Oppo question - Rear fog lights

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux) 11/19/2014 at 15:38 • Filed to: None

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Who uses the rear fog lights if installed on their cars. I do if I am in fog/rain/snow as it is intended. I have modified numerous cars to have them on both sides even. Any added bit of visibility is good by me! Inspired by you can tell a Finn's !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:39

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The white lights go on automatically when I put it in reverse.

KirkyV > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:40

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My car only has rear fogs, and I use them pretty much whenever there's heavy fog. It's in The Highway Code, and I don't want to get rear-ended on a misty country lane.

505Turbeaux > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 11/19/2014 at 15:40

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If you turn those on on the highway I am gonna hit you!

Mercedes Streeter > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:41

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I see people who use them all the time (same with their front fogs), regardless of visibility...

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:41

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Mild rain/snow/fog I put my front ones on. Heavy rain/snow/fog I use the rear one too.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:41

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Well yeah. I'd be going the wrong way.

Nibbles > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:44

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I'm afraid to. The cops would probably think I have a bulb out, pull me over, notice I'm in/from Colorado, bring out the drug dog, try to force a search and civil forfeiture my new car

Fuck it

mike > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:45

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I use em when visibility is shite, or when some shitbird is tailgating i pop em on and off a few times.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:47

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Same here, though we rarely have fog heavy enough to use them. I use my front fogs more often though, as they have a low setting for light fog and rain that won't blind oncoming drivers or pedestrians.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:47

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I use them in low-vis situations, like one should.

BJ > Mercedes Streeter 11/19/2014 at 15:48

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This is the problem with North American drivers in European cars. People drive around with their fogs on because it looks cool (it does, in many cases) without realizing that they look like ideas and that they're blinding their fellow drivers...

Milky > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:48

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I use my fronts all the time but, and this is a noob question, what are rear fogs even? I don't think I have those. Its just brighter tail lights right?

Textured Soy Protein > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:48

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I never use rear fogs because I feel like it confuses other drivers about whether or not I'm using the brakes. Most people don't even know what a rear foglight is. Hell, usually when I see a car with its rear fogs on, it's on a totally clear day where the driver obviously doesn't know they have their rear fogs on, and my first thought is "what's up with that car's brake lights...oh wait rear fogs."

Also neither of my current vehicles has a rear foglight.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:50

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I don't have rear fogs, but on my old truck I could turn on the cargo light without turning on the interiors, so I would do that. I hate that you can't turn the cargo light on in the F-150 without turning on the interior lights too.

505Turbeaux > Nibbles 11/19/2014 at 15:50

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yeah I have worried about that in the past, which is why I have sometimes added them to both sides. I think I am going to do it on the benz tonight while I am thinking about it

505Turbeaux > Milky 11/19/2014 at 15:51

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yeah, usually on the drivers side only, but I have seen cars with 2 plenty

505Turbeaux > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 11/19/2014 at 15:52

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that is super weird. We have a no emitting white light from the rear while in forward motion law up here though

Nibbles > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:53

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I have, however, used it to:

Inform the moron behind me he's too damn close
Inform the moron behind me it's after dark and he really should turn on his lights
Inform the moron behind me that his turn signal has been on for seventeen goddamn miles

DasWauto > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:55

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I'm pretty anal about having my lights on (and it pisses me off to no end when other motorists don't) but I never use my front fogs, even when I'm driving a car that has them (mostly because I've never found them to help me see and I see idiots driving with them on all the time, regardless of visibility conditions). As a result I'd never even think about using them on the rear if it did have them.

Party-vi > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 15:56

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I haven't installed them on the E46 yet, mostly because I'd rather take a cheese-grater to my balls than mess with the electrical system on a BMW.

505Turbeaux > Nibbles 11/19/2014 at 15:58

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I have used it in this instance often and alot. One tap of the rear fog when someone is crawling up on your ass is usually enough

505Turbeaux > DasWauto 11/19/2014 at 15:59

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on the W210 they really supplement the peripheral vision, which when in Maine, is sometimes the difference between smacking a deer or moose or not. I use the fronts often and alot for this reason

505Turbeaux > Party-vi 11/19/2014 at 16:00

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yeah you might need those things sooner or later. BMW electrical is pretty easy to mess with if it is a US spec car. It should be a plug and play on a 46

Tripped on an Orange > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:03

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In the US, I really only see them on European cars. They are required in certain European countries. Typically center rear fog, or it supposed to be on the driver's side. Rarely is it on both.

Of course, in the US, when I see somebody drive around with rear fogs on during a perfectly clear night..just no.

Party-vi > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:04

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Nope. On a US E46 there were never provisions installed for the rear fog lights. I read up on a DIY that seemed simple enough but wasn't interested at the time.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:06

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I never even considered the lighting color requirements, but I wonder if truck cargo lights count against that? I never got pulled over for doing that and did it for a lot of winters.

505Turbeaux > Party-vi 11/19/2014 at 16:06

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oh weird. My e39 and e34 wagons had them either installed and functioning (e34) or wired and missing a bulb and switch (e39)

505Turbeaux > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 11/19/2014 at 16:07

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I know alot of people that plow up here and they have gotten nabbed for it early in the morning trying to work and having some prick cop making sure they werent drinking or whatever

Party-vi > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:08

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Maybe I should have a look. Your E39 and E34 were also not a cheap 3-series.

505Turbeaux > Party-vi 11/19/2014 at 16:13

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no, just cheap 5 series :)

RazoE > Tripped on an Orange 11/19/2014 at 16:21

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The Oldsmobile Aurora had them. Can't think of any other American car that had them in the US.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:25

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Is that for the cargo light, or do they have rear work lights mounted for plowing? I can see getting pulled for having a rear work light on.

RallyWrench > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:28

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I have them in my wife's 325iT, though they don't get used often, usually just when driving across the valley or up to Thunderhill in the tule fog.

505Turbeaux > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 11/19/2014 at 16:29

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hmm I think they were auxillary but pointed into the bed

DasWauto > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:29

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I've typically found their range to be too short to be worth anything to me. I live in areas that are well populated by deer so I'm quite familiar with having to be attentive of my peripherals. For that reason I like when I car projects widely in both the high and low beams, I think anything the fogs might help me see would be too close for me to have enough time to do anything about it.

It does likely vary by car or manufacturer though. My Golf doesn't have them and with my experience of foglights being useless, it's not an omission that factored into my decision to buy the car at all.

Vicente Esteve > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:49

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I only use them at dark when there i rain (Since fog is extremely rare) since they are very annoying for anyone behind me.

DrScientist > Tripped on an Orange 11/19/2014 at 16:52

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these are mostly the types who have their front fogs on just because it looks cool.

german cars (from my experience and what i've seen on the road) tend to have the single rear fog light on the driver's side only. i assume this is so cars passing in dense weather can see that corner better???

most cars also have only one setting, FOG ON-OFF, with no discrimination between front and rear.

porsche, i know, has a pull one click for FRONT FOG ON, then pull 2 clicks for FRONT AND REAR FOG ON.

Klaus Schmoll > 505Turbeaux 11/19/2014 at 16:57

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In Germany the law says that you can only use your rear fogs if visibility is below 50 meters or 150 feet. It also says that at a poor visibility like this, you are supposed to drive at speeds lower than 50 kph. Well, I still see people blasting down the Autobahn in a light drizzle with their rear fogs on. It's just irritating.

I can't remember switching on my rear fog lights other than checking that they still work.