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03-09-2007, 10:12 AM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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fog lights
random stupid complaint:
why does everybody drive with their fog lights on even in the city where there are street lights everywhere and no FOG!! Especially SUV's, they pull up behind me at a red light and I'm blinded in my side-view mirrors cause of all the light!!
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03-09-2007, 10:26 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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i'm telling yeah, i hate the bright lights so bad i'm gonna mount
some high beam brackets facing backwards on my roof rack...
with a push button switch to GET their attention...
when they see the flash of your rear view mirror getting cranked
skyward to keep from going blind they ought to gather a Hint...
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03-09-2007, 11:37 AM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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amen to that!
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03-09-2007, 12:41 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Hmmm--my fog lights aren't bright enough to blind an ant 
They're aimed at the ground about 20' in front of my grille--great for running the beach at night at 10 mph. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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03-09-2007, 01:57 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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To use foglights in any other situation than an emergency is illegal in Massachusetts. Headlights would have to have been unusable for whatever reason and the fog lights can only illuminate the road no higher than necessary to light the road 60' ahead of the vehicle thats using them. Which means they are supposed to be popinted pretty much downward. Its citable and a $35.00 fine.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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03-09-2007, 02:49 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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wow, a lot of people in MASS are breaking the law then.
I turn mine on if I'm on a dark road with no streetlights or something, but not when I'm just cruising around town and there's tons of other cars around to illluminate the road.
the main issue is the SUV's (and I'm not an anti-SUV liberal), but if the fogs are on, because the SUVs are higher off the ground, they point right in my side mirrors and blind me! Turn the damn things off unless you're on a super dark road or unless it's actually bad weather!!
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03-09-2007, 02:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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There's a difference between fog lights and driving lights.
I think you're referring to driving lights being so bright. They too, should be aimed downward similar to fog lights.
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The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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03-09-2007, 06:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Those blinders are driving lights. Made to illuminate a dark but empty highway. Just another example of equiptment installed on cool cars that the owners have no clue, nor want a clue, how to use.
I also love the jerks who flash highbeams to pass. You're in the fast lane doing 80, there's no where to go, and this dipsh** is flashing his lights. Oh goody, it's 45MPH o'clock!!  |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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03-09-2007, 07:05 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Reason for emergency only fog lights
is because when thier on the vehicle that is using them gives the same illumination to oncoming traffic as if the high beams are on. And failure to reduce high beams is also citable and obviously dangerous. So if you have your regular headlights on plus the fogs its gives a much higher and inappropriate amount of illumination. Now if you have your regular lights on high beam and the fog lights on, well nothing needs to be said.
Yes a large segment of the driving public are breaking "a law" if they drive around with the fogs on needlessly. I personelly have never stopped anyone for that but I know some guys who do. One of them wife was blinded one night and pulled to the right to let the oncoming vewhicle pass and she scrape a curb rupturing a tire and Old Gerry has been sticking it to the fog lights ever since.
It kind of surprises me in regard to the high number of people who do use them. You can turn them off easy enough. And its only one more thing that will need replacing.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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03-09-2007, 08:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 186
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I only ever use my regular lights unless I'm on the beach. Then I will use the fogs at night. I used to drive some pretty dark roads and I never use the high beams. I thing regular illumination is enough. It is for me anyway. My wife is high beam happy (that's not what I mean...lol)....She uses high beams in the driveway.
My Ford Expedition the fogs and the high beams cannot be on at the same time. I switch to the high beams the fogs shut off.
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03-10-2007, 02:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: some where on the water
Posts: 2,313
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Going back a good number of years, I use to own a KENWORTH K100. when I sold it I took off my driving lamps. there were 8" round an had louvers in them for directional adjustment!!! well I was sick of all the HIGH BEAMS comming at me. I put them on my personal truck.
(the wounders of youth.) now I just drive around an BLESS them all as they drive by.  Ill find a pic of that truck.
GOOD LUCK GOOD DRIVIN 
P.S. FOG LIGHTS are YELLOW
DRIVING LAMPS are WHITE
Last edited by saltydog; 03-10-2007 at 02:25 PM..
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03-10-2007, 05:00 PM
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end of the fence guy
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: tiverton ri
Posts: 749
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boat fish dont count
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03-10-2007, 11:14 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Quote:
Originally Posted by snake slinger
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Yeah, i luv it when they get those blue lights bouncing off your side view mirror into your cab on purpose.  |
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