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Rear fog lights...
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It was foggy this morning. In some parts of my trip today, visibility was down to about thirty yards at most.Don't know about you guys, but I don't really recall when it was last foggy in this country. A heavy mist perhaps, but fog.... no.
If one needs fog lights one should not be able to drive more than 30mph maximum due to said fog, if your able to do 90mph down the motorway it's not really "foggy" is it.
I don't call lit a fog light switch it's a "Wan%er Switch"The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Why didn't you pay attention to the one on your dashboard?
Wasn't this on an i10?
I'm pretty sure that these cars don't have a warning light on the dash. The switch is an electronic toggle (so when you switch the lights off the fog goes with it) but the indicator is a small amber-coloured LED on the switch itself, which is indeed placed on the dash below the steering wheel.
Not the best piece of design in the world, and missable in fairness.0 -
I think it is actually February.paddedjohn wrote: »Any car made after April 2011 (IT MAY BE MARCH) has to have lights fitted that automatically turn on with the ignition, even during the brightest summers day.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Because they tend to save lives. Quite a good reason really.Please tell me you're joking? those daytime runnin lights that audi have annoy me more than fog lights... whats the point of them? i can see your up my !!!! enough already without you having a row lights lighting up a glorious sunny day...The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Sadly, I have to say that is is probably true, in a great many cases.Strider590 wrote: »What's this all about then?
People don't leave rear fogs on deliberately, they're just the same folk who drive about in the dark with no lights on and drive 45 mph EVERYWHERE.... They have tunnel vision that is literraly a small area of the windscreen, they never look at the dash, they are incompetent and CANNOT be saved.
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The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
From what I can remember, dashboard mounted light warning lamps have been mandatory since the mid-nineteen nineties.Wasn't this on an i10?
I'm pretty sure that these cars don't have a warning light on the dash. The switch is an electronic toggle (so when you switch the lights off the fog goes with it) but the indicator is a small amber-coloured LED on the switch itself, which is indeed placed on the dash below the steering wheel.
Not the best piece of design in the world, and missable in fairness.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Yes indeed, but they don't specify where on the dash.
My Mitsubishi is the same. I've have to search for the foglight switch on the two occasions I've ever used it (I know where it is but it's so unintuitive that you find yourself fingering all over the left-side of the lower dash), and when switched on a limp little green light illuminates, which is only visible if you look around the steering wheel.
I'd personally be in favour of a system that switches itself off once the car hits 30mph, and bongs once every 5 seconds, continuously, when the light is on.0 -
Butthat will just stop people from using them at all.Yes indeed, but they don't specify where on the dash.
My Mitsubishi is the same. I've have to search for the foglight switch on the two occasions I've ever used it, and when switched on a limp little green light illuminates, which is only visible if you look around the steering wheel.
I'd personally be in favour of a system that switches itself off once the car hits 30mph, and bongs once every 5 seconds, continuously, when the light is on.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
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