Foglights - a lost cause

Do foglights have any use with todays advanced headlights? I don't have any on my car and just slow down. Are they just an accessory?
 
I think that yes, people are absolute knobs for driving with them on for no reason. I also think people are knobs for getting so wound up about it.

Yes some fogs are bright but the majority are not blinding. Im not buying that eye sensitivity claptrap Fox, some are bright, others aren't. The majority are no more bright than headlights, and we don't moan about them all the time.

For the record, i've used my front fogs about three times in the 2-3 years ive had the car. Once was to test them after I replaced a damaged one.
 
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Seriously though, I only ever use the fogs when country lane blasting at night, they do give a marked improvement in visibility in this situation, always get knocked off with the main beam for oncoming traffic though. Driving in lit up urban areas with fogs on makes you looks like a tard.
 
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Seriously though, I only ever use the fogs when country lane blasting at night, they do give a marked improvement in visibility in this situation, always get knocked off with the main beam for oncoming traffic though. Driving in lit up urban areas with fogs on makes you looks like a tard.
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In Pug 205's they are wired so they only come on with the main beam. It does make a difference on dark country lanes, but then the bulbs are 60W. I'm sure they would be blinding if they were wired like the fogs on most cars...
 
Don't worry Fox, you can rest assured that the "Professional" drivers such as I don't use Fogs....

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I had to use my front fogs yesterday as it was foggy! but turned them off as soon as it wasnt.

I had a x reg fiesta courtesy car the other day and the fog lights gave off more light than the actual head lights!
 
I can honestly say I have never once been dazzled by oncoming front fogs.

I am frequently blinded my eyeball-melting HIDs in my rear view... they bounce all over the place and with the different intensities of brightness at different angles are very distracting and *really* blinding in a 4x4 at a cars length from my rear bumper! :mad:
 
This whole problem is why seperate switches for front and rear fogs need to be banned. The switch for mine activates both front and rear, and thus i would look like a right tit having them on with no fog as id have 2 great big rear red beasts on the whole time.
 
Driving a low slung car, I can no longer count the number of near accidents I've had due to people blinding me with a full on portable sun coming towards me. If it wasn't for me knowing pretty much all the roads around here I would probably have crashed by now. Fog lights are bad enough for me but no where near as bad as a footballer's wife coming towards you in a Range Rover with HIDs AND fog lights. Sometimes when I am blinded by oncoming cars with badly tuned or misused front lighting I will "count in my head" for how long I am blinded and hence how long my car is "out of control" as it were. Sometimes I have counted as high as 5 seconds. Shocking.

The other month I was trying to pull into a side turning. But unfortunately for me there was a Range Rover waiting to pull out of that same side turning and it was literally impossible to see ANYTHING to the right hand side of my car. I had to just wait for the car to go before I could think about making the turn.

Fogs can be touch and go whether they blind. Some cars have rather dim fogs, whether because they're meant to be or just because they're covered in mud I don't know. But other can be just as piercing to the eye as a halogen on main beam.

People sometimes defend fogs by saying "they are no brighter than a headlight". Well that MAY be the case... but still it means there is TWICE the amount of light being output by that car. 4 lights instead of 2... That is a MASSIVE difference for an oncoming car to deal with.

It winds people up because decent drivers just don't understand the logic behind it. Why inconvenience oncoming drivers (no matter how small or non-existant amount) just because you have a fettish for looking "cool"? Everyone knows fog lights don't improve night time driving.

Then there is the whole confusion between "driving lights" and "fog lights". Let's clear this up once and for all. A driving light LOOKS like a fog light but it can only be turned on by putting your main beams on. Hence they aren't fog lights because they can't be controlled seperately. A fog light can always be controlled seperately. That is of course ignoring the debatable and largely irrelevant subject of how the light unit itself is constructed in terms of beam patterns.
 
It's much harder to judge how far away a car is in my rearview mirror when they have their fogs on, especially on the motorway.
 
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