CL9 Fog light problem driving me INSANE!!

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Originally Posted by Xplodin

I've never had a problem with my fog lights. Besides according to the road rules, fog lights should only be used in adversed weather.
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this is absolutely correct and technically the popo can book the driver for using foggies in clear weather.

however, not many drivers are aware of this, some even drive at night with only foggies on and headlights off... this may look cool to some... but man, my old CL9 and current CU2 foggies hardly illuminate more than 5 meter ahead... this is kind of useless when you're doing 60 - 100 kph.

last year when i drove to Melb, left sydney at midnight, it rained the whole night, i found turning on or off the foggies did not make any difference on the highway.

foggies are meant to be used in thick fog while driving <40kph carefully..

in the past i had no name brand blue tinted bulb replacements for my foggies and somehow one of the bulbs lens exploded and created a mess inside the fog housing. had to take the whole fog lamp off and use vacuum and other things to clean all the mess. so, be careful with what bulb you choose :)

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Originally Posted by natnat

this is absolutely correct and technically the popo can book the driver for using foggies in clear weather.

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"but officer, it's a day light running light...."

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in the past i had no name brand blue tinted bulb replacements for my foggies and somehow one of the bulbs lens exploded and created a mess inside the fog housing. had to take the whole fog lamp off and use vacuum and other things to clean all the mess. so, be careful with what bulb you choose :)

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[/QUOTE] even more reason to get LED's lol!!!!!

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Originally Posted by natnat

this is absolutely correct and technically the popo can book the driver for using foggies in clear weather.

however, not many drivers are aware of this, some even drive at night with only foggies on and headlights off... this may look cool to some... but man, my old CL9 and current CU2 foggies hardly illuminate more than 5 meter ahead... this is kind of useless when you're doing 60 - 100 kph.

last year when i drove to Melb, left sydney at midnight, it rained the whole night, i found turning on or off the foggies did not make any difference on the highway.

foggies are meant to be used in thick fog while driving <40kph carefully..

in the past i had no name brand blue tinted bulb replacements for my foggies and somehow one of the bulbs lens exploded and created a mess inside the fog housing. had to take the whole fog lamp off and use vacuum and other things to clean all the mess. so, be careful with what bulb you choose :)

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A lot of these foogies are no longer acctual foogies but more like cosmestics foggies, and some are to complement the cooler white light as the cooler light cant go thru fog. putting blue bulb or led defeat the purpose of a foggies... but for cosmestic sake, oh well.... :D

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Originally Posted by natnat

my old CL9 and current CU2 foggies hardly illuminate more than 5 meter ahead... this is kind of useless when you're doing 60 - 100 kph.

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You should be able to adjust the fog light alignment using a long Philips head screwdriver through one of the holes in the bumper. Every car I've had with foggies have had them aligned far too low, which really aren't much use even in fog when you only see a meter or so of road ahead of you. I've adjusted mine up slightly so that they cover around 2-3 car lengths, so that you get some useful illumination out of them in fog/rain. The cutoff is still way below the headlights so glare shouldn't be an issue for other drivers.

I have MTEC "Golden style" yellow ones in mine - no problems since I got them in February. Then again, I only run them in heavy rain, so they don't get much use. I find that the yellow light does help with vision in poor weather, especially since the cooler colour of the stock HIDs isn't much good in rain.

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Originally Posted by Fredoops

"but officer, it's a day light running light...."

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Unfortunately, the ECE stamp on the foglight lenses state otherwise! :p