What signals the fogs to turn off (on high beams)?
09-21-2018, 10:41 PM
#21
Drifting
Counterpoint to 1 being that if you're driving in a situation where you can use your high beams, you don't need your fog lights, only low beams. Of course, that's also assuming you don't have the crappy stock headlights and aren't using the fogs as a replacement for your low beams.
09-21-2018, 11:33 PM
#22
Burning Brakes
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Counterpoint to 1 being that if you're driving in a situation where you can use your high beams, you don't need your fog lights, only low beams. Of course, that's also assuming you don't have the crappy stock headlights and aren't using the fogs as a replacement for your low beams.
09-26-2018, 12:26 PM
#24
Le Mans Master
They are re-aimed to place their cut off just below the low beams.
Install 55-watt HIDs in your stock fog projectors.
09-27-2018, 02:32 PM
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I understand most of us try to use our cars in better weather (unless they are our daily driver), but if you travel long distances with your C5 it is possible to run into unplanned fog. I ran into one fog so bad in Florida you couldn't even read the exit signs on the Interstate. Of course, we stopped as soon as possible at a hotel but finding it was challenging.
09-27-2018, 05:26 PM
#26
Le Mans Master
I agree higher wattage lighting (HID/LED), and adjusting the beam could benefit normal nighttime vision, but wouldn't this cancel out their ability to really serve as fog lights when/if needed?
I understand most of us try to use our cars in better weather (unless they are our daily driver), but if you travel long distances with your C5 it is possible to run into unplanned fog. I ran into one fog so bad in Florida you couldn't even read the exit signs on the Interstate. Of course, we stopped as soon as possible at a hotel but finding it was challenging.
I understand most of us try to use our cars in better weather (unless they are our daily driver), but if you travel long distances with your C5 it is possible to run into unplanned fog. I ran into one fog so bad in Florida you couldn't even read the exit signs on the Interstate. Of course, we stopped as soon as possible at a hotel but finding it was challenging.
The stock fog setup was useless for actual fog.........so I repurposed the stock projectors and put them to good use.
To each his own.
09-27-2018, 10:08 PM
#27
Le Mans Master
I agree higher wattage lighting (HID/LED), and adjusting the beam could benefit normal nighttime vision, but wouldn't this cancel out their ability to really serve as fog lights when/if needed?
I understand most of us try to use our cars in better weather (unless they are our daily driver), but if you travel long distances with your C5 it is possible to run into unplanned fog. I ran into one fog so bad in Florida you couldn't even read the exit signs on the Interstate. Of course, we stopped as soon as possible at a hotel but finding it was challenging.
I understand most of us try to use our cars in better weather (unless they are our daily driver), but if you travel long distances with your C5 it is possible to run into unplanned fog. I ran into one fog so bad in Florida you couldn't even read the exit signs on the Interstate. Of course, we stopped as soon as possible at a hotel but finding it was challenging.
that don't sound like the situation the OP is in...
09-27-2018, 10:24 PM
#28
Burning Brakes
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Zero use for fog lights here in AZ. The closest thing we get is black out dust storms (literally can't see 2 feet in front of you), but then nothing is cutting through that. I need/want as much light as I can get when out on the back country roads/state highways as there are always coyotes, wild burros, etc. that randomly show up in the road. The further out I can see them, the more time both I have to stop and they have to get out of the way.
