Tips

[Retard]

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.

[SVS]

Retard said:

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.

[Retard]

SVS said:

Retard said:

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.

[Hooli]

Retard said:

SVS said:

Retard said:

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.

i presume Retard ment on empty country roads. ive used foglights for similar reasons in the past, turn them off with oncomming traffic too - infact on that car i rewired them to work with mainbeam as they were so handy like that.
the car had a twin headlight conversion when i got it & the beam pattern was very narrow so you couldnt see the verges properly on just headlights, brightness wasnt a problem at all.

[Flintstone]

Retard said:

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

Given that any front foglights I've seen are lucky to illuminate anything more than 20 feet away I wouldn't have thought this helps much?

[RT106]

Retard said:

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.

As someone said above, I've never been in a car with OE foglamps that provide useful illumination in any condition. They're good at illuminating the verge about eighteen inches in front of the car, but that's no use to anyone.

Retard said:

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.

How can you tell where their blind spot is, surely everyone has their mirrors set differently?

[Festisio]

By the time the poxy beam of a foglight lights up an animals eyes, it will be embedded in your grill 0.1 seconds later.

[Hooli]

RT106 said:

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Retard said:

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.

How can you tell where their blind spot is, surely everyone has their mirrors set differently?

if they are happy to drive in the dark on dipped beams then their blindspot is ANYWHERE outside their car.

[Retard2]

RT106 said:

As someone said above, I've never been in a car with OE foglamps that provide useful illumination in any condition. They're good at illuminating the verge about eighteen inches in front of the car, but that's no use to anyone.

Don't need much illumination to see eyes at night. Hence "cat's eyes".

RT106 said:

Retard said:

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.

How can you tell where their blind spot is, surely everyone has their mirrors set differently?

Get your headlights a few inches in front of their rear wheels, that's close enough...

[BOF]

""Don't need much illumination to see eyes at night. Hence "cat's eyes".""

I recall reading about the man who invented cats eyes after seeing a cat walk towards him...they reckon that, if the cat had been walking away from him he would have invented pencil sharpeners...

BOF.