[s-cars] Fog light HID upgrade?

[Mark Strangways]

I put a second of 150W halogen driving lights on the front of my Jeep.
They focus way in front of you, and that combined with regular bulbs yields 
an almost daylight in front of me whilst in the back 40.
Not real friendly to oncoming traffic mind you, but it has halted quite a 
few deer at the shoulders.

For my 2 cents on this, fogs have no place on cars these days. People just 
leave them on whenever the turn their headlights on.
This does very little other than light up the road in front of you and piss 
oncoming traffic off... though I have found that I have never seen a cop car 
with fogs on, so that kinda helps determine if you need to slow down at all.

2 weeks ago I drove through a pretty much blinding blizzard, while many 
where tooling along in whatever lane they could create with their high beams 
a blazing, blinding themselves.. I was doing silly speeds in 4 wheel, with 
just my fogs on and I could see much better than using low beams and fogs. 
This is what I feel they are made for, and this only. As stated they do 
really screw up your long range vision by having too much near field light 
right in front of you.

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Myers" <bob at chips-ur-s.com>
To: <lee at wheelman.com>
Cc: "'S-Car-List at Audifans.Com'" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fog light HID upgrade?


>
> Lee,
>
> And here's why I think HID fogs might be "good".  I live in the
> toolies, the way outback, the boonies, or whatever else you might
> like to call the region.  We aren't quite at the edge of the world
> but we can see it from our back door.  Need I emphasize that it is
> _DARK_ at night out here.  Those of you who live in/near a city and
> do most of your night time driving there have almost no comprehension
> of just how dark a moonless country night can be.  Bambi and his
> friends frequent these parts and they seem to take particular delight
> in jumping right out in front of cars at night.  In the daylight as
> well but particularly at night.
>
> Under these circumstances anything which will increase the likelihood
> of spotting Bambi (usually by the reflected light from his eyes) is a
> definite plus.  High beams, which I run probably 90% to 95% of the
> time are good but the beam pattern tends to be fairly sharply
> delimited to a cone straight in front of the car.  Lowbeams, HID or
> not, provide a decently spread beam for seeing the road up close and
> personal but don't do much for the shoulders.  Fog lights spread a
> beam onto the shoulders but they don't provide nearly as bright a
> beam as do the HID lowbeams or the standard halogen high beams.  Good
> bright fog lights are a definite help when it comes to spotting
> Bambi.  Oh, yes, they sometimes can help in foggy conditions as well.  ;-)
>
> Bambi - go back home.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> At 11:14 AM 1/27/2009, Lee Levitt wrote:
>
>>Here's why HID fogs are bad:
>>
>>http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/Hid/disadvantages/disadvantages.html
>>
>>Lee
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