Fog lights/ high & low beam for 2006?
Rookie
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 90
Likes: 0
From: SW Colorado
RE: Fog lights/ high & low beam for 2006?
ORIGINAL: Critter7r
I may get flamed for this one, but it's pointless (and illegal here in MI) to have fogs and hi beams on at the same time. Fog lights are for driving in (duh!) fog. High beams are not. High beams in fog make you blind. So, the two of them are not meant to be used together. I KNOW!!! And you're right!! If you're responsible with your high beams you won't completely blind the person coming toward you. But come on, everybody forgets once in a while that they're driving with their brights on, we've all done it.....
I may get flamed for this one, but it's pointless (and illegal here in MI) to have fogs and hi beams on at the same time. Fog lights are for driving in (duh!) fog. High beams are not. High beams in fog make you blind. So, the two of them are not meant to be used together. I KNOW!!! And you're right!! If you're responsible with your high beams you won't completely blind the person coming toward you. But come on, everybody forgets once in a while that they're driving with their brights on, we've all done it.....
Captain
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 623
Likes: 0
From:
RE: Fog lights/ high & low beam for 2006?
I have seen a lifted Silverado driving with Fogs headlamps and another set of lights behind his grill.. It was bright! I bet he could see everything like it was daylight out! I have the super-white headlights and super-white foglights so my truck is umbearably bright if in a low car.
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 32
Likes: 0
From:
RE: Fog lights/ high & low beam for 2006?
ORIGINAL: Claw
Just because they're called fog lights doesn't mean they aren't extremely helpful in other scenarios. The combination of fogs and high beams is quite beneficial off-roading at night or even on dark backroads, especially in the mountains where I live. I've had many close calls with deer, elk, etc. that come out of thick brush on the roadsides, and the fogs really help to illuminate those areas while the high beams are reaching further down the road. It's also pretty common here for rocks to come rolling onto the road after they've tumbled down from above. I lived the first 35 years of my life in MI, so it's my opinion they are also very valuable there, for similar reasons. In CO, the law is that you can have a maximum of 4 lights on at a time, regardless of whether they're low or high beam, so I'm legal here. In this case, more light = better vision = safer driving.
Just because they're called fog lights doesn't mean they aren't extremely helpful in other scenarios. The combination of fogs and high beams is quite beneficial off-roading at night or even on dark backroads, especially in the mountains where I live. I've had many close calls with deer, elk, etc. that come out of thick brush on the roadsides, and the fogs really help to illuminate those areas while the high beams are reaching further down the road. It's also pretty common here for rocks to come rolling onto the road after they've tumbled down from above. I lived the first 35 years of my life in MI, so it's my opinion they are also very valuable there, for similar reasons. In CO, the law is that you can have a maximum of 4 lights on at a time, regardless of whether they're low or high beam, so I'm legal here. In this case, more light = better vision = safer driving.
