[s-cars] Fog light HID upgrade?

[JC]

Mark - Yeah what Bob is talking about is more of a type of driving light
than a true fog application. But I can totally identify with his impulse
having lived at the end of a 1/4 mile driveway into endless woods in the
past. The current 'pod' type projector aftermarkets are so good though, that
might be the way to go and gives you a range of choice in beam from various
'driving' to fog type beam diffusion. I certainly would worry about the heat
in the projector housing, especially if it's simultaneous to another high
temp bulb in the low beams.

Of course think we all agree about ubiquifogs these days. IMO an OEM needs
to make the fog on button a momentary so that it has to willfully be turned
on every time rather than left in on constantly. Around '98 or so Audi went
to a switch like this but the stupid German mistake they made was to assume
that Americans would be awake enough to discern between 'front fog' and
'rear fog' positions, and hence drivers in the USA just crank that knob out
all the way all the time, not even knowing that there's such a thing as a
rear fog light glaring in someone's face...

To the fogs-only point for snow - absolutely - I am irritated to have not
figured out a clever method to activate the fog switch with parking
lights... I have a wiring diagram on my desk now and have been trying to
figure a clever way to get that done unintrusively.  I have a 95.5 so the
simple relay jumper trick doesn't work...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Mark Strangways
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 16:54 PM
> To: lee at wheelman.com; Robert Myers
> Cc: 'S-Car-List at Audifans.Com'
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fog light HID upgrade?
>
> 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.
>


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