might as well take
them off now.
There's one 10mm bolt on both sides.
To get the upper grille off a little bit easier, we're gonna pull that along with the front
bumper off altogether.
In order to get that front bumper off there's a couple of screws in each one of the front
wheel wells, so we'll rotate the wheel all the way to the right in order to get the screws
off of the left side, then we'll rotate it all the way to the left to do the same thing
for the right side.
So for this third screw here, you're gonna need a really, really stubby Philips head
screwdriver, in which case, you can leave that wheel straight.
But if you don't have one of these, you'll wanna rotate the wheels which I'll show in
just a second, to reach those first two.
So we actually found that it's a little easier to put the car in the air.
If you have jack stands, that works too.
We have a lift so it makes life a little easier.
If you have neither, you can work on the ground, it's just a little bit tighter to get the
wheel well out.
So what we're gonna do is pull this wheel well back and out of the way to expose three
of those bolts that are in holding the bumper down.
All right.
If you're anything like myself and you don't have any patience, you can grab yourself a
power tool, super long extension, and a 10mm socket, and you can work from the bottom here,
slip that 10 mil on and you're good.
Hit all three of these and you'll be good to take that front bumper off.
All right.
So underneath the car there's three bolts here.
These are really, really, really tiny.
These are like 5-1/2mm.
So once you get your socket, you can just kinda spin these bad boys off.
Next step, we're just gonna pull this bumper off with a partner, makes life a little easier.
Make sure that you're twisting out your parking light bulbs and disconnecting your harnesses
so they don't rip out with them, just a bunch of clips.
Next step in the process, once you have the grille attached to the bumper completely off
the vehicle, take a T20 torque spit and if you have power tools, again, makes your life
easier, if not ratchets work, and you're just gonna remove the four torque spits holding
on the factory fog lights to the grille.
There's four on both fog light.
Next step is to remove the fog light bracket from the factory fog light and just slip it
over to the Raxiom one, all you need is a flat head screwdriver and you pry off the
ends of these clips.
There's one clip on each side holding this onto the factory light.
From there that just comes straight off.
You can pick up your Raxiom light.
Make sure you're working with a driver side when you're working on the driver side not
to get those confused, and these will actually just slip right on over like that.
And from here, you can bolt these right back into the factory housing.
All right guys, since we already installed the Raxiom fog lights, we're gonna do some
wiring so it is a safe bet just to disconnect the negative terminal on your battery anytime
you do something with wiring.
So the first step, instead of actually installing the bumper and then working on your harness,
obviously that's gonna be a lot to work with with the bumper in the way, we're actually
disconnecting the Raxiom wiring harness to do it separately over here.
So what we're gonna have to do is cut the wires on the parking light harness to work
in the daytime running light halos.
So what we're gonna do is find our positive and our negative, which we have done.
Our brown wire here is our positive, black wire is obviously gonna be the negative.
We're gonna cut those in half, use a quick splice connector here to splice in our positive
and negative cables from on the Raxiom lights.
Once they're clamped down together, we can move on to the other side.
Step number one is we're gonna take our brown wire here as our positive from our parking
light harness.
I'm gonna cut that at about in half, so that's disconnected.
I'm gonna take my wire strippers, put this through here, there we go.
Strip off both sides.
Now, we're gonna take our red wire as our positive and twist these together, the live
open wires to the brown one on the parking light harness.
With these together, all we're gonna need to do is take our quick splice connector,
run one end all the way through, run our other end from the harness all the way through once
you have those connected together in the middle.
Next up, once we have our positive crimped together, all we have to do is cut our negative
in half and do the exact same thing for that side.
Just gonna strip as much wire as possible so we have a little more to work with.
Beautiful.
So now we have our Raxiom wire spliced into the factory parking light harness so this
daytime running light will come on with the factory parking lights.
All right.
Good to move over to the next side.
Now that our wiring is done on both sides, we used a method here that has quick splice
connectors with heat shrink in them.
What that basically means is it's kinda like a weather seal for the wiring.
Now, if you use a heat gun, you apply proper heat to the quick splice connectors, they
shrink up and provide a weather sealant.
Now, if you're using a different method or quick splice connectors that don't have heat
shrink involved, this is not necessary for you to do, but since we wanna seal that up
and we have the heat shrink, I'm gonna heat this thing up and get them sealed up.
Next step in the process, we're gonna put the entire bumper and grille assembly back
onto the vehicle, make sure all your wiring harnesses are out of the way, then we can
put these right back into their factory locations.
So with a helping hand, you can set the bumper into place.
You're gonna wanna peel off the 3M tape backing for that resistor pack.
You can stick it on to basically anywhere that you see fit that has a wide enough space
to fit this.
Directly to the side of the fog light has enough room there so I'm just gonna stick
that into place.
Now from there, you take your harness, plug in all your wiring, your fog light bulb connects
straight into the factory harness, and then you can put your parking light right back
into place.
Turn signal bulbs going right back in the same spot.
So now your parking light bulb, the one that we did all the splicing work too, will twist
right back into its factory housing.
Opposite side here, same deal, connecting our Raxiom harnesses together, the ones that
we spliced.
Factory fog light bulb is gonna plug right in as well, and then we're gonna peel off
that 3M tape backing and stick it right back in the same spot.
Turn signals go right back into their housing as well on the driver side and the same for
the parking lights that we spliced in earlier.
Next step in the process, to finish up putting the bumper on, the three screws that we took
off underneath the splitter.
So the last two pieces of the puzzle, we got the Mustang back on the ground, we're gonna
put the radiator shroud right after these plastic end trims.
Again, just a 10mm bolt that we took off in the very beginning.
We're gonna tighten that down on both sides, throw the shroud on top with the push pins,
and then we're good to go.
Last piece of the puzzle, top radiator shroud.
So these two-stage pins, there's one...it's kind like a plunger that goes into the bottom
piece.
You're gonna pull that plunger out, push the bottom piece into the hole on the radiator
shroud, and then push that top piece down.
There are six of these across the radiator shroud so we took that off in the very beginning,
these are just gonna pop right back on.
You can use your fingernails to pull that plunger out or if you have a flat head screwdriver,
that might make it easier for you.
All right.
Well, that just about wraps up this install.
So if you're the owner of an early S197 Mustang, you might wanna check out the Raxiom Smoked
Halo fog lights, which are available right here at americanmuscle.com.