Fog Lights in rain

[Ian 1800]

Drove in some very heavy rain on the M1 this afternoon. Why is it that numpties still doing 70+ think that they need their rear fog lights on? Get the same in fog, if it's safe enough to drive at more than 70 you don't need your fog lights on.

Drives me nuts.

Rant over.

[Troubleatmill]

Nope. Never seen it happen, apart from in that Alan Partridge movie.

Some folks aren't as switched on as the rest of the populous, just take a deep breadth and continue with the journey.

You will be happier and your blood pressure lower.

[Jasandjules]

Rain, sunshine, night time.... Fogs can be on, especially around here.

[delboy735]

Happens here all the time....especially in the rain. Seems to be the norm for the elderly generation.
If I ever need to use the rear fogs, as soon as I can see headlights behind me, I switch them off until I can't see the lights again.

[Ved]

I'll see your fog lights and raise you the div in the MX5 who only had his side lights on today on the M1. You weren't in the monsoon going north before J10 were you?

Edited by Ved on Saturday 25th January 22:19

[Hairy Bob]

Personally I would like it if cars would automatically turn their fog lights off if they hit over 50mph.

[Ian 1800]

Another monsoon and thunder storm around j24.

[Stuartggray]

An old friend of mine used to put his main beams on behind the foglighters. His thought was if they were going to blind him, he'd blind them back.

[Fleckers]

I had a row with miss attitude in Croydon this evening in her merc

Rear fog blazing away, shouted at her when alongside at lights and other that the mouth back her reason was its dark and she wants people to see her

She Los had front fogs on

[mph999]

Hairy Bob said:

Personally I would like it if cars would automatically turn their fog lights off if they hit over 50mph.

Now that... is a very good idea.

It amazes me the fact that people have such low intellegence that they can't work ot, or be considererate enought to turn them off when they can see a car behind them.

[Jasandjules]

Hairy Bob said:

Personally I would like it if cars would automatically turn their fog lights off if they hit over 50mph.

I have, many times, been overtaken by people doing 60 plus in thick fog.

[k-ink]

Yesterday, empty motorway, raining, gimp in lane three at 70 with fog lights on. Shocker.

[Ved]

Stuartggray said:

An old friend of mine used to put his main beams on behind the foglighters. His thought was if they were going to blind him, he'd blind them back.

Genuis. Two blind people in cars.

[RenesisEvo]

Getting deja vu here with another thread...

Friday just gone, M40, heavy rain, appalling spray, visibility less than 100 metres. Much less at times. Several people had their fog lights on. I had no problem with it at all. I should add none of them were doing excessive speed (that I could determine and in my opinion).

I find it hard to criticise anyone who has assessed the conditions for themselves, and decided it might make themselves more visible to other road users to use fog lights. The highway code doesn't say fog lights are only for fog, only that they must be off when visibility is better than 100m. Nothing wrong with trying to make yourself visible in such poor conditions in my opinion.

Of course if it's clear and they're still on, that's a different story - they're not an excuse for going faster or sitting closer to the car in front. The coefficient of grip of a road doesn't change according to how many lights you have on.

[Sensibleboy]

Fog lights in rain is awful for the person behind. The rain hits the windscreen and you have a million bright red dots across the screen. Not nice.
If you can see normal rear lights in bad visibility then fog lights are unnecessary.

[r129sl]

What people don't seem to appreciate is that in rain or at night, their fog lights make their brake lights harder to see. Thus they in fact endanger themselves. Their fog lights also dominate the vision of the following motorist, making it harder for him to see other cars.

[A900ss]

Hairy Bob said:

Personally I would like it if cars would automatically turn their fog lights off if they hit over 50mph.

Nope disagree.

A speed limiter should be put in place when the fogs are on and the limiter stays on until the fogs are switched off.

The people who drive with fogs on won't work it out and they'll be stuck to 50MPH.

[jmorgan]

Better training. Aint going to happen any day soon.

[richwig83]

Moronic idiots. There has only been a handful of cases in my driving life where fog lights have been needed. Most clowns drive around with their front ones on (with just sidelights for full moron mode) and have not worked out that they've put the rear on too. Morons.

[jmorgan]

Problem with people using fog lights in the fog, the idiots are probably driving too fast anyway. No overall understanding.