Sidelights and foglights - where's the logic?
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I saw two people on my drive in to work this morning (so really quite dark) with sidelights and foglights, neither were going slowly. I can't understand why people would do this - I did a little experiment when I got to work and the thrown light by actual headlights was much better! (Fairly obvious really). The fact that they were going quite quick they must be outdriving their own lights fairly easily!
I am aware that the old school of thought was that in foggy conditions it was better to have light (theoretically) below the fog - in fact in my old Triumph when the headlight switch was turned to fog the headlights would go out.
Any reason at all apart from they're just idiots?
I am aware that the old school of thought was that in foggy conditions it was better to have light (theoretically) below the fog - in fact in my old Triumph when the headlight switch was turned to fog the headlights would go out.
Any reason at all apart from they're just idiots?
Glosphil said:
Were the lights you saw fog lights or DRLs?
The DRLs on my Leon are surprising bright. Bright enough to drive around an unlit large car park, but not to drive at road speed.
Hasn't stopped morons I've seen driving along the motorway on just DRLs, totally invisible from the back apart from reflectors, and (presumably) they think their lights are on because of 'always on' dashboards!The DRLs on my Leon are surprising bright. Bright enough to drive around an unlit large car park, but not to drive at road speed.
disad-vantage-d said:
This brings to mind a trend we've noticed with Nissan Juke drivers who seem insistent on driving around at night in perfectly normal weather conditions with THREE sets of lights (including fogs) constantly illuminated. Why???
I see a lot of this, all lights lit up.I used to drive my MX5 around sometimes with just sidelights and lower driving lights in urban areas as it was a good enough light but that was because it was a mk1 with the pop up headlights when you put dipped lights on.
Back in the 90s I used to drive around like this in my Cavalier SRi. Not because I thought it looked cool, but because of a short in the headlight switch which caused the starter motor to operate when the headlights were on! Party piece was starting the car by turning the headlights on. Then I fixed it.
Red9zero said:
A chap who used to work in our office did this on his old E30 BMW 3 series. When I asked him why, he said it made the car look lower 
You should have blown his mind some more by suggesting he fold down the back seats to lower the centre of gravity, when cornering. All the cool kids in the Maccy Ds car park were doing it.
Tommo87 said:
Red9zero said:
A chap who used to work in our office did this on his old E30 BMW 3 series. When I asked him why, he said it made the car look lower
You should have blown his mind some more by suggesting he fold down the back seats to lower the centre of gravity, when cornering. All the cool kids in the Maccy Ds car park were doing it.
RSTurboPaul said:
Glosphil said:
Were the lights you saw fog lights or DRLs?
The DRLs on my Leon are surprising bright. Bright enough to drive around an unlit large car park, but not to drive at road speed.
Hasn't stopped morons I've seen driving along the motorway on just DRLs, totally invisible from the back apart from reflectors, and (presumably) they think their lights are on because of 'always on' dashboards!The DRLs on my Leon are surprising bright. Bright enough to drive around an unlit large car park, but not to drive at road speed.
Triumph Man said:
I saw two people on my drive in to work this morning (so really quite dark) with sidelights and foglights, neither were going slowly. I can't understand why people would do this - I did a little experiment when I got to work and the thrown light by actual headlights was much better! (Fairly obvious really). The fact that they were going quite quick they must be outdriving their own lights fairly easily!
I am aware that the old school of thought was that in foggy conditions it was better to have light (theoretically) below the fog - in fact in my old Triumph when the headlight switch was turned to fog the headlights would go out.
Any reason at all apart from they're just idiots?
Forgottrn to turn them off, hardly a haning offence, better than driving with no lighys on.I am aware that the old school of thought was that in foggy conditions it was better to have light (theoretically) below the fog - in fact in my old Triumph when the headlight switch was turned to fog the headlights would go out.
Any reason at all apart from they're just idiots?
Either that orthey do it on purpose to give some PH members some to moan about
Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 5th February 11:44
lancslad58 said:
Triumph Man said:
I saw two people on my drive in to work this morning (so really quite dark) with sidelights and foglights, neither were going slowly. I can't understand why people would do this - I did a little experiment when I got to work and the thrown light by actual headlights was much better! (Fairly obvious really). The fact that they were going quite quick they must be outdriving their own lights fairly easily!
I am aware that the old school of thought was that in foggy conditions it was better to have light (theoretically) below the fog - in fact in my old Triumph when the headlight switch was turned to fog the headlights would go out.
Any reason at all apart from they're just idiots?
Forgottrn to turn them off, hardly a hanginging offence, better than driving with no lighys onI am aware that the old school of thought was that in foggy conditions it was better to have light (theoretically) below the fog - in fact in my old Triumph when the headlight switch was turned to fog the headlights would go out.
Any reason at all apart from they're just idiots?
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