The use of front fog lights

[highlander]

Peugeot used to sell a "fog lamp kit" for the low-end 406s that didn't have them built-in (i.e. my old LX saloon). It seems that all 406s after 1999 had them in though (except possibly in L trim).

They were also referred to in the handbook as "fog lamps" so I guess that answers that question.

[FarmerPug]

the lower ones are the fogs, i dont mind oncoming motorists with fogs, especially 406s in the dark its easy to tell a 406 apart from the rest just by the shape of its lights, and the rear fog light only comes on when some asshole is tailgating me

[mjb]

Think I've only needed to use my rear foglamp twice. Once was on the M6 where I was forced to sit within about 6 feet of the back of a truck just so I could see his tail lights. I had no idea at all of where the road was so was praying he didn't drive us off an embankment Figured it'd be safer there than risking parking on the hard shoulder and getting rammed.

The other time was at traffic lights on the A500 with little visibility and nothing behind me. Suddenly I see a bright cloud approach from behind. He ended up swerving around me (rear foglamps definitely saved my arse there!), he ran the red light he didn't see, and went onto the roundabout thankfully without hitting anyone, all the time on the ABS...


Living in an area with lots of small but sharp hills/slopes means I get blinded by fog lamps all the time

[gRoberts]

To be honest, I think more and more cars now are simply coming with "sports lights" which are simply for show.

The Mondeo has the word fog light switch ever. You pull the light switch out to turn them on. What's stupid about it, is that you can't turn on the rear without turning on the front, but you can turn on the front independently of the rear. Ghey!

I've never had to drive in conditions bad enough to turn them on. All of my previous cars had only rear fog lamps.

What gets my gripe is just how people simply lack common driving sense. Last night, I was in traffic, in the pitch black, with some dizzy (yet beautiful) blonde who was driving her 09 Corsa with no lights on. When I flashed at her to let her know, she simply pulled into the space in front of me. Argh!

Another thing i'm seeing a lot of, which I assume is related to an ABS sensor, is people driving around with their brake lights on. I really hope they're foot isn't THAT big that it not only accelerates, but brakes at the same time?

I like the look of cars with their front fogs on and I've always wanted a car with front fogs, just so I can look "cool" but as soon as I get a car with them on, I am worried that the police will pull me over for using them. So I don't bother.

[teamster1975]

Round here it's usually beemers or corsas driven by boy racers, the dickheads
My bugbear at the moment is driving through a mini snow storm because the tw@ in front hasn't swept the snow off their roof

[FarmerPug]

I dont like cars that drive with just the foglights on.

[waue1978]

The Mondeo has the word fog light switch ever. You pull the light switch out to turn them on. What's stupid about it, is that you can't turn on the rear without turning on the front, but you can turn on the front independently of the rear. Ghey!

My 406 is like that. Have to rotate the control once for front, 2 clicks for rear.

Mondeos do have one good feature with regards to foglights though. My MK2s had a dial on the right of the dash that you turned for the lights to come on, then pull out once for front fogs, twice for rear, but as soon as you turned the dial back, it popped back in to make sure you didn't inadvertently leave the foglights on.

[FarmerPug]

My old mercedes e class had a pull out dial for the fog lights, 1st pull front, 2nd pull rear i think. The strange thing about its fog lights were that they were integrated into the big headlights, hence why w124 mercs rarely have separate front fogs.

[Welly]

It was foggy early this morning and I found I could use the front fogs without the headlights didn't help though

[FarmerPug]

foglights look good though, when switched off a car sitting in a carpark with front fogs looks better than something with blanking plates.

[Doggy]

It was foggy early this morning and I found I could use the front fogs without the headlights didn't help though

That's cos we don't get proper fog anymore.

Burn more coal!

[FarmerPug]

Thats not fog its smog ie Smoke and FOG, SMOG. Something from the good olde days of geography, apparently theres a lot of the stuff in Los Angeles

[highlander]

Smog doesn't have to include fog... it can be simple pollution!

Remember before the Beijing games, air pollution was recorded as five times worse than levels deemed safe by the World Health Organisation.

Here's a photo:


Sure it's pretty, but there's no fog involved, and it'll bloody knacker your lungs; some of the chemicals in the air there are carcinogenic (i.e. will cause cancer given prolonged exposure) and these poor buggers get it that bad most days!

[STALLED]

Smog is a combination of dense air and pollution - it takes either a warm day to lift it, or heaps of wind.

Fog lights are used by morons in Sydney. Usually seen on Commodore ute's - they are a status symbol, to show the world that you are a royal dickhead.

[FarmerPug]

How many toyota jeeps are over there, is it just an odd perhaps steryotypical idea that they are very popular in australia.