It's a fix for a cost-engineered light circuit.
Raise the bridge or lower the water - rather than hacking the wiring to support a mis-applied load, I'd rather keep an otherwise serviceable OEM system intact, and lower the load w/LED fogs (note that LEDs for our application(s) are getting brighter every year now). Less cost, less work, cleaner/fewer new points of failure down the road.
I think the stock fog lights are more cosmetic than they are functional. Brighter filament bulbs don't fix the problem and risk frying the plastic housings. Purpose-built fogs (
where its more about aiming than simple output) don't readily fit the holes and look out of place on the sleek front regardless of where they're mounted. I thought about using them as DRLs, but went with thin LED strips instead, which are on their own switched circuit and don't carry a load requiring a relay.
So, if the intent, is to
upgrade the fogs themselves and simply throw more light, the solution is to always place them on their own balanced circuit, as God intended... or, go a different direction entirely.
I've installed countless fog lights on big and small, service rigs to my own rides, but today I find a forward-facing camera with night vision to be a much more advantageous approach. Just like LED bulbs, the tech has changed and given us more options over what we used to do to make our drive safer.
Ken