"I've always hated the blanks on the front of the car where the fog lights go"
given the above and the fact that even if wired up you will probably never use them (legally)why don't you just mount them but not bother wiring them? Wife's xantia has fog lights, she has owned the car for 4 years, we live in the foggy midlands yet I can never recall switching them on!!.
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Phil
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given the above and the fact that even if wired up you will probably never use them (legally)why don't you just mount them but not bother wiring them?
I did think about that, but if I recall correctly, they've got to work in order to pass the MOT.
I certainly would never drive with fog lights on in non-foggy weather, but living in rural Cheshire it is noticeable in fog that cars with front fogs on are visible slightly earlier. This could be valuable in avoiding people pulling out in front of you.
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I'm not sure but from
www.motuk.co.uk/mot_testing.htm
No mention of front fogs
"What items are examined in the MOT test?
Lighting Equipment, Stop Lamps, Reflectors, and Direction Indicators
Front and rear position lamps, rear registration plate lamps, rear fog lamps
Headlamps
Stoplamps
Rear reflectors
Direction indicators and hazard warning devices
Headlamp aim "
I take your point about visibility but how often is visibility less than 100m?
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Phil
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front fog lights are not tested in the mot
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front fog lights are not tested in the mot
Thanks. Weird that - I was always under the impression that any auxiliary lighting had to be fitted according to the rules and had to work.
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BP, ignore all the moanies here, wire them up and use them to your hearts content. Look cool man.
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Seems to me that running with foglights alone makes a car more visible without causing the distracting dazzle of running with the headlights on.
HJ
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You could wire them through the ignition switch, so that they are on all the time the engine is running.
I mean, you don't want to look out of place - do you?
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Seems to me that running with foglights alone makes a car more visible without causing the distracting dazzle of running with the headlights on. HJ
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In my experience they cause more glare - especially in the wet when, if set correctly, the light is refected back of the road straight at oncoming drivers.
They should only be used when the fog/snow is so thick that the reflected glare from your own headlights prevents you seeing anythng - the fog lamps are then intended to show you where the kerb is so you can crawl along at 15-20 mph. If you can do 30 you don't need fog lights.
BTW I have experienced these conditions twice in 30 years of driving - once in fog, once in snow. Unfortunately I experience uncessary glare from foglights far more!
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>> Seems to me that running with foglights alone makes a car >> more visible without causing the distracting dazzle of running with the >> headlights on. >> >> HJ
They should only be used when the fog/snow is so thick that the reflected glare from your own headlights prevents you seeing anythng - the fog lamps are then intended to show you where the kerb is so you can crawl along at 15-20 mph. If you can do 30 you don't need fog lights.
I haven't driven a car for years where the foglights illuminated the kerb to any useful extent. However, I have sat at the exit to our village on to its fast bypass road, and (in fog) you see the front fogs of approaching cars slightly earlier than you do the same car's headlamps.
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I agree, don't bother wiring them up. Just consider them to be 'styling punctuation'.
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Can we get back on subject with any information on how to wire them up, rather than yet another discussion on the virtues of whether fog lights look cool, blind other road users when used in non foggy conditions - etc.
DD.
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Phil round 'ere people only turn them on the once . Then they're left on permanently.
I call it the Clarkson effect.
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