Does anyone know what bulb size the foglights use? I want to replace the bulbs with yellow ones. I think the HIDs and yellow fogs is a nice combination. Kinda like the Lexus cars.

Thanks

It might be in the manual.

If it's the same as the CTS, the number is 9145. That's not a bad idea. I don't like using my fogs because the light looks cheap in comparison to the Xenon (not that you need them with HIDs anyway, I don't see much difference with them on or off). Yellow would be interesting.

I know this post is a little old, but I'd like to update everyone on my foglights. The manual states to use 9145 bulbs for the foglights, but you can use the cheaper and more readily available 9005 bulbs without a problem.

Anyways, I've been using these "yellow" bulbs now for about 6 months but they don't seem as yellow as I wanted. I recently found a place that sells 9005 yellow bulb capsules that I can permanantly install and used regular bulbs for a deep yellow color without having to buy expensive yellow bulbs everytime they burn out. Here are the results:
Here are the capsules:
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs01.jpg

Here they are installed:
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs02.jpg

Pics:
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs03.jpg
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs04.jpg
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs05.jpg


I like them alot. Especially since it's been foggy/rainy here in Austin for the last couple days :thumbsup:

I like the look. How about some more info on the capsules? How much? Where did you get them? Model#? Etc...............

I read a while back in a post that it's a mojor pain in the A** to get at the bulbs. How long did it take you?

I like the look. How about some more info on the capsules? How much? Where did you get them? Model#? Etc...............

I read a while back in a post that it's a mojor pain in the A** to get at the bulbs. How long did it take you?

I got the capsules from www.hidtech.com for $37 bux shipped. I got the 9005 application. It took me around 4 hours to install them because it involves carefully drilling into your reflectors. I found out it's a lot easier to access the foglights when you remove the whole front bumper, unlike my first attempt. :banghead:

You had to remove the front bumper? Wow, Now that's a great design for you eh what? Apparently the SRX engineer never heard the S word SERVICEABILITY.

Thanks for the info. Taking the bumper off to change bulbs doesn't make a lot of sense and I would think it would've been pretty easy to design the lights for easy bulb replacement. On the other hand, of all the cars I've owned over the years I have rarely ever had to change a bulb.

I guess Cadillacs thinking is why make something easy to service that might only need to be serviced maybe once in the life of the car. I'm not disargeeing with you "MACK" It shouldn't be that difficult but nobody said life would be easy.

I guess it's not as easy as we all think it is to design a car "Everyone" thinks is perfect in every way. The designers don't have the luxury of making thousands of cars and giving the vehicle to thousands of people for their review and then make the changes and release the car.

I give credit where credit is due. I think Cadillac did a hell of a job overall with this car. Anyone can be a Monday morning quarterback and say they should've done this or should've done that. It's easy to do. My opinion is biased because I have not had any major problems with my car. "Knock on wood"

Sorry bout that. I didn't men to appear to be whining about life being easy. l

Let's try this another way. You paid for this poor design in your purchase price. When a warrantied product is priced, the cost of the product warranty is calculated, uplifted and applied to the product price.

The warranty price is arrived at by doing a failure point analysis. The anlysis should be accomplished by looking at failure rates of all components, determining cost to repair, adjust or replace as required (labor, parts, tools, etc).

Somewher in the calculation is the number 0f times that a warranteed vehicle will have a burned out bulb. That is translated to a failure rate that can be expressed in number of failures per vehicle. That failure rate per vehicle is multiplied by the cost for however many hours of labor required, uplifted, and inserted into the new car purchase price along with all of the other average events.

Granted, it's not a big number for just the bulbs, but think about how it adds up when you see design engineers do this. I still remember pulling all of the sheet metal screws behind the left front wheel to get at the master cylinder on a 1955 Olds. That's when it became obvious that the only thing design engioneers got under their fingers was clay.

Now, where did I find this soapbox?

Let's try this another way. You paid for this poor design in your purchase price. When a warrantied product is priced, the cost of the product warranty is calculated, uplifted and applied to the product price.

The warranty price is arrived at by doing a failure point analysis. The anlysis should be accomplished by looking at failure rates of all components, determining cost to repair, adjust or replace as required (labor, parts, tools, etc).

Somewher in the calculation is the number 0f times that a warranteed vehicle will have a burned out bulb. That is translated to a failure rate that can be expressed in number of failures per vehicle. That failure rate per vehicle is multiplied by the cost for however many hours of labor required, uplifted, and inserted into the new car purchase price along with all of the other average events.

Granted, it's not a big number for just the bulbs, but think about how it adds up when you see design engineers do this. I still remember pulling all of the sheet metal screws behind the left front wheel to get at the master cylinder on a 1955 Olds. That's when it became obvious that the only thing design engioneers got under their fingers was clay.

Now, where did I find this soapbox?

So in your explaination, you are saying that they actually took the time to figure out how long it would take to change the bulb under warranty (In this case) and add that cost to the price of the car?

I guess I can buy that but I have a hard time believing that someone would "intentionally" design a car knowing that it will be very hard to work on if a warranty item needed replacing and add that cost to the price of the vehicle and price their car out of the market.

I believe some things are just plain overlooked.

I used to do exactly the type of procedure I described to build the warranty and service cost on computers. I have read an overview of essentially the same process as used in the automotive industry.

You have to know failure rates before you can decide how many spare parts to build for new build and how many you will need for repair work. You have to know how long it takes to repair/adjust something so you can trade off the labor intensive cost to repair vs the parts intensive cost of replacing something.

You should use the same information to price out extended warranties.

The bulb is but one small example of how the cost would be derived. I can just bet that they never anticipted what fixing the creaking sun roof was going to cost.

I'l bet they never figured on having to re-align front fenders on some SRXes. In fact, Cadillac should probably be grateful that most people who have misaligned front fenders don't even know it or are used to accepting shoddy work.

I'm not trying to say the bulb example is a big deal, but when a car if full of such examples of poor serviceability it adds up.

I know this post is a little old, but I'd like to update everyone on my foglights. The manual states to use 9145 bulbs for the foglights, but you can use the cheaper and more readily available 9005 bulbs without a problem.

Anyways, I've been using these "yellow" bulbs now for about 6 months but they don't seem as yellow as I wanted. I recently found a place that sells 9005 yellow bulb capsules that I can permanantly install and used regular bulbs for a deep yellow color without having to buy expensive yellow bulbs everytime they burn out. Here are the results:
Here are the capsules:
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs01.jpg

Here they are installed:
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs02.jpg

Pics:
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs03.jpg
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs04.jpg
http://home.austin.rr.com/vdo/pics/misc/srx_fogs05.jpg


I like them alot. Especially since it's been foggy/rainy here in Austin for the last couple days :thumbsup:


HI! :bouncy: Thanks so much for sharing the great pix and data! I too avid my fog lights because they llok cheap compared to my HID headlites! If I have the patience I'll try to get to the fog bulbs! Thanks again for the great detective work! P.S. I agree when they price a product they guesstimate all warranty work and put it in the price! Sometimes they win..........

I was looking at changing my fogs light and high beams. Has anyone found a easyway to do this? I was looking under the bumper and was wondering if you could just reomve some of the black covering.