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Old 03-01-2011, 07:54 PM   #8 (permalink)
Zerohour
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Well I will admit, if you driving down roads without lines, than fog lights are very helpful. But if you're on properly painted road in heavy fog, they give you some since of guidance. There are days, that in the morning, the valley will fill with fog. I leave my house and drive off into the mist. Doesn't happen often. But the painted lines in front of the car are basically the guiding lines. If not for them, you pretty much wouldn't be able to tell where you are going when you escape the tree lines and hit the open fields.

I always liked having some extra light in front with snow as well. There are times where you can flood the road with the low aimed fogs and see the road without using the headlights and blinding yourself in "high rate" snow fall.

I would say fogs are pretty useless for 98% of daily driving, but its that other 2% of year I'd rather have them.
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