What is with the fog light craze in this country?

[Captain Kilowatt]

Seems to be some confusion between whats fog lights and driving lights.
I know the vernacular and laws are different here.Fog lights are pointed low and are low range lights they can be used anytime day or night and present no problem .

I have also noticed an increase in fog lights fitted .Nearly all mid range Jap and Euro vehicles come fitted as standard.

Driving lights or "spotties" have always been popular with rural drivers in particular.
They are illegal to use in built up areas ,or when deemed as not required.
Put your driving lights on in fog and the reflection off the water particles will blind you.

kangaroos are a big problem in rural Australia , they tend to feed on the green grass alongside the highway when it's dry.( This is Australia it's dry most of the time) Roos are easily started and often bound towards traffic instead of away from it . A good pair of driving lights helps to avoid collisions , and are considered as mandatory equipment in some part of Australia.

Same as the laws here in most parts of Canada.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Do yall mean those light bars that go al the across of the cab of a pick up?
There is a shit load of them here in south texas!!!

No. Talking about the round lights either fitted as OEM or as after-market lights like this.

 

[dave457]

Biggest idiots around here are the ones who drive with there super brite blue lights, blinds you on a two way road, those shits should be outlawed

 

[Mudfoot]

People used to know how to properly aim their lights, but few even know they can be. I replaced my factory fogs with two LED lights. I have them pointing down a little. I've never been flashed with them on. They turn off automatically with high beams.

 

[StrangeBrew]

People used to know how to properly aim their lights, but few even know they can be. ....

I think this is the biggest problem around here (Joisey). The only ones that bother me are ones that were obviously modified but the way they're aimed seems to be a bigger problem than the brightness, I've often wondered if these people just don't know that adjusting them is something you need to do. They just take out the old ones, slap the new ones in and call it done.

I have the factory lights in my 2010 F150, not sure if they're fog or driving lights though. One of these days I'll have to turn them on and see what the pattern looks like.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

[QUOTE="StrangeBrew, post: 567907, member: 21357"

I have the factory lights in my 2010 F150, not sure if they're fog or driving lights though. One of these days I'll have to turn them on and see what the pattern looks like.[/QUOTE]

I'd say that probably 99% of the factory OEM lights are fog lights.

 

[StrangeBrew]

Yeah they're fogs, just joking that I never turn them on. They've probably seen less than two minutes of use since the truck was new.

I never really needed extra lights. I drive for a living working nights and the truck I drive has daytime running lights, the parking lights stay on while delivering and quite often I don't realize I haven't turned on the headlights until I get back to the terminal and turn them off.

 

[Mudfoot]

My factory fogs were basically useless, I could hardly tell if they were even on.

 

[psycho]

My factory fogs were basically useless, I could hardly tell if they were even on.

I was under the impression that fog lights are to help your vehicle be seen by other drivers in fog. In my previous truck I used the fog lights maybe twice in ten years.
I hate driving at night because that is when all the crazies, stoners, and drunks are out.

 

[RatsoW8]

kangaroos are a big problem in rural Australia , they tend to feed on the green grass alongside the highway when it's dry.( This is Australia it's dry most of the time) Roos are easily started and often bound towards traffic instead of away from it . A good pair of driving lights helps to avoid collisions , and are considered as mandatory equipment in some part of Australia.

Bloody roos!...I've always wanted to use that phrase in a conversation

 

[Road Squawker]

Bloody roos!...I've always wanted to use that phrase in a conversation

lights don't save you,............. you need a ROO BAR

 

[psycho]

That Ben Franklin was ahead of his time.



"Most internet quotes are neither original nor correct" B. Franklin

 

[vkrules]

lights don't save you,............. you need a ROO BAR

And a Shu roo (like a dog whistle that fits on the front of the car).

 

[Mudfoot]

http://www.ehow.com/about_5038551_purpose-fog-lights.html

 

[vkrules]

Actually the driving lights help a lot ! You adjust them so they are lighting up the verge as well as forward.Not only do you see the roos earlier but it seems to help keep them off the road.