Fog light rant

[ZAP]

I drive with mine on often. Only parkers and DRIVING LIGHTS. It wakes up the mass of morons that drive half asleep on our roads. I would rather be seen than hit by some looser changing lanes without looking.

If you notice cars with their lights on then it is working.

I would doubt that you would be dazzled by these lights in the middle of the day.

[Cro]

Must admit, blueprint looks quite good in the dark.

Don't forget to read this thread mate

http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10953

[GlennAUII]

Must admit, blueprint looks quite good in the dark.

what are you on about! it looks good all the time!

[KEN 24T]

Must admit, blueprint looks quite good in the dark.

yeh, the darker the better ...

:holiday:

[Falchoon]

I'm ashamed to say there is another Venom T in the same suburb as me that drives around with foggies on all the time.

Zap - they are FOG lights, not driving lights, only supposed to be used when FOGGY or other low viability situation (such as smoke or heavy rain). In most it is an offence states (apart from being damn annoying) to have them on when these conditions are not present. Fog lights are much more visually annoying than headlights. Fog lights DO NOT improve your visibility over a distance of more than 3 meters in front of the car, great for finding road markings in fog, not so great for spotting wildlife 500m up the road. Driving lights are wired to come on with high beam only, foggies will work on low and high beam.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/con...rr210/s215.html

215 Using lights when driving at night or in hazardous weather conditions

(3) Also, a driver driving during the day in fog, or other hazardous weather conditions causing reduced visibility, may drive without the headlights of the driver’s vehicle operating if the vehicle is fitted with front fog lights and those lights are operating effectively and are clearly visible.

Note subsection (3) regarding fog light only operation in 'fog' or 'hazardous weather' only. Doesn't say anything about it being acceptable to drive with fog lights on in broad daylight or clear nights.

VT-VX Commodores seem to be the worst, they really dazzle you. The BA XRs aren't too bad, it's more just an annoyance than a danger. Some of the soft-roaders (yes Glenn, Rav4s! :holiday: ) are bad too because they are higher off the ground than 'normal' cars therefore the light shines nearly at eye level, especially when you look at them in the mirror as they are behind you at the traffic lights.

[Trumpy]

[plonky]

Fog lights, additional lights and neons seem to be used with gay abandon down in Sydney.

I've notice this since coming back from over the Mountain.

Just means I get more tickets that's all !

[Cro]

Last night driving back from Bega was a bad one...

All these dickheads with their foggies on really piss me off

One lane each way, so there is no escaping them.

I just can't wait to get me nudge bar + spotties. Wire em up along with the foggies, the oncomming dickhead will have 8 lights glaring at them

[jetute]

my pet hate too but no offence in Qld,

are you sure... I was pulled over for having them on at night time... did not get fined but was told to turn them off... so off they went

[Guest Scootre]

my pet hate too but no offence in Qld, they are driving lights not fog lghts, if they were yellow, then Its game on

That's the way they should be described - yellow for fog, clear for driving.

In the Ford manual, though, they are described as fog lights. It'd be interesting if someone in Qld had an accident because they were apparently blinded by an oncoming car with these lights on and then the victim challeneged the law because the car manual said they were fog lights.