Fog Lamps.....

Rouxenator said:
:D add to that their minds for failing to deduce the usage of these lights from their name.

Drive lights are for ......
Park lights are for .....
Fog lights are for .....

Questions like those are high grade for them.
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I believe all of those are on the driving test, so if you can't answer then you should't have a licence.

I actually know the real reason people drive with their lights on during the day, the are lazy. I have my lights on auto so if I even go under a bridge they come on.... its pretty annoying so now I try and check if they are on accidentally.
 
[Quattro];4864222 said:
There fixed it for you.

Seriously, do some of you drive go carts?
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You can't get more closer than head on.... perhaps you are the only one in your village with a car ?
 
No, the only reason is they want to look cool.

Yeah, foglights are as cool as wheelspin at a robot in a Ford Cortina.
 
I see as many poeple driving with parking lights on as fog lights. My mom will switch her parking lights on as the sun starts to set. She says so it's people behind her can see her in front of them. I told here there's no difference at the back between parking lights and dipped beams. She didn't even realise that! :eek:
I see hundreds of BM's and Audi's with their LED parking lights on in conjunction with fogs. Talk about a "fashion" statement. :rolleyes:
 
[Quattro];4863948 said:
Fog lights by European standards have to be a lower candle power to that of the low beams.
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Got a link for that? Most cars with foglights take 55W halogen globes, same as the 55W halogen globes used by headlights.
 
ok, so after reading all the posts here, i have come to the conclusion the folks who drive with their fogs on fall into the following (broad overview and generalisation)
- driving with them on makes them see the road better. imo if the fog light is adjusted correctly it only lights up about 3-5m in front of your car. so if you drive 70km/h which is roughly 20m/s (i think), that extra light, if you haven't seen the (enter whatever danger here), is not going to help diddly

- driving with them on so others can see you better. why not then drive with your hazards on, maybe even your interior light on as well, cause according to you, the more light the better.

- driving with the rear ones on, cause you didn't know where the switch is located. i think you are a moron, and should buy a basic car, with no extra switches so that it wont confuse you
 
enigma243 said:
I don't have much regard for legislation of any kind; my actions are not led by it as I do not base my decisions on how to act on a day-to-day basis on written law. I view myself as a fairly logically inclined person and as such, I will use my own subjective judgement in order to decide on my actions. This has served my quite well for my entire existence.
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That is such an awesome attitude to have. Now imagine if everyone did the same, the world would be such a wonderful, peaceful place.

Logic without reason? #epicfail
 
wizdumb said:
- driving with them on so others can see you better. why not then drive with your hazards on, maybe even your interior light on as well, cause according to you, the more light the better.
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Epic pwn4g3!!! :D

Tinfoil hats also make you more visible.
 
genetic said:
I see as many poeple driving with parking lights on as fog lights. My mom will switch her parking lights on as the sun starts to set. She says so it's people behind her can see her in front of them. I told here there's no difference at the back between parking lights and dipped beams. She didn't even realise that! :eek:
I see hundreds of BM's and Audi's with their LED parking lights on in conjunction with fogs. Talk about a "fashion" statement. :rolleyes:
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It actually does help in that situation. When I was driving down to CT the sun set in front of me and was blinding me. All cars appeared as black shadows except the cars that had their lights on.
 
It never used to bother me, till I saw this thread and then drove in overcast, drizzling, but fogless traffic this morning :(
 
So what do you think of the LED rims then? Very visible hey? Good news is that they are not against the law.
 
So, knowing that I'm likely to be flambéd by the frothing no-front-fog brigade :rolleyes: I am yet compelled to weigh in with my experiences with driving home last night on the wet roads after that wee cloudburst we had: of course just about EVERY ninny with front-fogs had 'em on and 1. in my rear-view mirror this is a total non-issue, which we expect.

Here's the thing though: on a variety of wet road surface TYPES (smoother (and therefore shinier) to coarser (etcetera)) an oncoming car with front-fogs on really wasn't that big of a deal ..and understand that I'm RABID about some ratbag blinding me out there! So, notwithstanding the legality 'discussion' around front-fogs, I'm not all that convinced that it's a battle worth fighting for; I'd MUCH rather we got wrongful rear-fogs usage sorted.

Hell, my (female) friend gave me all sorts of gears about lighting up the rear of the cretin that was blinding me with its tail-fogs earlier in the eve: I got told I stress over silly, unimportant things ..seeing as I was driving I was unable to roll my eyes at her. *sigh* But really, oncoming front-fogs are lots less of a menace than the numskulls out there with lights crazily point up at all sorts of bad angles; of course oncoming brights is just horrible, but we know that.
 
[Quattro];4872372 said:
Wattage has nothing to do with candle or Kelvin rating.
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Nothing at all? So identical halogen globes may not shed the same light?
 
LED rims are much better because they give you light at the sides of your car and you are more visible.
 
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