I'm No Mechanic.

[jpmck03]

toy_toronto, congrats! Looks good, and your Yaris is a bit cleaner than mine. Mine needs a bath big time!

Oh, and your picture inspired me to finish the other side of my debadge! No more "Yaris"; smooth as a baby's bottom!

Revsson, the steering wheel was surprisingly easy to pull off, and the only big issue I had was getting the original stalk off. The main difficulty was that I was going about it with kid gloves. Finally, I said "to hell with this" and gave it a good tug with one hand while the other was holding the metal retaining clap open with pliers in the other.

Seriously, slow and steady, and it's pretty simple to do. I took my sweet time and the whole thing took maybe 3 hours, if that. But, I did have some help from CTScott! Video Help!

[jpmck03]

Billiam, I used the fogs and wiring harness from Garm's kit on MicroImage. I then bought the shrouds / covers / bezels / whatever you want to call 'em and the switch from my dealer. Everything looks OEM, and I can't be any happier!

My advice (for what it's worth) Revsson, just go with what you are comfortable with, and with whatever achieves your desired endstate. For me, I wanted it to look and act as close to OEM as possible, so I went with the fog light stalk. Sure there are other ways to install them, but that's the route that I thought would work best for me.

Regardless of how you want to do it, there are some great people here that'd be able to help you out!

[MadMax]

Fear not, I did mine on my much-beloved month-old Yaris back in November 2008 and it had me angst'd out!

Here is my new Yaris with its nose ripped off...



I am used to Jeeps where you can fix a lot of the problems with a hammer and duct tape (kinda like Russian Army rifles!), and I am a bit ham-fisted in the first place (I was an aircraft maintenance analyst when I was enlisted in the USAF, but I didn't wrench on many jets).

Personally, I don't mind the mechanic stuff as much as I do the electrical. My fogs are wired up to my fuse box, and have worked perfectly for the past 18 months. I love that I can run them with my parking lights, but they go off when I don't have any lights on. They do a great job lighting up the road immediately in front of the car, and of course the extra visibility helps especially with the brain-dead drivers in this town!

Congrats on getting this mod done, I think it is one of the best ones that can be done on the car. A Yaris looks like it's missing something when it doesn't have fogs...

Cheers! M2

[jpmck03]

I just went downstairs, opened the garage door and turned on the head and fog lights.

Woo, they are bright!

Even if they aren't being used when it's foggy out, they seem like they'd be real good to just stand out a little more on the highway! You know, maybe make the Yaris a little less invisible in a sea of huge SUVs.

[jpmck03]

It's rainy and a little hazy out and the new fogs worked wonderfully!