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Spot lights as dipped driving lights?

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Boddle:
Just because you are not aware of it doesn't mean there isn't a law. IF you have purchased a set of lights which claim to fog lights (not driving lights) they will come with should instruct you to height and distance from the edge of vehicle for Fog lights.
 Any light mounted not mounted in that zone legally require to be only to used only when main beam is operated (switched with main beam) and be of driving light beam pattern.

Saffy:
and besides the legals (the official lighting regs can be found online btw) the low mounting position and beam pattern of a proper fog lamp is designed to exploit the clear area found below foggy road conditions (fog never goes all way to ground), otherwise the lamps are just illuminating the fog and giving a useless white out.

the reg's for front fog lamps...
http://www.uk-legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1989/Uksi_19891796_en_11.htm#nsch6requirementrelatingoptionalfrontfoglamp

Range Rover Blues:

--- Quote from: Boddle on March 20, 2008, 08:20:30 ---Just because you are not aware of it doesn't mean there isn't a law. IF you have purchased a set of lights which claim to fog lights (not driving lights) they will come with should instruct you to height and distance from the edge of vehicle for Fog lights.
 Any light mounted not mounted in that zone legally require to be only to used only when main beam is operated (switched with main beam) and be of driving light beam pattern.

--- End quote ---

I did and they didn't.  As I said, it's something to do with how they are wired up (thanks for the link Saffy), it seems you can use them in place of dipped beam if they are less than 1200mm from the floor.  Well that's 4 feet :?

You can use them at any height if they either come on with main beam or with a seperate switch as worklamps.

Boddle:
 Yes but if they are to be use whilest driving they need to be attached to mainbeam, worklamps are only to be used when stationary.

Jake:
We have constant wired spot lights on the Jeep at work.
The lights are Warn and have dip/main beam built into them
When the car is on dipped lights the spots are on but not hugely bright (like having a second set of headlights).
Flick to main beam and the spots come alive and totally outshine the main head lights.
Looks cool too although people do flash to tell us the spots are on
Then we give them a friendly flash back to say thanks  ;)
 :D

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