Foglight idiots - please explain why you have them on when it's crystal clear?

SailorSam

I was reading a recycling website the other day looking for ideas to use old CDs. One guy posted to say he attached them to the grill of his car and then the idiots who drive with blinding lights on all the time would realise how uncomfortable it is for other drivers when they got the reflection back.

dibuzz

Idiophreak wrote: »

2) Women, whose husbands put the fog lights on once over the winter (when it was foggy ) and haven't noticed they've been on ever since - and wouldn't know how to turn them off even if they did notice.

I am a woman.
I know where my fog lights are and when to use them thank you.
I also do not have a husband to mess about with my controls but would certainly notice if I had and he did.

Strider590

SailorSam wrote: »

I was reading a recycling website the other day looking for ideas to use old CDs. One guy posted to say he attached them to the grill of his car and then the idiots who drive with blinding lights on all the time would realise how uncomfortable it is for other drivers when they got the reflection back.

:rotfl:

Wouldn't work

Just like with a mirror, it has to be pointed directly at you.

Idiophreak

dibuzz wrote: »

I am a woman.
I know where my fog lights are and when to use them thank you.
I also do not have a husband to mess about with my controls but would certainly notice if I had and he did.

Lol, wondered how long that would take...I write "there are women that do something" and you read "all women do something".

Calm down, sweetheart...

Retrogamer

A few times i've had people driving behind me on unlit back roads with main beams and front fog lights both on. It can be annoying in the mirror. The irony in it is, when i put my rear fog light on to try and hint for them to turn theirs off, they get offended and start blasting their full beam. Morons.

Joe_Horner

Weird_Nev wrote: »

There are fog lights and there are driving lights.

Drviing lights are absolutely fine to have on, because they do not dazzle other road users.

Fog lights are not fine because they are wide-field lights and DO dazzle other drivers.

I drive with my driving lights on, because it makes my Pajero look wikked. If it dazzles you, then you should have worked harder and bought a bigger car.

Nope.

Fog lights have a beam cut-off 3 degrees below horizontal (Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations 1989 Schedule 6 Regulation 4) so they're effectively pointing into the ground about 10 metres in front of the car. There are no electrical connection requirements, so they can be switched entirely independently of other lights. You can only have 2 of them unless your car was made before 1991.

When adjusted properly, the only people they might dazzle are anyone who's lying in the road in front of your car. The fact that they're often not adjusted properly is another matter - it's a C&U offence to have them misadjusted but they're not part of the MOT, which is the only time most people worry about their lights.

Driving lights have no cut-off and are classed as an "optional main beam". They must be wired to switch off when you dip your lights (Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations 1989 Schedule 1 Part II) . You can have as many as you like, as log as they all extinguish when you dip your lights. When they're on they'll dazzle exactly the same as any other main beam.

Strider590

Retrogamer wrote: »

A few times i've had people driving behind me on unlit back roads with main beams and front fog lights both on. It can be annoying in the mirror. The irony in it is, when i put my rear fog light on to try and hint for them to turn theirs off, they get offended and start blasting their full beam. Morons.

Huh? :huh:

Retrogamer

Strider590 wrote: »

Huh? :huh:

Main beam is the modern term for dipped beam.
Full beam is the modern term for high beam.

Edit: maybe i'm wrong - but that's what i meant by the above

mattyprice4004

Weird_Nev wrote: »

There are fog lights and there are driving lights.

Drviing lights are absolutely fine to have on, because they do not dazzle other road users.

Fog lights are not fine because they are wide-field lights and DO dazzle other drivers.

I drive with my driving lights on, because it makes my Pajero look wikked. If it dazzles you, then you should have worked harder and bought a bigger car.

So, as per the post above, do yours conform to that description of driving lights or are you a foglight moron? If they don't come on automatically, do you have to press a button that has a suspiciously fog-looking picture on it?

I also struggle to understard how a Pajero can look 'wikked', especially with moron lights turned on. There are much better cars to work hard for.

aileth

There are lot of 'boi racerz' around here who have them on. All the cars I've had you've had to have headlights on before you can turn fogs on, yet these laddos don't have headlights on, just fogs. They are most certainly not DRLs. Have they seriously rewired things to do that? daft.