Here's an excercise for all you "foglight sensitive" people (only for those
with fog lights on their daks can test this).
Tools for excercise:
1 Piece of white chalk
1 large dark "level" parking lot
Take your Dak to the large dark parking lot. Turn on your headlights only.
Take chalk and mark where the headlights contact the ground (big ovalesque
shape). Turn off headlights and turn on foglights only (older Dak's may not
be able to do this, the 97+ models can). Take chalk and mark where they throw
their light. Turn on all lights and look at chalk marks. If your lights are
properly adjusted, you will notice that your foglamps fall mostly short of the
main lamps and wider to the sides, the top of the light circle barely reaching
into the oval of the main lights, making a nice 'triangular' shape of light in
front of the truck.
What does this mean? It means that if you're being blinded by properly
adusted "fog lights" then you are either directly in front or slightly to the
side of the oncoming vehicle; laying on the ground. I can't speak for anyone
else, but I don't think that's a safe place to be in either case. Your name
could be "dumbass" but it would more likely be "roadkill" in a micro second or
so.
For those of us with correctly aligned fog lights who drive around with
them always on (as I do for the safety of myself and my passengers) whenever
the main lamps are on, it means that Darwinism will prevail and eventually all
sensitive fog lamp people will be extinct from being run over.
Now if you want to change your 'tude and say "I really hate people who
drive around with poorly adjusted fog/driving lights" then I can understand
that, I hate it too. Until then, I'd refrain from bagging on those of us who
find it much easier to see infront of our trucks with our fog lamps on, as it
also has a tendency to "freeze" small animals in their tracks on the side of
the road so I don't run over them and I really hate killing small animals with
my truck, it makes me feel bad.
Shaun H.
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un H.
---original message---
Don't mean to be a jerk, but... If you've got your headlights on plus your
fog lights in clear weather at night you are a dumbass as far as I know.
Your fog lights throw a much wider light path which will necessarily blind
oncoming drivers when the weather is clear. I always thought this kind of
irresponsibility was reserved for beemer and jap car drivers... I'll tell
you plain, if it's a clear night and your on some old dirt road in VT and
don't turn those fog lights off when a vehicle approaches, you'll run the
risk of having 'em shot out... No Bull!
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