Please don't put your rear fog lights on when it's raining

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Well, after all that, I discovered tonight that the green "headlights on" lamp on my dash actually means "front fog lights, that you didn't even know that you had, are on" There is no "dipped headlights on" only "sidelights on"- right next to the aforementioned lamp.


Must have been on since I bought it



The DRLs get a lot brighter, which apparently is a "fog" light, although what difference it would make in fog when the reflected glare off my headlamps will be blinding me anyway I don't know
In The Olden Days, you could have a pair of low mounted fog lamps and no headlights and see a lot better, but they legislated against something as sensible as that.

AdrianC

facade wrote: »

In The Olden Days, you could have a pair of low mounted fog lamps and no headlights and see a lot better, but they legislated against something as sensible as that.

No, they didn't.

Styling and marketing said "That's not what we want"

Big difference.

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AdrianC wrote: »

No, they didn't.

Styling and marketing said "That's not what we want"

Big difference.

Once again you are right. The Road vehicle Lighting regulations 1989 part III reg. 25 (2) states that you can drive on just fog lights, provided they are a pair and within 400mm of the edges of the vehicle- which is exactly how they were originally intended to be used.



http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/regulation/25/made


(The 2017 amendment made no reference to reg 25)



I actually believed that line about "The use of dipped headlights in fog is compulsory" too- good job we havent had any thick fog here since 1980