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Originally Posted by myrefugeisintheLord
Otto, I just HAVE to ask....  does your BMW have angel eyes???  |
Nah. Too riceboyish for me.
Besides, in the lighting department I have too much to worry about keeping fog lights installed and working: Between thieves in the Seattle UDistrict making a very good living swiping such stuff off parked cars, and the low-down mounting of those lights as a magnet for rocks, the fog lights have a very short life span.
So, I bought some uber-cheapo Chinese crap fogs off eBay, to plug and play, or so I thought. Lasted, oh, 20 minutes before the cheapo Chinese crap pivot mount broke, dropping the lens assembly to bounce along the road secured by its tether (the wire). So, the cheapo Chinese crap fog light cost me about $1.50 per minute of its short life. More if you figure in my time to replace it with something that actually might work.
Not from China.... You'd
think those people, having pirated the whole concept, would have the decency to at least use less flimsy plastic. But, noooooo.
Probably (esp. since the fog nights are basically cosmetic and add nothing discernible to night driving visibility--turned on or off the view ahead seems the same) I should either just plug the fog light holes with flush covers or use them as brake cooling inlets or to feed an "air curtain" like the latest BMWs do. This is a slot of ram air fed from the forward (10 o'clock position) of the wheel well/fender, which blocks or attenuates the turbulent air thrown forward by the tire rotation, the tire being a crude turbine and turbulater. This air curtain reduces aero drag. The ram air inlet could also be a handy place to feed an oil cooler, etc..