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kourgath:
Ah, fog lights during the day....
from the Highway code
Rule 226
You MUST use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced, generally when you cannot see for more than 100 metres (328 feet). You may also use front or rear fog lights but you MUST switch them off when visibility improves (see Rule 236).
Rule 236
You MUST NOT use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 226) as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves.
the words MUST and MUST NOT mean it is law not just good advice.
EU are probably going to require cars are fitted with daytime running lights, which I think means 10w as over 20w needs a dipping function - not certain about this.
Still if we all obeyed the highway code our roads would be a different place...
Apple cart <-push
Gavin / kourgath
Jake:
I still believe that front fog lights should be on the same switch as the rear ones.
If its foggy then turn on the lights, all of them
If its not foggy you wont annoy other road users with your over bright, show off lights on :wink:
8)
Bush Tucker Man:
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--- Quote from: "muddycarl" ---personally i can't stand it when folks are driving around in brilliant sunshine with their foglights on .......is there a point to this practice that i'm missing
thought there was a set distance of visibility before you can have foglights on at all :roll: :roll:
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There is - I forget what it is though.
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There is, it's called the 'Look At Me!!!!!!!!' syndrome
See here a fuller explaination
JumboBeef:
I have always driven with dipped lights on at all times for at least the last ten years, even on the brightest summer day (comes from driving abroad alot).
--- Quote from: "kourgath" ---I put my lights on almost all the time mostly side lights.
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Er, isn't driving on side lights (except at night, in a 30mph area with street lights) illegal?
carbore:
Lots of muppets on the way from Cornwall to Glos last night.
Fog lights on in Drizzle (adamnt about it)
Driving too close
Driving in the middle lane at 60 coz its "safe" so I was in the inside lane and constantly pulling out to overtake (and people wonder why undertaking is on the rise)
I hate them all, profoundly.
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