Quote: posted by unikarl on 03/12/2004 11:47:23
Quote: posted by tylerama on 03/12/2004 11:42:38
Quote: posted by 02 Bora on 03/12/2004 11:37:18
i must admit i had mine on for about 5 mins this morning, through some patchy mist/fog, but i turned them off once i was through it. I never use mine if i am following another car.
No offense, but I don't understand why people use rear fogs in rain [?], fog lights are for fog.
"No offense, but I don't understand why people use rear fogs in rain [?], fog lights are for fog." -
Cos they do not have the capacity to differentiate between rain and fog like a normal person can. - Just don't think to themselves "If I put these on in rain, are they gonna dazzle anyone unnecessarily ?" Sad, isn't it ?
I put my rears on in bad rain on the motorway. Visibilty is drastically reduced and people dont seem to realise that speed needs reducing too. Whats fog? Its particles of water, exactly the same as the mist thrown up by the back of my car. So am I doing something terrible by making people see me sooner on a fast moving road with reduced visibility? No. We may call them fog lights but they are intended to be used when visibility is reduced which is EXACTLY what I use them for.
I can completely understand use in bad, heavy rain or when visibility is very much reduced.. as you say, exactly what they are meant for. It's the folks with perfect visibility who have them on for no reason that gets my goat.
If visibility is really bad and needs extra warning of a car in front, of course they should be used. A good example is last night driving home past the runway of the local airport, so obviously a long very straight road, no rain, perfectly clear visibility, slightly damp maybe, but the amount of people with fogs on... probably every fourth or fifth car !? Just unnecessary, imo. [

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