Tips

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Thought a small tip thread could be handy.

I'll start with two that I used extensively last night:

At night I tend to drive in the middle of the road when there are likely to be deer about, and there aren't road users to be scared by my unusual positioning. Alternatively, if there is a forest on the left and nothing much to the right I might be fully on the other side of the road. If you're a naughty boy then you might find front foglights handy as the beam is much wider and so likely to "light up" the eyes of animals further from the road better than your other lights.

To overtake "dippies" at night, you can usually manouever safely into their blind spot on the vision you have with dipped beam. At this point give full beam and then decide if the overtake is on.

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SVS said:

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If you're a naughty boy then you might find front foglights handy as the beam is much wider and so likely to "light up" the eyes of animals further from the road better than your other lights.

This is how I've been very dangerously dazzled in the past

Rather than use your fog light, you could upgrading your headlight bulbs to something like Philips Vision Plus. The whiter light will help seeing animals, etc.

I don't even have front fogs... In any case it's not the brightness of the bulbs so much as the spread of the beam.