Why do people have fog lights on?

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04 January 2011, 09:09 PM

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didnt you know if you drive with your fogs on all the time it give you 50 extra BHP lol

it is one of my pet hates

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04 January 2011, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Turbohot

LOL that's a good one, Andy. I will have to try switching the rear ones occasionally for the blinding ones. Rear foggies must be more effective than going effing-effing to them from my driving seat, which they can't hear, anyway.

lol.

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04 January 2011, 10:26 PM

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Maybe they have cataracts

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04 January 2011, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by lozgti1

As for front fogs....people seem to think they are 'snow lamps 'for some reason just lately.

Actually fog lamps can help visibilty in 'falling' snow because of the low and wide beam spread as opposed to main beam which can get reflected back ( at the driver ) by the snow.

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Originally Posted by lozgti1

Oh,and if anyone has actually got front fog lights that do do anything beyond a yard I'd be interested

complete waste of time apart from at 2 mph

I know that you can't easily do this with modern cars but if you do alot of rural driving, particularly down narrow lanes and stuff, turning the fog lights outwards helps picking up verges etc.. ( also helps when turning at junctions

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05 January 2011, 01:23 AM

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I tend to use my side and foglights in daylight hours to make my car a little more visible to all the clueless feckwits round here who got their licences from cornflakes packets

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05 January 2011, 01:26 AM

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I have a poverty spec Golf...it has no front fog lamps, I think they drain too much current for the 3.2 litre engine to cope.

(Ironically, most "real" poverty spec Golfs do have front fogs

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05 January 2011, 03:20 AM

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Out of interest why does the WRX have front fogs when the STI doesn't?

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05 January 2011, 08:41 AM

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Out of interest why does the WRX have front fogs when the STI doesn't?

Because the WRX is a proper drivers driving car, the STi is but an imitation of the original.

All in my un-bias opinion of course.

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05 January 2011, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by CrisPDuk

I tend to use my side and foglights in daylight hours to make my car a little more visible to all the clueless feckwits round here who got their licences from cornflakes packets

What the hell is wrong with using dipped headlights?!

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05 January 2011, 01:42 PM

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Its only because they are fitted and any excuse to use them is good enough. They are only legally allowed to be used in conditions of poor visibility anyway.

You feel like asking them what else they got for Christmas!

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