Fog lights - an offense or just offensive?
Discussion
When they're used and it isn't foggy?
Is it the same for front and rears?
(picking up on the thread www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=14627)
Is it the same for front and rears?
(picking up on the thread www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=14627)
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Correct JSG. It applies equally to front and rear fog lights. However, front driving lights may be used in any conditions, but, must only come on when main beam is on and must switch off when reverting to dipped beam.
it's the other way round Kevin....Main beam blinds you when driving into fog
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Correct JSG. It applies equally to front and rear fog lights. However, front driving lights may be used in any conditions, but, must only come on when main beam is on and must switch off when reverting to dipped beam.
it's the other way round Kevin....Main beam blinds you when driving into fog
No, Kevins right. Front fog lights come on with dipped headlamps and can only be used in poor visibility. If the lamps are driving lamps rather than fog lamps they must be wired to only come on with main beam / switch off with dipped, they can then be used in any conditions to supplement main beam - but not in built up areas with streetlights etc...
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Front Fogs on = Bit of a flash git but probably keen driver and alert...
Rubbish! Front fogs on means a bolt-on boy in a Saxo who thinks his car looks cooler!
There's a lot of new cars now that cancel the front fogs when you switch the ignition off. This means they need to be manually switched on every time by the muppets!
Cheers.... Andrew
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Front Fogs on = Bit of a flash git but probably keen driver and alert...
What???
Front fogs on = Bit of a wa
er in my opinion. Probably the same person who thinks his Saxo/Clio/Polo/Metro can outgun my Chimaera and wants to prove it constantly in totally inappropriate places/conditions. These people really p*ss me off.
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There's a lot of new cars now that cancel the front fogs when you switch the ignition off. This means they need to be manually switched on every time by the muppets!
On my car when the headlights are turned off it automatically cancels the rear fogs but leaves the fronts on, which is odd.
And explains why I was getting flashed at for a weeks after I got it, until I figured out how the car actually works
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There's a lot of new cars now that cancel the front fogs when you switch the ignition off. This means they need to be manually switched on every time by the muppets!
On my car when the headlights are turned off it automatically cancels the rear fogs but leaves the fronts on, which is odd.
And explains why I was getting flashed at for a weeks after I got it, until I figured out how the car actually works
Ahah, that will be the Japanese one then?
I agree - peopl who use foglights inapporpriately are clueless muppets, but I've said it before and I'll say it again. In some cars - Nissans are a prime example - it's quite possible to inadvertanly have front fogs on.
Because:
i) They're activated by a slip ring on the indicator stalk. Not stiff enough & easy to actuate when using the indicators.
ii) When you turn headlights off, rear fogs are deavtivated, front are not.
iii) There's a light on the cluster for the rear fogs, but not the front.
Presumably JohnL, you find the same in your Primula? Or am I just a heavy handed twat?
Either way I'd not take kindly to being ticketed on account of a design fault which affects all Nissans of the same age as mine.
Because:
i) They're activated by a slip ring on the indicator stalk. Not stiff enough & easy to actuate when using the indicators.
ii) When you turn headlights off, rear fogs are deavtivated, front are not.
iii) There's a light on the cluster for the rear fogs, but not the front.
Presumably JohnL, you find the same in your Primula? Or am I just a heavy handed twat?
Either way I'd not take kindly to being ticketed on account of a design fault which affects all Nissans of the same age as mine.
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Presumably JohnL, you find the same in your Primula?
'Zackly, that's the issue, that's the cunningly designed car.
You'd think, either both manually off, or both automatically off with the headlights. But one and not the other? Bizarre.
Kevin, the Prim's theoretically British. The Jap Toyota is much better (both manually off - I think!). It's also got more legroom, I have to wear thin soled shoes to be comfortable in the Prim. Which is also odd as Japanese people are smaller than British on the whole.
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Kevin, the Prim's theoretically British. The Jap Toyota is much better (both manually off - I think!). It's also got more legroom, I have to wear thin soled shoes to be comfortable in the Prim. Which is also odd as Japanese people are smaller than British on the whole.
I suppose the question is 'who designed it this way' totally bizarre!
Whoa !! steady on Boys.. wasnt implying that using your front fogs was a good thing but every time i cpome across anyone with the back ones on they seem to be driving like a muppet and you get the feeling they probably been had em on since last they were checked at last MOT !! Its just my pet hate, thatsall
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