Rear fogs

[Thorburn]

I will concede that visibility today was close to 100 metres, but is it REALLY necessary to have your rear fog light on when you are driving nose to tail through traffic in town?

Some of them of retina scorching bright and I can see you just fine without them.....

[Gwagon111]

It's not as annoying as people having them on for no apparent reason whatsoever though. Or worse, having both front and rear fog lights on when it isn't foggy at all.

[ShiggyBiggs]

I generally only have to use my rear fogs when some tosser is sitting behind me with their front fogs on.

[grgrgray]

Topic done to death, no amount of moaning will stop these idiots.

Needs an information campaign to tell the lemming masses when to use fog lights.

[alfabetspagetti]

A quick rule of thumb follows

Front fog lights on + no fog = small penis

[Torquey]

To be fair, all I remember being tought when learning was only use it when visibility is less than 100m. That was in the theory, not by the instructor.

So unless you take time out to think about fog lights(!) or educated after your test then not many people will consider turning it off when in traffic.

[anonymous-user]

Text book drivers... no common sense...

Although not as bad as those muppets with only one front foglight working!

[grgrgray]

front fog lights?? Do you mean driving lights?

.....also, I was in a traffic queue last year when some local DJ explained to his willing listeners that they should turn their fog lights on as it was getting foggy. I saw 3 sets of fog lights switch on immediately. Muppets

Edited by grgrgray on Tuesday 7th December 09:35

[slomax]

Driving lights are different to fogs. Driving lights need to be wired up to the same switch as the full beams. You have the option of having a switch. They can either come on and go off on the same switch. Or they can be turned on while full beams are on, bit they have to automatically go off together. Fog lights are independantly controlled.

[Matt_N]

I had to endure double rear fogs last night on some Toyota SUV thing last night, visibility was down to about 500metres so I can see the need for them

[Gwagon111]

slomax said:

Driving lights are different to fogs. Driving lights need to be wired up to the same switch as the full beams. You have the option of having a switch. They can either come on and go off on the same switch. Or they can be turned on while full beams are on, bit they have to automatically go
off together. Fog lights are
independantly controlled.

This

[Chevykevv]

I thought they were called idiot lights?

It's so we can spot them further up the road.

[Thorburn]

Chevykevv said:

I thought they were called idiot lights?

It's so we can spot them further up the road.

I hope not, I used to use them quite a bit in Somerset, where the fog would close in to under 20 metres visibility in places they were invaluable, particularly the rear as meant you could actually see cars that had stopped or where travelling extremely slowly.

But around town when we can see 90 metres up the road, we're all doing 5mph, and I'm 10 metres behind the car in front its just an eye sore, literally.

[GKP]

It's bright sunshine around here. I think I'm going to switch my foglights on just to see if I can generate an internet whinge.

[SystemParanoia]

my biggest hate about fog, is not the people that put them on in traffic etc.... its those same people that LEAVE them on for the next 3 fecking weeks and never bother to turn them off again ARAGH!

[volvoforlife]

I don't mind front fogs but rear fogs are bit bright because they are almost at eye level.

With the amount of LEDs being packed into cars, just wait until the LED DRLs make their way to the rear....

[LuS1fer]

Yep, the seconrd the MIST rolls in, on they go. How they think you need them on a totally lit dual carriageway which is nose to tail beggars belief and behind a BMW 3 series yesterday, the combination of fog and triple LED brake lights was ridiculous.

The only satisfaction I got was thinking he probably didn't know that BMW are so cheapskate that they only fit one rear foglight so HA!

As for the morons with front fogs on - words fail me.

[Chevykevv]

Thorburn said:

Chevykevv said:

I thought they were called idiot lights?

It's so we can spot them further up the road.

I hope not, I used to use them quite a bit in Somerset, where the fog would close in to under 20 metres visibility in places they were invaluable, particularly the rear as meant you could actually see cars that had stopped or where travelling extremely slowly.

But around town when we can see 90 metres up the road, we're all doing 5mph, and I'm 10 metres behind the car in front its just an eye sore, literally.

When It's foggy no problem, but this morning visibility must have been 600 metres or more & dozen of people had their idiot lights on.

[blueg33]

I had 4 hours of that yesterday! Personally I turn mine off if someone is close

With some cars the fog lights make brake lights almost invisible.

Edited by blueg33 on Tuesday 7th December 11:35