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[TW]Fox;12884616 said:
I drove past a BMW the other day that had Angel eye foglights. I lol'd, hard.
As a side note, I tink it's annoying when I see front fogs used all the time, but not because they blind me or anything. I just see someone with front foglights on and think "****".
I actually find HIDs far more irritating.
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I've got beef with exceptionally powerful high level brake lights.
Tends to be in big auto 4x4s, they sit on the brake at lights, which is fair enough, but on a lot of bigger cars they're right at my eye level on the bike, and that coupled with it being dark and me having winter crap on my visor, I can't see nuffin'!
It's not the end of the world because obviously I'm stopped at lights, so I'm in no danger, but it gives me brainache!
Tends to be in big auto 4x4s, they sit on the brake at lights, which is fair enough, but on a lot of bigger cars they're right at my eye level on the bike, and that coupled with it being dark and me having winter crap on my visor, I can't see nuffin'!
It's not the end of the world because obviously I'm stopped at lights, so I'm in no danger, but it gives me brainache!
recent volvos have these, and they are blinding. my mum once got asked to take her foot off the brake by the person behind in a queue once :/
regarding fogs (abroad), i've found that in norway most cars have the fogs wired up to the (compulsory) day-running lights. however, this hasn't stopped plebs re-wiring so that they run around on sidelights and fogs during the day
I'll have to admit, I resorted to using my fog lights tonight, in non-foggy conditions.In my defence, one of my dipped beam stopped working as I was leaving from work and, being the GENIUS i am, i had left the spare bulb set at home. Clever eh!?!
Someone already thought of this before you
BMW cars will use front or rear fogs (in dim mode) if one of the main bulbs or light units fail!
I assume other cars do this too but I only know the above form reading it in the manual when I got the car ^_^
Whether they do dazzle or not please tell me, if it isn't foggy, what is the ******* point?
Can't say I've ever had this problem either! Altho sadly my car doesn't have front fogs, so I can't flash them at offenders anymore
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I just give them a quick flash with my own foglights to let them know that theirs are on.
There's a guy round the corner who has his on all the time and everytime I see him, I flash him. He probably thinks I know him
There's a guy round the corner who has his on all the time and everytime I see him, I flash him. He probably thinks I know him
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they are handy when driving on unlit roads at night
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.
[TW]Fox;12882069 said:
On my Fiesta, when you turn on full beam, the dipped bulbs go out, this leaves a pool of darkness immediately in front of the car and when the roads very up and down, that makes it slightly unnerving at times, so I use my fogs in that instance, as soon as I hit the main road I turn them off however.
I had the same issue on my Focus until I bought Osram Nightbreakers. They seem to put more light down in the deadzone right in front of the car when using full beam.
i don't do it myself, but i don't actually see the problem with it. It doesn't blind anyone, it doesn't affect you, anyone who gets so irritated by someone just using something not in the manner it was designed - like wearing a cap backwards - needs some help.
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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.
Is inappropriate usage of lights against the highway code?
When you can answer the above you will see why some people get annoyed.
Once again, just because it doesn't affect you, why assume it affects no one else?
They produce omni directional light whereas your dipped beams produce a focused beam. I strongly suspect any gain in lighting you get from the fogs is very very small or a placebo.
It is good however that you turn them off and presumably treat them the same as main beam. At least you care about other road users
PS: I bet if you google around you'll find a wiring mod to fix that bug in your Fiesta's lighting system. Many cars from the 90's were like that for some reason. Can often be fixed by splicing two wires together in the dash somewhere...
They produce omni directional light whereas your dipped beams produce a focused beam. I strongly suspect any gain in lighting you get from the fogs is very very small or a placebo.
It is good however that you turn them off and presumably treat them the same as main beam. At least you care about other road users
PS: I bet if you google around you'll find a wiring mod to fix that bug in your Fiesta's lighting system. Many cars from the 90's were like that for some reason. Can often be fixed by splicing two wires together in the dash somewhere...
It's not strictly speaking a bug. It's because the bulb is an H4 dual filament type. So one filament is for full beam, the other for dipped. You probably could wire them so they both came on at once....I can achieve the same in my Focus by holding the stalk flasher to light both filaments, but I imagine there would be some heat issues with having two filaments in one bulb lit for long periods of time which might damage the bulb or seriously shorten it's life span.