Ok so I'm going to add fogs to project Cobalt. I'm seeing 3 choices.

1. Lightning air dam and fogs in holes, but my truck is lifted, not sure of the look.

2. Fogs in the holes in the bumper cutouts.

3. Official Ford accessory kit, that a guy wants to sell me NOS.



What do you guys think?

 

I vote putting them in the bumper cutouts, it's the cleanest look IMO.

Plus no drilling is required

 

X2 Thats where mine are, I just don't have a picture of them.. One other plus, you can't ask for much better protection!!

 

I think the in bumper is the cleanest setup, but I went with OEM lights above the bumper, and I think they look great. No complaints on functionality or quality of the parts in the kit.

I put a set of cheap driving lights underneath the bumper of my 88 with no valence. Worked just fine, but looked silly and I was constantly worried about them getting damaged although they never did.

 

OP, I like the looks of the ones in the bumper cutouts better.

Do you just cut part of the trim off the bumper to install these lights? Are they fog and or driving lights?

 

Those bumpers came with the cutouts from the factory. They were introduced sometime late in the generation; something like '95 or '96.

 

There is a center divider piece of plastic in each main hole. You just cut the center divider out.

 

I used Hella 550 Fog Lights.
And I actually did not have to cut/trim anything, I just bolted them to an existing hole in the bumper directly under the cutouts.

 

In the bumper cutouts is certainly the cleanest look. But personally I like on top of the bumper. It's a throw-back look that I like (it was really popular in the '70s when I was a teenage kid hoping I'd be able to have my own truck some day). And I think it allows for better functionality of fog lights. The benefit to fog lights is the wide beam they throw. Stick them back behind the bumper and you cut off a lot of the pattern spread. And you can't aim them out like I like to do to get even more benefit of the spread (even pointed out as far as these are, they still overlap in the center, and they really light up the whole road, ditch-to-ditch).

 

I too used Hella 550 fog lights in the bumper cutouts. I just hung them behind the split divider since I didn't want to cut the plastic. On an 85 we had them mounted on top of the bumper.