they are handy when driving on unlit roads at night
[TW]Fox;12887436 said:As I explained, no they are not. Use your brain. Fogs illuminate a small area directly in front and to the side of your car far closer to your car than the reach of the normal headlights.
Therefore they are lighting up areas of the road so close to your car that, at speeds of 30+, you will have insufficient time to react to ANYTHING that shows up in your foglights yet not your headlights, making it completely and utterly pointless.
Come on guys, do the maths. If you suddenly spot something at the side of the road 1 metre from your car travelling at 60mph you are going to hit it and were driving too close to the side of the road anyway. No amount of foglights are going to change this.
yes, but even so, they still help.
i now live in the middle of nowhere and drive most of the time in the dark on empty unlit country roads, so i drive with main beam on most of the time anyway
but even so, the fog lights do help, even if only a little bit.
i agree that they only illuminate stuff that's by the side of the road and you probably couldn't do anything to avoid it, but even so, it is useful to see the side of the road, especially as the roads i drove along are quite narrow, thus helping to see where the tarmic ends and the ditch starts
say what you like, but there is a reason why everyone here drives with both main beam and fogs when it's dark. if you have them, use them. there's no harm in having more light
do go on.. tell me how/why it affects you?Once again, just because it doesn't affect you, why assume it affects no one else?
Is wearing a cap backwards against any sort of law?
Is inappropriate usage of lights against the highway code?
When you can answer the above you will see why some people get annoyed.
One thing I did notice when on holiday in Spain a few week back, my bros hire car switched the fogs on when he turned tightly, not like 3 point turn tight but just round country lanes, it switched only the one fog light at a time, which was the side he was turning. Now I thought this was good, but only if it did it under 10 mph so limiting it to car parking or similar not at the 40 mph he was doing. Odd.
i've never been blinded by fog lights. i get blinded by people with badly adjusted or chaved up lights though.
to the above poster: you actually endanger people on the roads with your actions. very sad!
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[TW]Fox;12888679 said:I don't get blinded by foglights but it is irritating when a car sat opposite you at the lights is burning your retinas out with foglights for no real reason. Some cars have HUGE fogs as well, hello Peugeot 406.
to the above poster: you actually endanger people on the roads with your actions. very sad!
People who have foglights yet don't use them when its actually foggy?!
If you can't beat them... join them! That's what I did. Dipped beam HIDs now...So basically, everyone should get Xenon headlights
wow, what a great attitude to have.I don't care. They endangered me first.
why are there seperate switches for front and rear fogs? obviously if you need them they should both come on? Or is this just my car?
yes, but even so, they still help.
i now live in the middle of nowhere and drive most of the time in the dark on empty unlit country roads, so i drive with main beam on most of the time anyway
but even so, the fog lights do help, even if only a little bit.
i agree that they only illuminate stuff that's by the side of the road and you probably couldn't do anything to avoid it, but even so, it is useful to see the side of the road, especially as the roads i drove along are quite narrow, thus helping to see where the tarmic ends and the ditch starts
say what you like, but there is a reason why everyone here drives with both main beam and fogs when it's dark. if you have them, use them. there's no harm in having more light
Moorron said:It got to me last year, so much that now when I see an oncoming car with the fogs on I give them a full beam from me (not just a flash) to let them know I can also be selfish too and improve my view at the expense of blinding everyone else. This is coming from a range rover with 3 pair of addition spot lights (2 sets above cab). I still don’t think they get the point tho and yes I agree with one of the other posters here that its just a way for my to ID the real poor drivers out there.
IIRC only one foglight on the back should be made available on UK cars is that right ? I checked mine when I got the car to make sure all the lights work and the rear foglights come on on both sides so maybe the old owner did some DIY to light both of them ?