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Old Dec 14th 2006, 3:24 pm
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Default Re: Driving at night with no lights on

Originally Posted by gsnichol
I realised recently that my car has no rear fog lights.. people round here seem to think this is normal! Is it?! I have front fogs, but not the super useful let-people-see-you-so-you-don't-get-rear-ended rear fogs..
Unless it's a European car it probably doesn't have rear fog lights. Around here there's really no need for them...we don't get low visibility fog like in the UK. Probably a good thing 'cos most would probably drive around with them on all the time. It's so annoying when people in the UK switch rear fog lights on 'cos it's dark or raining.
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Old Dec 14th 2006, 3:31 pm
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Default Re: Driving at night with no lights on

Originally Posted by gsnichol
I realised recently that my car has no rear fog lights.. people round here seem to think this is normal! Is it?! I have front fogs, but not the super useful let-people-see-you-so-you-don't-get-rear-ended rear fogs..
Fog lights are all but non existent here in USA. Backward place on lots things.
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Originally Posted by frrussre
Fog lights are all but non existent here in USA. Backward place on lots things.
Reg. Frank R.
Very true.

Morning Frank.
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Very true.

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Morning Jersey, how are you.
Raining cats & dogs.
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Morning Jersey, how are you.
Raining cats & dogs.
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I'm good thank you and yourself? Not feeling very festive though.

It was wet and damp here yesterday...quite warm though in the 50's.
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Default Re: Driving at night with no lights on

Originally Posted by gsnichol
I realised recently that my car has no rear fog lights.. people round here seem to think this is normal! Is it?! I have front fogs, but not the super useful let-people-see-you-so-you-don't-get-rear-ended rear fogs..
I read on a car forum somewhere that the reason American vehicles don't have rear fog lights is because they are often confused that it is a faulty brake light!! Pretty funny considering how many car's have red flashing bulbs for indicators (not that your average American uses their indicators)
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Default Re: Driving at night with no lights on

Originally Posted by gsnichol
I realised recently that my car has no rear fog lights.. people round here seem to think this is normal! Is it?! I have front fogs, but not the super useful let-people-see-you-so-you-don't-get-rear-ended rear fogs..
It is weird, but only around here...who needs to see if there about to hit a car and all that...
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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Unless it's a European car it probably doesn't have rear fog lights. Around here there's really no need for them...we don't get low visibility fog like in the UK...
around here you do, and it's really, really bad up in maine, gets even worse when you throw in the snow showers....
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Default Re: Driving at night with no lights on

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Unless it's a European car it probably doesn't have rear fog lights. Around here there's really no need for them...we don't get low visibility fog like in the UK. Probably a good thing 'cos most would probably drive around with them on all the time. It's so annoying when people in the UK switch rear fog lights on 'cos it's dark or raining.
It's a Focus.

We're hardly likely to get fog in Arizona, but if I were to go to California then it may pose more of a problem... and why have front fogs but no rears?..
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Default Re: Driving at night with no lights on

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
I'm good thank you and yourself? Not feeling very festive though.

It was wet and damp here yesterday...quite warm though in the 50's.
Beach yesterday, today, cats and dogs with flooding. Going to the airport to pick up the boy wonder, have not seen him since August. Guess will be a shock, Boy to man etc.
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Originally Posted by Dan725
As if the driving here in Tampa wasn't bad enough already with its combination of geriatrics and stressed New Yorker corporate lunatics, the latest "Craze" I have noticed seems to be to engage in a contest of how long you can leave it before you turn your lights on during your rush hour commute home.

Every night, I see at least 5 cars driving along in almost night conditions with no lights on. All came to a head yesterday when this idiot came flying past in a black BMW with no lights on - I barely saw him. Couple of minutes later, there he was in the ditch after a truck didn't see him and sideswiped him off the road - making him the contest winner!
Dickhead.

Can't believe the amount of people who don't have the presence of mind to turn their lights on when its dark here - shows how much concentration is going towards their surroundings vs other activities, namely the cell phone.
If it was a Beemer it would have had an automatic headlight option which makes it even more stupid.
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Default Re: Driving at night with no lights on

Originally Posted by TRPardoe
If it was a Beemer it would have had an automatic headlight option which makes it even more stupid.
See post #8
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Default Re: Driving at night with no lights on

Originally Posted by nai_in_av
On the way to work this morning the fog has been really thick, can barely see more than 50 meters and a lot of places even less. Yet still see loads of people driving with no lights on, one highlight was the woman in her mini van with the "kids first" licence plate.......... I wondered if it was for kids first in an accident because mom was too f***ing stupid to turn the lights on.

The thing that is really odd is that when it's not foggy at all, every moron here drives around with their fog lights on, yet when there is fog half the people have no lights on...........

We had a problem this morning with the thickest fog I have ever seen here. My truck was in the shop for repairs so I was riding on the back of the Triumph and with next to no visibility it was a pretty hairy ride into work :scared:
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Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
We had a problem this morning with the thickest fog I have ever seen here. My truck was in the shop for repairs so I was riding on the back of the Triumph and with next to no visibility it was a pretty hairy ride into work :scared:
Makes a change from you riding a chopper.
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See post #8
Bugger me, we agree on something. :scared:
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