Fog Light Gob****es

MrVostro

Why?????

Guy:Incognito

in before lock.

Jimbo

Not Again
BTW. Well done Stekelly

crosstownk

*bangs head off wall and points to the charter*

vengeance52

oh, a foglight thread.... wow. these are rare these days.

Max_Damage

Give them a blast of the high beams. That'll teach 'em.

Jimbo

Intersting discussion it has to be said

blue diver

wear sunglasses:eek:

KTRIC

Mmmm, fog lights you say, on you say :rolleyes:


Well I never, people these days......

fifth

Blast 'em back.. !

Jimbo

I hate foglights.
Discuss

skibum

Front fog lights, most offenders think it looks cool :rolleyes: Around Bray most offenders tend to be Micras, Almera's and of course BMW's.

rear fog lights offender's tend to be women who grip the steering wheel as close to their chests as possible, completely ignorant at to what the light on the dash or the switch is for.

Jimbo

Ive head foglights make Glanzas go faster

Supercell

Heh, we agree OP, you are not alone!!
That and fupping aimed up daylight power bulbs get my goat too.

LOT to be said for the Frenchie yellow headlights imho, my retinas always seem to survive yellow tourist headlights but not fupping dipshít paddy with his fupping xeons.

Ahh...got that rant out for another winter now.

Jimbo

Those fuppers..

crosstownk

How do I turn on my fog lights? Is there a switch? Can I turn them on irrespective of the fog sensor?

Jimbo

Not telling you..
Were tring to discourage fog lights

Supercell

crosstownk wrote: »

How do I turn on my fog lights? Is there a switch? Can I turn them on irrespective of the fog sensor?

Please, please...don't go there

MrVostro

Sorry i was just in shock today.

One of them nearly caused me to knock some eejit on a bike with no lights on today. Road was pitch dark. I barely saw the cyclist as i was coming to the corner. Next thing the fog light gobsh!te comes around the corner and blinds me. I had to practically stop on a main road because i couldnt see the cyclist anymore but knew he was there. Only saw him when i got within a foot of him. That was too close.
The Mr Fog light Gobsh!te goes on his merry way not realizing he almost ruined 2 peoples lives.

I hate them.

We should flash them twice for "Gob" "Sh!te" i think.

Wishbone Ash

MrVostro wrote: »

The Mr Fog light Gobsh!te goes on his merry way not realizing he almost ruined 2 peoples lives

"Sure me spot lights help make me more visible and safer on the roads" :rolleyes:

Supercell

MrVostro wrote: »

Sorry i was just in shock today.

The Mr Fog light Gobsh!te goes on his merry way not realizing he almost ruined 2 peoples lives.

I hate them.

Fair play to ye.

Wish we had more drivers like you on the road with a bit of cop on.

I'm sending nerdy +'ve karma your way.

Seth Brundle

aaw crap - someone mentioned the F & L words! And right when everyone was just getting into the Christmas spirit! Now Christmas is ruined! What will I say to my two kids?
Thanks! :mad:

BlackWizard

I'm fairly new to driving. Only been driving for a few months, but lately Ive been driving in the dark or dim lit areas quite a bit.

I've often had cars drive past me or behind me with really bright lights. I just figured they were high beams and creatively cursed at them. Am I now to think that they are Fog Lights? Because I've come close to getting out of the car to ask the driver behind to turn down his lights. I can adjust the center mirror but my side mirrors just belt the light straight into my face. :mad:

Panda Moanium

MrVostro wrote: »

Sorry i was just in shock today.

One of them nearly caused me to knock some eejit on a bike with no lights on today. Road was pitch dark. I barely saw the cyclist as i was coming to the corner. Next thing the fog light gobsh!te comes around the corner and blinds me. I had to practically stop on a main road because i couldnt see the cyclist anymore but knew he was there. Only saw him when i got within a foot of him. That was too close.
The Mr Fog light Gobsh!te goes on his merry way not realizing he almost ruined 2 peoples lives.

I hate them.

We should flash them twice for "Gob" "Sh!te" i think.

Without trying in the slightest to defend the inappropriate use of fog lights, surely the issue in this situation was the fact the cyclist had no lights rather than the car coming towards you had its fogs on???

Sully

BlackWizard wrote: »

I'm fairly new to driving. Only been driving for a few months, but lately Ive been driving in the dark or dim lit areas quite a bit.

I've often had cars drive past me or behind me with really bright lights. I just figured they were high beams and creatively cursed at them. Am I now to think that they are Fog Lights? Because I've come close to getting out of the car to ask the driver behind to turn down his lights. I can adjust the center mirror but my side mirrors just belt the light straight into my face. :mad:

This article might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_lighting

Sounds to me like its there normal lights.. fog lights are below the bumper on the front and normally by the break light on the back. (Rough description)

Sully

Panda Moanium wrote: »

Without trying in the slightest to defend the inappropriate use of fog lights, surely the issue in this situation was the fact the cyclist had no lights rather than the car coming towards you had its fogs on???

Agreed.

One thing that gets me about the whole "I hate ****ers with fog lights" is that it seems for some there very bright and others not that bright. I drive with them on at night to brigthen up dark roads with no lighting. Others do the same, and iv never found them to bother me in the slightest?!

tuxy

FFS Sully you are one of them.
Use full beams to light up dark roads, dipping when there is oncoming traffic.

Today there was a school bus with it's front fogs on (no fog today)
He should have been going to school, not the children.

Don't get me started on the front fogs + parking lights I see many people using now.
I just can't comprehend it.

Seth Brundle

Sully - fog lights light up the area right in front and to the left of the car. If you are dependant on them to get from A to B safely then there is something wrong with either you or your cars lights.

Sully

Oh I can manage fine without them, I just think it lights up the road that bit better.

Henry Ford III

A guy in a Renault Kangoo last night had 2 big foglights on, and no other lights.

Incredible.

It's possible that they were the only lights on his Renault which still worked however.

Wishbone Ash

Sully wrote: »

I drive with them on at night to brigthen up dark roads with no lighting

Perhaps you could explain this for the rest of us!

Fog lights are designed for use in heavy fog or falling snow. It is illegal to use them otherwise (on a public road).

Very heavy fog (which we rarely get) is very dis-orientating.

Fog lights are designed to illuminate the edge of the roadway so that, in very heavy fog, the motorist can crawl along at a very slow speed using the edge of the road way as a guide.

As they generally illuminate the edge of the roadway and are designed for very slow speeds, their use in normal driving is totally pointless. By the time something shows up in you foglight's field of vision, you will have run over it anyway, unless you are driving around at 10kph.

What then, is the point of using them in normal driving conditions?



What's worse than the motorist who uses foglights are those total muppets who use parking lights combined with foglights! Do they not realise how dangerous an illegal it is and how stupid and ridiculous they look! :rolleyes:

(I'm surprised this thread has survived the padlock for so long! )

meathstevie

I use foglights ( front ) and high beams on badly lit roads, with the little nuance that I flick back to normal lights when there's oncoming traffic or a car ahead of me... . What annoys me even more is people driving with their rear foglight on completly oblivious to the fact that they're blinding people behind them

eamon234

Sully wrote: »

Sounds to me like its there normal lights.. fog lights are below the bumper on the front and normally by the break light on the back. (Rough description)

On Skoda Octavias (not sure about Fabias) the fog lights are built in to the main headlight assembly beside the main headlamp bulb and not underneath like most - so might look like someone with very bright dims if they're on.

chump

meathstevie wrote: »

I use foglights ( front ) and high beams on badly lit roads, with the little nuance that I flick back to normal lights when there's oncoming traffic or a car ahead of me... . What annoys me even more is people driving with their rear foglight on completly oblivious to the fact that they're blinding people behind them

a rear fog light blinding people?

Guy:Incognito

chump wrote: »

a rear fog light blinding people?

Not literally but yes, they are very bright (similar to someong drivign with their foot on the brake) and piercing on the eyesw, escpecially if you are behind the same car for a long time.

blastman

Anyone know where I can get a replacement foglight for an 88-91 Civic/CRX (the yellow one the imports have)? I promise never to switch it on if you tell me (unless it's really foggy, of course).

flintash

i just blame irish system- muppets legally allowed to drive on public roads without even seeing Rules of the Roads ever in their life.
And dont give a f*ck about full lights while tailing.

MrVostro

Panda Moanium wrote: »

Without trying in the slightest to defend the inappropriate use of fog lights, surely the issue in this situation was the fact the cyclist had no lights rather than the car coming towards you had its fogs on???

Yes they were both in the wrong but Mr Fog Light Gobsh!te almost got someone killed because his fog lights "lit up the road better" along with the inside of my eyes, but didnt light up the back of the cyclist at all.

On this occasion i could see the other gobsh!te with no lights on his bike until the fog lights blinded me. Had he been killed it would have been down to me being blinded by the fog lights on.

Also, why would a thread asking for people to be conscious of safety on our roads be locked. I would think only the fog light gobsh!tes would want it locked.

MrVostro

Sully wrote: »

Agreed.

One thing that gets me about the whole "I hate ****ers with fog lights" is that it seems for some there very bright and others not that bright. I drive with them on at night to brigthen up dark roads with no lighting. Others do the same, and iv never found them to bother me in the slightest?!

Perhaps you should either take off your sun glasses or get your eyes tested. My own opinion is that People only put on their fog lights because they think somehow that it makes them cool.

antodeco

I had some idiot behind me with his full beams on around 6pm yesterday on the merrion road. Starting flashing my rear fog to get him to realise. Nah, not a clue. Did this for around 5 minutes as he kept them on. Eventually I just left them on for the whole journey he was behind me. He blinds me, I blind him!

flintash

antodeco wrote: »

I had some idiot behind me with his full beams on around 6pm yesterday on the merrion road. Starting flashing my rear fog to get him to realise. Nah, not a clue. Did this for around 5 minutes as he kept them on. Eventually I just left them on for the whole journey he was behind me. He blinds me, I blind him!

You could let him overtake you, and then show him yours full lights- move little to right side, so blind through side mirror, as rear view mirror could be switched to dark mode.
Thats the way i got lesson, while i was just little chicken behind wheel and forgot to turn full lights off.That fella after some time blinding me just took off as he was in much faster car.I wanted revenge , but...:D

colm_mcm

www.ilovefoglights.com

Anyone complaining probably has a base model without foglights.

astrofool

colm_mcm wrote: »

www.ilovefoglights.com

Anyone complaining probably has a base model without foglights.

And I'm sure anyone using them when they shouldn't be is trying to make up for their miniatureness in the manhood department (and if they're in a BMW with them on, it means they lost their twig in an accident).

colm_mcm

astrofool wrote: »

And I'm sure anyone using them when they shouldn't be is trying to make up for their miniatureness in the manhood department (and if they're in a BMW with them on, it means they lost their twig in an accident).

....without generalising too much

Wishbone Ash

astrofool wrote: »

And I'm sure anyone using them when they shouldn't be is trying to make up for their miniatureness in the manhood department

What about the ladeez?

tuxy

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

What about the ladeez?

Penis envy.

Marcus.Aurelius

kbannon wrote: »

aaw crap - someone mentioned the F & L words! And right when everyone was just getting into the Christmas spirit! Now Christmas is ruined! What will I say to my two kids?
Thanks! :mad:

You..................have children?

Ye Gods....::p

blackbox

MrVostro wrote: »

Sorry i was just in shock today.

One of them nearly caused me to knock some eejit on a bike with no lights on today. Road was pitch dark. I barely saw the cyclist as i was coming to the corner. Next thing the fog light gobsh!te comes around the corner and blinds me. I had to practically stop on a main road because i couldnt see the cyclist anymore but knew he was there. Only saw him when i got within a foot of him. That was too close.
The Mr Fog light Gobsh!te goes on his merry way not realizing he almost ruined 2 peoples lives.

I hate them.

We should flash them twice for "Gob" "Sh!te" i think.

Are you sure that you are not confusing fog lights with spotlights? Foglights have a low flat beam to light up the road and verges close to the car. Spotlights are the ones that turn night into day, but have a tendency to boil the fluid in the eyes of oncoming traffic - i.e. need to be wired only to high beam circuit.

unkel

That's it. Everybody got it off their chest. No more fog light threads until this time next year