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Agree, except for the myth about blinding traffic.
Posted by Aaron Gilbert [Email] (more from Aaron Gilbert) on Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:36:13
In Reply to: Re: Fog lights mostly useless decoration or???, mike TX
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, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:04:14
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If a fog light was so oriented or possesed such a beam pattern that it blinded oncoming traffic, it would be of absolutely no use as a fog light!
By definition, a fog light has a very wide beam with no, or extremely little output above a line parallel to the ground and even with the top of the light housing. Since fog lights are mounted BELOW the main headlights (almost all manufacturers get this right!), their entire output will be underneath the main headlight low beam. If your fog lights are blinding oncoming traffic, they are aimed improperly, or have a beam pattern such that they can't realistically be called fog lights.
I find my fog lights useful in very thick fog, or heavy snow, but otherwise mostly decoration. In extremely thick fog, even the main headlight low beams reflect too much back, and the lower you can get the light output, the better. I encountered fog so thick going over a particular mountain pass a couple years ago, that visibility was about 20 feet. If I hadn't had fog lights, I would have needed to go about half as fast as I was going, which was already well below the speed limit of 35 mph.
Aaron Gilbert
1987 9000T 281k miles
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Posts in this Thread:
- Fog lights mostly useless decoration or???, Mike Lynch
, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:02:44- OEM Fogs = Decoration, Trev, Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:52:31
- @nite in rain non-lit GA 2 lane blacktop=priceless nm, Dave S
, Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:25:22 - I use it when there is fog ! ! !, Claude Denis, Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:21:22
- E-Code lights much better than fogs >, ChipJ, Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:45:17
- Re: Fog lights mostly useless decoration or???, mike TX
, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:04:14 - Minor useful, light up ditches for dodging deer, spot, DER, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:17:42
- I use them at night to light the road up better., KB88900T, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:10:01
- Re: Fog lights mostly useless decoration or???, Tony Basile, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:50:18
- As a city driver I say the same of hi beams..., Randy Thatcher
, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:22:57 - Re: Fog lights mostly useless decoration or???, GM, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:06:11
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