Foglight Morons

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Yes chaps, its what you've all been waiting for, OcUK 'People with foglights suck' Thread Number 34!

Now, I used to think people who had foglights on when it wasn't foggy did so becuase they were stupid chavs who thought it made their car look cool. Generally, every time you saw such a car, it was a crappy ricemobile with a stupid spoiler.

But these last few months, it's been different. It seems a growing number of normal, every day motorists see it get dark and think...

'OMG ***!!! IT BE DARK!! TURN EVERY LIGHT SWITCH IN THE ENTIRE CAR ON, QUICK!' and on go the foglights. I've even started to see BUSES with front foglights on in totally clear conditions, and there are just as many reps in Mondeos, mothers in Clios and old people in Yaris Versos driving around with their foglights on just becuase it's gone a bit dusky.

Why are these people so stupid?

I nearly got out of my car to knock on the window of the car I met coming down a single track hill who had to reverse out of my way to say TURN YOUR GOD DAMN FOGLIGHT OFF I CANNOT SEE A THING.

 

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/noob question

You mean the spots on the bottom of the car?

Yes.

I use them sometimes, the headlights on my pug are rubbish so when its an unlit road ill use them ocassionally.

Well don't, they are foglights. They dont give you any extra light anyway, just make the area right in front of your car brighter, you get no increased viewing range.

Turn them off. You blind some people coming towards you.

 

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because they're unobservant.
they turn them on when they actually needed to then didn't realise they were still on when they weren't needed.
their mind was probably on something more important like this weeks neighbours sub-plot or at what point would they "deal or no deal"

I used to think that was the case but dont agree now. Prior to the recent fog bout this was as much a problem as ever, yet we had had no fog here for weeks.

They really do actually turn them on in clear conditions.

Almost as ridiculous at people who think that just becuase a foglight doesnt personally blind them, it must have course be the same for everyone..

 

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It depends on the type of foglight, some cars have small ones, others larger ones.

Nothing is more distracting when you are driving down a road at night and suddenly out of the distance comes a car with all the lights he can possibly find blaring right at you.

 

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hey illuminate the sides of the roads very well

Correction, they illuminate the side of the road immediatly in front of your car only - which is nowhere near as useful as it sounds becuase by the time whatever you may want to avoid has been nicely let up by your stupid foglights you are in no position to avoid it anyway.

 

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Correction, If you are driving too fast for the road conditions then yes I somewhat agree....But in my case I was driving under the speed limit incase any wildlife were out playing chicken at 11pm.

Its the case if you are doing anything more than 20mph. They are useless, your headlights, especially if you have Xenons, are miles more effective. Maybe not as bright but you can still see everything.

 

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But then all headlights will occasionally glare, especially if the car is coming over the brow of a hill or similar. People just notice it more from Xenons becuase they are cool to hate at the moment.

 

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so they do what they say "on the tin"?

and that needed to be posted here why exactly?

He is deriding the reduction of traffic officers over the years as the shift from emphasis on most motoring offences to that of speeding has taken place, and cameras have become of greater focus than traffic police. This therefore means that whilst you are now many times more likely to be nicked for speeding, you are far less likely to be picked up for driving like a tard or having your fogligths on.

But you knew that, you just wanted to stir up the whole speeding thing

 

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I genuinely don't understand how you are getting dazzled by peoples foglights.

90% of them are small, at the bottom of the car bumper and pointed firmly towards the road. Do you have dinner plate sized sensitive eyes? Or drive around an area populated with cars fitted with Light bars?

It's not all foglights, some of them, for example the smaller ones on Minis or Mondeo ST24's, are not an issue. But some are absolutely huge - take the fogs on the front of a 406 for example. They are enormous, and very bright. Meet one coming the other way on a dark country lane and it really is an annoyance.

And outside of cities, we have roads with 'gradients'. This means those foglights actually point all over the place depending on whether the car has just crested a small hill or whatever..

Perhaps its the fact that its cool to hate fog lights that makes you hate them so much.

Ah yes my mistake. I don't get blinded at all, I just pretend I do becuase this makes me cool