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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

What is it with people who think that fog lights are to be used at all times regardless of the weather conditions? This morning I had a moron who decided to ride the arse of my car all the while dazzling me with his fucking fog lights.

What really gets me is these cocks never seem to use them when it's actually foggy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas."

I must confess I have a bad habit of the break thing

It also bugs me the tits with only one headlight or no headlights but fucking fog lights only.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Haha well put both of you, drives me insane.

I don't use any lights, I ate all my carrots when I was younger #nightvision

I do like to remind people they have their fog lights on at traffic lights

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold

I don't need them ...

Rudolph's nose lights my way

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

I must confess I have a bad habit of the break thing

"

Take a spank as punishment

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

I must confess I have a bad habit of the break thing

Take a spank as punishment"

Spank taken

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By *orny IrishMan
over a year ago

Rural Wiltshire


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

I must confess I have a bad habit of the break thing

It also bugs me the tits with only one headlight or no headlights but fucking fog lights only. "

Having your foot on the brake can lead to increased rear end accidents at junctions. As the idiot behind sees your brake lights go off and starts moving when you haven't. I always use the handbrake if I am sat for anytime.

My pet hate is rear fog lights when you can see the twenty cars in front and the fog is not thick.

It's a shame there is not more police to enforce these rules such as using front fogs only in poor visibility conditions.

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By *angerdaveMan
over a year ago

NOTTINGHAM

I got a fine for leaving my fog lights on when it was not foggy 80pounds could have just told me to turn them off but he was a tit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I got a fine for leaving my fog lights on when it was not foggy 80pounds could have just told me to turn them off but he was a tit"

I'll bet you don't forget to turn them off now though.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I got a fine for leaving my fog lights on when it was not foggy 80pounds could have just told me to turn them off but he was a tit"

Nobody likes being fined but if the police done this more often people would stop breaking small laws.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas."

There do seem to be loads of drivers who won't use the handbrake. Either footbrake as you say or ride the clutch.

Lazy buggers!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I got a fine for leaving my fog lights on when it was not foggy 80pounds could have just told me to turn them off but he was a tit"

Good man, wish more were fined!

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By *irceWoman
over a year ago

Gloucester


"I got a fine for leaving my fog lights on when it was not foggy 80pounds could have just told me to turn them off but he was a tit

Good man, wish more were fined! "

Paying the police share holders fines...Gestepo Nation..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

There do seem to be loads of drivers who won't use the handbrake. Either footbrake as you say or ride the clutch.

Lazy buggers! "

I don't ride the clutch as my car is stop start I just sit with foot on break out of habit not laziness

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

These are all my pet hates haha..Plus people who can't see that headlights will be appearing around a bend..I've already worked out a car will be appearing and dipped my lights but they don't dip until they've blinded you for 5 seconds!

If someone fails to dip lights behind me I flash my fog lights at them

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By *inglenfreeMan
over a year ago

london

If you have a car with stop start then when you have your foot on break the engine shuts down. You have to keep your foot on the brake because when you lift it the engine starts. If you were to apply the handbrake and take your foot of the foot brake then you have to re start the engine before you can drive off, you would then be behind me with your hand on the hooter because all of us with the technology would be starting the ignition. Oh and by the way my car is not fitted with a handbrake

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?


" Oh and by the way my car is not fitted with a handbrake

"

I don't know of any car that doesn't have a secondary brake (hand, electronic, pull lever etc) what do you drive.

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?

I think fog lights should

A) on a limited timer so you have to turn on regularly

B) have a FOG sensor

C) front only available with dipped beam (not side lights)

D) default to off position when the engine is shut off (I know new cars do, just thinking about older cars)

E) fog lights should be in pairs and not part of the brake / side light cluster.

O no.... I think I'm almost ranting and it's not Thursday... Oops..

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By *sh6866Man
over a year ago

halifax

what gets my goat is when i've been following someone for miles and miles....THEN they switch the fog lights on!!! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE YOU PILLOCK!!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"If you have a car with stop start then when you have your foot on break the engine shuts down. You have to keep your foot on the brake because when you lift it the engine starts. If you were to apply the handbrake and take your foot of the foot brake then you have to re start the engine before you can drive off, you would then be behind me with your hand on the hooter because all of us with the technology would be starting the ignition. Oh and by the way my car is not fitted with a handbrake

"

Mine and other cars I've driven with start stop only stop on the clutch I can only imagine yours is an automatic hence only working on foot break

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sitting with your foot on the foot brake at traffic lights is dangerous as if you are impacted from the rear your foot will come off the brake and the car will move. This would be considered a 'major' in the UK driving test. When stationary the handbrake should be applied.

In my experience also, travelling several thousand miles per month with my work, the reason that idiots often forget to switch off their foglights is either due to their car being a poorly maintained Cyclops without them, or their hand is too busy operating their mobile phone instead of the controls within the vehicle!!!

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman
over a year ago

stourbridge area


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas."

Sorry .... I wont do it again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

Sorry .... I wont do it again "

Thank you. I'm in no need of mobile corrective eye surgery at the moment

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What gets me with the fog lights thing is there is a light on the dash showing the driver that they are on but they still don't turn them off just like the indecator thing clicking away as well as the light and they drive for miles with it still going

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What gets me with the fog lights thing is there is a light on the dash showing the driver that they are on but they still don't turn them off just like the indecator thing clicking away as well as the light and they drive for miles with it still going "

Don't be so sensible, who actually checks their instruments while they're driving. It's not as if they give you important information after all.

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham


"What gets me with the fog lights thing is there is a light on the dash showing the driver that they are on but they still don't turn them off just like the indecator thing clicking away as well as the light and they drive for miles with it still going

Don't be so sensible, who actually checks their instruments while they're driving. It's not as if they give you important information after all. "
they're too busy on their mobiles to be checking anything else

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By *inglenfreeMan
over a year ago

london


"If you have a car with stop start then when you have your foot on break the engine shuts down. You have to keep your foot on the brake because when you lift it the engine starts. If you were to apply the handbrake and take your foot of the foot brake then you have to re start the engine before you can drive off, you would then be behind me with your hand on the hooter because all of us with the technology would be starting the ignition. Oh and by the way my car is not fitted with a handbrake

Mine and other cars I've driven with start stop only stop on the clutch I can only imagine yours is an automatic hence only working on foot break"

Your correct its an automatic have driven auto cars for at least 30 years.

Still getting used to the stop start as only had it a month Have always put car in neutral and hand brake (Hate predictive text )on.

on since I learnt to drive

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By *r and mrs sanddancerCouple
over a year ago

BOLDON COLLIERY

One big problem with front fog lights i the fact most drivers hand books refer to them as "driving lights" not fog lights

hence people use them when driving

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I find they never bloody use them when it's foggy, and we can get real pea souper weather here sometimes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I find they never bloody use them when it's foggy, and we can get real pea souper weather here sometimes. "
Love that part of the world. Born in Hereford, yeah the Severn and the Wye can throw off some thick fog!

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By *eedsandyMan
over a year ago

Leeds

The fog lights on when it's totally clear problem is not the problem that it used to be.

The problem now is either the latest BMW/Mercedes/Audi etc with the ultra bright led/laser headlights.

Or it's the old chav car and the owner has uprated the candle power original headlights to Audi spec, but bought the kit from China online for £1.99 and they just blind everyone on the road.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But if I don't have my fog lights on when it isn't foggy how will you all know I'm a bad boy.

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By *orny IrishMan
over a year ago

Rural Wiltshire


"If you have a car with stop start then when you have your foot on break the engine shuts down. You have to keep your foot on the brake because when you lift it the engine starts. If you were to apply the handbrake and take your foot of the foot brake then you have to re start the engine before you can drive off, you would then be behind me with your hand on the hooter because all of us with the technology would be starting the ignition. Oh and by the way my car is not fitted with a handbrake

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What car do you drive as every car has a mechanical brake applied to the rear brakes. It just may be controlled by a button. In that case a lot if manufacturers have added the feature to allow you to hold the car without the foot brake.

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By *uffnsmovCouple
over a year ago

Leeds/Wakefield


"If you have a car with stop start then when you have your foot on break the engine shuts down. You have to keep your foot on the brake because when you lift it the engine starts. If you were to apply the handbrake and take your foot of the foot brake then you have to re start the engine before you can drive off, you would then be behind me with your hand on the hooter because all of us with the technology would be starting the ignition. Oh and by the way my car is not fitted with a handbrake

"

Get rid of it before its 3 years old then.....hand brake i's a generic term for a parking brake you muse have one of those

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By *otwife90Couple
over a year ago

catterick

I don't get this whole dazzled by front fog lights thing, never in 20 years of driving have I ever been dazzled by front fog lights (I use them all the time at night when in unlit b roads btw). Rear fogs on the other hand are dazzling when people use them when it isn't foggy.

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Car decides when the lights are on, I'll talk to it....

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman
over a year ago

stourbridge area

Ive a stop start car .....my little fiat ....when it stops I restart it as I engage the clutch ....but u can turn it off...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I drive a transit as. Weapon of choice and the fog lights horn brakes etc are there for battle

If you see me commin...Move over

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By *eedsandyMan
over a year ago

Leeds


"I don't get this whole dazzled by front fog lights thing, never in 20 years of driving have I ever been dazzled by front fog lights (I use them all the time at night when in unlit b roads btw). Rear fogs on the other hand are dazzling when people use them when it isn't foggy."

Then you are a poor driver. The point of headlights is the throw light as far down the road as possible as that is where you should be looking.

The point of fog lights is for the left one to illuminate the kerb and the right one to throw light just in front the the front bumper so that the light does not bounce back in the fog and dazzle you, and so that you can drive slowly following the road immediately ahead and by following the kerb.

You should not be looking there when the night is clear and there is no need to illuminate that part of the road. It is also illegal and carries a £30 fine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I totally agree with you, one of the things that really annoys me is cars coming from slip roads and expect you to move over I'm sure it says in the highway code give way to traffic from the right

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I totally agree with you, one of the things that really annoys me is cars coming from slip roads and expect you to move over I'm sure it says in the highway code give way to traffic from the right"

Honest I've had transits that look like they sideswiped a chieftain tank..Nobody messes around with a battle scarred long wheel base transit pulling out or over on you as they know who doesn't bottle it

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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago

Wakefield

In fog it is better to switch off the headlights and run on sidelights plus foglights.

Dipped beanm headlights scatter light up in fog.

Sidelights and foglights allow you to see through fog far more clearly.

That is why the law allows drivers to use sidelights and foglights without dipped beam headlights

Requirements about the use of headlamps and front fog lamps in seriously reduced visibility.

25.—(1) Save as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a vehicle which is fitted with obligatory dipped-beam headlamps unless every such lamp is kept lit–

(a)during the hours of darkness, except on a road which is a restricted road for the purposes of section 81 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 by virtue of a system of street lighting when it is lit; and

(b)in seriously reduced visibility.

(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply–

(a)in the case of a motor vehicle fitted with one obligatory dipped-beam headlamp or a solo motor bicycle or motor bicycle combination fitted with a pair of obligatory dipped-beam headlamps, if a main-beam headlamp or a front fog lamp is kept lit;

(b)in the case of a motor vehicle, other than a solo motor bicycle or motor bicycle combination, fitted with a pair of obligatory dipped-beam headlamps, if–

(i)a pair of main-beam headlamps is kept lit; or

(ii)in seriously reduced visibility, a pair of front fog lamps which is so fitted that the outermost part of the illuminated area of each lamp in the pair is not more than 400 mm from the outer edge of the vehicle is kept lit;

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge


"What gets me with the fog lights thing is there is a light on the dash showing the driver that they are on but they still don't turn them off just like the indecator thing clicking away as well as the light and they drive for miles with it still going "
but the light fingy is pwitie and matches my phone

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"This and poorly adjusted headlights that may as well be main beams.

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

There do seem to be loads of drivers who won't use the handbrake. Either footbrake as you say or ride the clutch.

Lazy buggers! "

Who cares??

If this sort of thing gets you sufficiently unhappy then I wonder that you are given control over a vehicle of your own.

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

Low level front fog lights are not dazzling. They are designed such that they put light on the road surface as opposed to scattering it in the air/fog where it diffuses and can cause even worse visibility.

The rear fog lamp can be dazzling a little but I think there is an element of socially perpetuated overreaction going on here.

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By *r and mrs sanddancerCouple
over a year ago

BOLDON COLLIERY


"Low level front fog lights are not dazzling. They are designed such that they put light on the road surface as opposed to scattering it in the air/fog where it diffuses and can cause even worse visibility.

The rear fog lamp can be dazzling a little but I think there is an element of socially perpetuated overreaction going on here. "

It's not so much the dazzle from the rear fog lights, but the fact that they are the same intensity as the brake lights, so it is difficult to see when the car in front is braking,

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"Low level front fog lights are not dazzling. They are designed such that they put light on the road surface as opposed to scattering it in the air/fog where it diffuses and can cause even worse visibility.

The rear fog lamp can be dazzling a little but I think there is an element of socially perpetuated overreaction going on here.

It's not so much the dazzle from the rear fog lights, but the fact that they are the same intensity as the brake lights, so it is difficult to see when the car in front is braking,

"

It's not. There is one fog lamp and they are to the side of the car. There is always a brake light in the centre of the rear of the car. If there are two bright lights lower and one in the centre of the top on, then the car is braking. If there is only one light on and the car is not slowing down, it's probably a fog lamp

If you are so close you don't have time to look, you are too close.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Rear fog lights on, when theres no fog are worse. Instant loss of license.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Low level front fog lights are not dazzling. They are designed such that they put light on the road surface as opposed to scattering it in the air/fog where it diffuses and can cause even worse visibility.

The rear fog lamp can be dazzling a little but I think there is an element of socially perpetuated overreaction going on here. "

May I ask why they are called fog lights if your ok to use them when not foggy. As for not dazzling try having a 4x4s fog lights in your rear view mirror when there's no poor visibility so no reason for them to be on.

There's simply no reason to use them unless a) it's foggy b) they are your turning lights like many cars now have. Surely the headlights should suffice to light the road ahead.

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"Low level front fog lights are not dazzling. They are designed such that they put light on the road surface as opposed to scattering it in the air/fog where it diffuses and can cause even worse visibility.

The rear fog lamp can be dazzling a little but I think there is an element of socially perpetuated overreaction going on here.

May I ask why they are called fog lights if your ok to use them when not foggy. As for not dazzling try having a 4x4s fog lights in your rear view mirror when there's no poor visibility so no reason for them to be on.

There's simply no reason to use them unless a) it's foggy b) they are your turning lights like many cars now have. Surely the headlights should suffice to light the road ahead. "

Fine, but it's not the end of the world. It does little or no harm.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Can cause harm if who was being dazzled hit something or someone.

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"Can cause harm if who was being dazzled hit something or someone. "

Yes but that doesn't happen when people are driving otherwise safely.

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By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago

sandwell


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What car do you drive as every car has a mechanical brake applied to the rear brakes. "

Just to be pedantic ...'Proper' Land Rovers don't. They have a transmission brake (to reduce the chance of mud and crap stopping the actual brake from working) but same effect

The biggest problem I find at the moment are morons who leave it all up to the car. Fog and the sun trying to burn it off is not that dark and the car just thinks it is overcast and puts no lights on at all. Add that to a perfectly camouflaged silver car and you have an accident just waiting to happen.

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By *arewithmeMan
over a year ago

Craven Arms


" what gets my goat is when i've been following someone for miles and miles....THEN they switch the fog lights on!!! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE YOU PILLOCK!!!! "

So true, then because the're not needed they dazzel you, my answer is Main Beam

!!!!

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By *arewithmeMan
over a year ago

Craven Arms


"Low level front fog lights are not dazzling. They are designed such that they put light on the road surface as opposed to scattering it in the air/fog where it diffuses and can cause even worse visibility.

The rear fog lamp can be dazzling a little but I think there is an element of socially perpetuated overreaction going on here.

It's not so much the dazzle from the rear fog lights, but the fact that they are the same intensity as the brake lights, so it is difficult to see when the car in front is braking,

It's not. There is one fog lamp and they are to the side of the car. There is always a brake light in the centre of the rear of the car. If there are two bright lights lower and one in the centre of the top on, then the car is braking. If there is only one light on and the car is not slowing down, it's probably a fog lamp

If you are so close you don't have time to look, you are too close. "

Incorrect, I have rear fog light on my car but NO 3rd centre brake light, this is how it came from the Ford factory !!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Can cause harm if who was being dazzled hit something or someone.

Yes but that doesn't happen when people are driving otherwise safely."

And part of driving safely would be to turn off the fog lights and only use when it's actually needed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you're really being dazzled by a fog light you could just back off from up their arse.

I can think of lots of times when I've thought 'twat' to somebody without their lights on, but not for leaving a fog light on.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"If you're really being dazzled by a fog light you could just back off from up their arse.

I can think of lots of times when I've thought 'twat' to somebody without their lights on, but not for leaving a fog light on."

I'm actually talking about front fog lights which I think is quite obvious. Like you say I too have thought 'twat' to someone without their lights on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you're really being dazzled by a fog light you could just back off from up their arse.

I can think of lots of times when I've thought 'twat' to somebody without their lights on, but not for leaving a fog light on.

I'm actually talking about front fog lights which I think is quite obvious. Like you say I too have thought 'twat' to someone without their lights on. "

Too be fair I've probably thought 'twat' to people with front fog lights on without knowing that's what they were. I just thought they were on full beam

There are so many bloody lights now. But yes the worst are the ones who don't use them when it is actually foggy.

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By *otwife90Couple
over a year ago

catterick


"I don't get this whole dazzled by front fog lights thing, never in 20 years of driving have I ever been dazzled by front fog lights (I use them all the time at night when in unlit b roads btw). Rear fogs on the other hand are dazzling when people use them when it isn't foggy.

Have you ever been dazzled my somebodies front fogs? If not what's the harm in using them?

Then you are a poor driver. The point of headlights is the throw light as far down the road as possible as that is where you should be looking.

The point of fog lights is for the left one to illuminate the kerb and the right one to throw light just in front the the front bumper so that the light does not bounce back in the fog and dazzle you, and so that you can drive slowly following the road immediately ahead and by following the kerb.

You should not be looking there when the night is clear and there is no need to illuminate that part of the road. It is also illegal and carries a £30 fine."

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By *otwife90Couple
over a year ago

catterick

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By *arewithmeMan
over a year ago

Craven Arms

Dip the rear view mirror, thats what that function is there for,,,,,,,,,,,,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I don't get this whole dazzled by front fog lights thing, never in 20 years of driving have I ever been dazzled by front fog lights (I use them all the time at night when in unlit b roads btw). Rear fogs on the other hand are dazzling when people use them when it isn't foggy.

Have you ever been dazzled my somebodies front fogs? If not what's the harm in using them?

Then you are a poor driver. The point of headlights is the throw light as far down the road as possible as that is where you should be looking.

The point of fog lights is for the left one to illuminate the kerb and the right one to throw light just in front the the front bumper so that the light does not bounce back in the fog and dazzle you, and so that you can drive slowly following the road immediately ahead and by following the kerb.

You should not be looking there when the night is clear and there is no need to illuminate that part of the road. It is also illegal and carries a £30 fine."

I too find it annoying almost as much as drivers going around with one light missing. FFS a bulb doesn't cost that much to replace!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And this is from the Highway Code:

You must not use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 226) as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves.

You must use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced, generally when you cannot see for more than 100 metres (328 feet). You may also use front or rear fog lights but you MUST switch them off when visibility improves.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Dip the rear view mirror, thats what that function is there for,,,,,,,,,,,,"

Agreed, but then why should people have to adjust their mirror just to suit a bellend who thinks their front fog lights make their car look better. As the previous poster put up about the highway code. Fog lights are there to help when visibility is reduced.

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By *arewithmeMan
over a year ago

Craven Arms

I agree, why should you have to dip it, i don't like dipping mine but when you get the fog lights and dip lights in the mirror its a solution..........

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas."

One of my cars is an auto so that's my excuse for keeping the brake on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

One of my cars is an auto so that's my excuse for keeping the brake on"

No parking brake and neutral on it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

One of my cars is an auto so that's my excuse for keeping the brake on

No parking brake and neutral on it? "

I wondered what that button was for!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

One of my cars is an auto so that's my excuse for keeping the brake on

No parking brake and neutral on it?

I wondered what that button was for!!! "

One of youre cars!!....i only have one

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

This thread should get a gold award.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There was bad fog on the A34 southbound last Saturday. A lot of cars, and some lorries had NO lights on. This is far worse in my view. Also, many lorries have uselessly dim rear lights in comparison with cars. Why is this?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Oh and wankers that sit on the brakes at traffic lights/queues, burning red laser beams into my retinas.

One of my cars is an auto so that's my excuse for keeping the brake on

No parking brake and neutral on it?

I wondered what that button was for!!!

One of youre cars!!....i only have one "

They serve a purpose

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There was bad fog on the A34 southbound last Saturday. A lot of cars, and some lorries had NO lights on. This is far worse in my view. Also, many lorries have uselessly dim rear lights in comparison with cars. Why is this?"

Agreed with you on this, but part of my annoyance with the use of fog lights is most of the knobhead who drive with them on at night don't use them when they actually need them.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"This thread should get a gold award. "

How come??

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"This thread should get a gold award.

How come??"

Because every overreacting Snowflake deserves an award for being such special and clever souls?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"This thread should get a gold award.

How come??

Because every overreacting Snowflake deserves an award for being such special and clever souls?"

Driver safety isn't over reacting but if you think it is then carry on as you are?

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!


"There was bad fog on the A34 southbound last Saturday. A lot of cars, and some lorries had NO lights on. This is far worse in my view. Also, many lorries have uselessly dim rear lights in comparison with cars. Why is this?"

Agreed! When you consider how hot VOSA or whatever they call themselves are with lorries regarding condition and inspections, it`s surprising they haven`t called for lights to be upgraded. Even more so when you consider it doesn`t take very long at all for lorry rear lights to get mucky and with driving time restricted they can`t always be pulling over at every services to clean their lights!

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"This thread should get a gold award.

How come??"

Cos ...... it made me realise that I needed to gen up on fog lights where's and whens on my car ...... so Ta x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sitting with your foot on the foot brake at traffic lights is dangerous as if you are impacted from the rear your foot will come off the brake and the car will move. This would be considered a 'major' in the UK driving test. When stationary the handbrake should be applied.

In my experience also, travelling several thousand miles per month with my work, the reason that idiots often forget to switch off their foglights is either due to their car being a poorly maintained Cyclops without them, or their hand is too busy operating their mobile phone instead of the controls within the vehicle!!!"

What about those cars without a handbrake and automatic lights? Nothing to do with Maintainace or being on the phone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My lower lights used turn on automatically in my last car, doesn't always mean they are fog lights.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wait a minute someone giving out spankings. Right am guilty of everything above plus guilty of wearing the same socks for a month And you can blame me for the weather

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By *r and mrs sanddancerCouple
over a year ago

BOLDON COLLIERY


"My lower lights used turn on automatically in my last car, doesn't always mean they are fog lights. "

There will have been a switch you did not find

Only fog lights are allowed to be on with side light. extra "driving lights" are only allowed on with main beam, and must go out automatically when on dipped beam

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"Sitting with your foot on the foot brake at traffic lights is dangerous as if you are impacted from the rear your foot will come off the brake and the car will move. This would be considered a 'major' in the UK driving test. When stationary the handbrake should be applied.

In my experience also, travelling several thousand miles per month with my work, the reason that idiots often forget to switch off their foglights is either due to their car being a poorly maintained Cyclops without them, or their hand is too busy operating their mobile phone instead of the controls within the vehicle!!!

What about those cars without a handbrake and automatic lights? Nothing to do with Maintainace or being on the phone"

It's amazing that you were able to be in two cars at once so often to read the service book and see what the driver is up to.

Some of the worst drivers I know drive professionally. Adding that you drive lots each week doesn't put you on a higher plane of knowledge than us commoners. It simply means you spend more time driving than other. But that could be more time driving badly...

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By *irkby coupleCouple
over a year ago

Kirkby

I hate people that hog the lane, if your on a road with more then 1 lane, your suppose to drive in the left lane!

I also hate these people who sit in big que's when there is another filter lane next to them empty, then when you use it, the pull out and block you because your smart enough to use it and get to the front of the que

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