Thread: Let's have a general discussion on fog lights

Originally Posted by manic

Ah, I was hoping yellow light penetrated dust/fog a little better and reflected less due to longer wavelength.

Reflected yellow light should be easier on the eyes compared to the blue/white. I run stone cold LEDs, so I like the idea of having a pair of yellow halogen even if just for the contrast.

The colour will be a lot nicer on your eyes for certain.

I have mixed hids and leds and headlights with std and upgraded globes, and found that different colours are just a negative. Not a big one in that case, but when i realised the hids werent adding anything and took them off, the leds were just unadulterated pleasure. And when a mob that did some work to my car somehow blew my upgraded headlight globes and replaced them with std, the dimmer yellower light doesnt go as well with the leds.

After 3 years ownership I have only just noticed that I have a rear fog light switch fitted to my D2a, All this does is to illuminate the brake lights.
I think I have turned my front fog lights on twice since I have owned the truck, once to see if and how they worked and once because of fog.
Using them as driving/spot lights is a completely useless option and pointless as the spread is limited closer to the truck than the low beams are and we all know how useless low beam is for spotting roos or anything else on the road at speed.
Anyone who wants/needs extra illumination needs to upgrade the headlight globes or add spots/lightbars which are fitted so that they extinguish when low beam is selected and stop wasting their time and dazzling people with their fog lights.
Fog light are for FOG Driving lights are for DRIVING, Pretty simple really

Originally Posted by austastar

Nope!

Jewelery for that.

Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

Nope!

Jewelery for that.

Cheers

Tom Waits did a song "Diamonds on my windshield". Could be the one for you.

Originally Posted by Eevo

i keep mine on 24/7
the more im seen, the safer i am.
the law needs to wake up the 21st century

Then you wont mind if i hit my Cibies at you so im easier to see also.

Originally Posted by Greggy

But the point is that fog light are NOT driving lights - they are considerably lower powered than low beam and not aimed up into the sky, so what's the problem?

The problem is some of them are basically the same wattage as low beam headlights and you then have 4 headlights in the same area as 2. Twice as much light in some cases and especially bad in the wet when you also have reflection.

Living in Qld where we do NOT have annual RWC's checks vehicles which have had accident damage quite often leave panel shops after a cursory check,2 headlights low OK,2 on High OK, get it out of here where as when I was living in NSW,annual RWC including headlight focusing, I wonder how many single vehicle accidents could be attributed to light glare

cheers