Front Fog Lights

[Guest benglx]

hi all,i am bidding on ebay for some front fog lights for my 99"glx,as i have been told these will be a straight forward fit into the front bumper/spoiler.please can someone tell me if the wires are allready there as standard, so all i need will be the interior switch :o :o :o :rolleyes:

[Guest benglx]

the cables should be there already, you will need a new switch and possibly the relay as well? depending on high the bidding goes? if it gets silly

[Guest benglx]

Phoned our local polar ford garage spares depo,and was quoted

[Guest Boggler]

I paid

[Guest SA Intruder]

Never used them on Mondeo or Alhambra

 

No reason to use them.

 

Pointless in the extreme.

[Guest SA Intruder]

Seems to be the thing to do these days. Every freakin Citroen or Pug with a pin-dick in it has them on....

 

What was I saying about Xenon headlights? Need some effin Laser shooters!

[Tigger]

Fog Lights on the Mk2 are not as good or bright as the Mk1!

[Guest benglx]

i only paided

[Richmond]

So far as I can see, I have to have the front fogs on in order to have the rear fogs on. On the very few occasions when I have used them (in order to use the rear fogs), the front fogs seem to make no discernible improvement in visibility.

 

I can just about remember driving in some really thick fogs :angry: when I was a kid (early 1960s) when front fogs were useful; I seem to remeber my mum walking in front of the n/s of the car because my dad couldn't see the edge of the road! Stopping might have been an option worth considering, but I suppose drivers had a more robust attitude then. They (front fogs, not my parents) seem to be a bit of a waste of money these days, thanks presumably to the 'clean air' legislation of the 1960s.

[seatkid]

You're pulling too hard! :angry: When you pull out the light switch to the 1st detent only the front fogs come on, pulling out to the 2nd detent both front and rears come on. :)

 

The headlight on my alhambra arent that good :( , and at the risk of incurring SA's wrath ;) , I find that foglamps make a big difference.(when you've got iffy eyesight like me, :) after all I'm 95 years old :) :lol: ) Apart from bad weather, I use them on B roads when there is poor or no road marking (on the continent mainly) or on twisty difficult routes (e.g. Pennine routes)

It allows me to see and judge the edges of the road. Most modern cars with low set foglights don't bother me at all.

 

Rant: Badly glaring headlights from using poor quality bulbs bother me a lot.- see http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/product_test/...ry.php?id=39920 Autoexpress product report on bulbs - quite an eyopener B). Rear fogs in good weather is a definite no no. I do wish taxi drivers with tired rear bulbs or boy racers with those black clusters would all be arrested.....

 

Once got pulled over by police in Poland for driving on fogs without any fog. There were no road or edge markings of any description, roads were filthy, without fogs it would have been impossible to say where the road was, I wonder if having an accident was more acceptable. :)

 

Not sure those little round foglights on the MkII Sharalaxies are any good - do they spread the light properly sideways or are they just for show?

[Guest SA Intruder]

From my experience, using the Front Fogs at the appropriate time, when there is actually Fog, makes no difference to the ability to see the road ahead. There is a marginal improvement in the kerb illumination, but basically cock-all.

 

For that reason, I regard them as ornaments.

 

Saxo owners regard them as phallic extensions.

[Ivor_E_Tower]

I feel a visit to the scrappies coming on for you......

 

Had front foglamps put on my Scenic 3 years ago. Renault kit was about

[Guest benglx]

this goes from bad to worse,after getting a bargain with the lights found out from ford the switch alone will cot

[seatkid]

Maybe the switch is the same as another model (Mondeo??? Golf????)

 

B) If you want decide not to procede and its a Mk 1 Galaxy, I might be interested in buying the offside unit and surround if the price is right..:rolleyes:

[seatkid]

[MrT]

It is illegal to drive with fogs on in the UK unless the visibility is less than 100m. (Reference Law RVLR reg 27). It is amazing how many people don't know this and use them in other conditions.

[Guest costeau]

The VW light switch that's fitted in the first generation Shalaxies (up to 2000)

has its limitations:

- You can't use the rear fog light without having to use the front ones too.

- You can't use the rear fog light without having to use the front omes AND the

ordinary front driving (dipped beam) lights too.

 

Dunno if the same limitations apply to the 2000 and up generation.

 

I've found the front fog lights very useful, the few times we have fog here.

Same with the rear fog lights, but I've had a few situations where I need to use the rear fog light without turning on the front ones. :)

 

We have legislations about using the front fog lights here in Norway too.

We're not allowed to use them together with the dipped beams. :)

 

Most ppl here don't give a sod about it, and overuse them at their own comfort.

Some nutters have even calculated a few tickets for speeding, light abuse and mobile use without hands free equipment into their household budget. :)

 

I haven't been bothered by others using them, probably because I'm sitting so high up in my Galaxy.

(No. I'm not saying we're spoilt. :) )

What bothers me, is those @

[Dave-G]

costeo...."I use the front fog lights whenever I actually find them handy" :)

 

So,it's ok for YOU to break the rules when it suits you, but not others when it dont suit you? :)

 

"people who live in glass houses" springs to mind....

[seatkid]

Com'on Dave - are you a road angel? :)

[Guest dumpie]

I swich em off if ive ad a beer. :)

[Guest costeau]

So,it's ok for YOU to break the rules when it suits you, but not others when it dont suit you? :blink:

Nah. As I said, it doesn't bother me if others use their front fog lights.

What I'm trying to say is that people should use common sense,

and use these lights whenever there's a practical use for them.

 

I don't like the name "fog lights" about the ones in front,

since they can be used for lighting up the roadsides and curvy roads at night.

The one in rear for this purpose is solely to be visible to other drivers,

in foggy weather, and has no other use afaik.

 

Also, I mentioned that the rear fog light is A LOT more bothersome than the front ones, and as far as I can see, the front ones are more handy than ornamental.

Driving on the motorway behind someone with their rear fog light turned on,

is really annoying, compared to a meeting vehicle with the front fog lights on.

[Dave-G]

Ahem,well I overtake slow drivers on roundabouts for example,unless they block the lanes,but i dont bitch when somebody else overtakes me :o

 

The point I was making is that we should'nt condemn others for doing what we do, but more noticeably.....

 

He acknowledges that he uses fog's as drivings...so thats ok then......even though it may annoy others....

 

which also annoys me,as I flash mine at them in the hope that they may realise they're on,only to realise that they probably DO know...and dont care....etc...looks good......I got extra lights.....I'm special.....do they match my others? ...etc . . . .drone. . . . . . . . . . . . :blink:

 

 

 

 

I too have noted Fredt's absence...I hope he's ok

[Guest tootall]

I (far too) regularly plough up and down the M40 for work and notice the high number of front-fog-illuminated motors, in otherwise reasonable visibility...

 

Mind you, the number of times I have travelled the enitre distance of the motorway with either ALL the matrix signs flashing "FOG" or "50" for no reason at all is witnout number, so perhaps they're just being old-fashioned, belt-and-braces safe!

 

My old GhiaX had front fogs and they did make a difference - sadly some scrote removed the said device and my replacement GLX has no front fogs.

 

Still, it doesn't stink of vomit like the old one did, after my dear beloved honked everywhere just prior to its purloinment, after enjoying a particularly successful (!) Hen night, when yours truly was the taxi driver for her gang of drunken, slobbering mates (and Mum.)

 

Now, where was I??

 

Ah yes, fogs.

 

Still want to get round to fitting them, as I have done 38,000 since buying the beast back in Nov 2003 - and it's only JUST into 2005...

[Guest tootall]

And another thing... does anyone know whether there's a "Day-running" light set-up in the Fraud?SEAT/VW family line-up that's nickable for the Sharalambaxy??

 

I have my heads on all day every day (comes from starting off on a motorbike and ALWAYS being invisible!!) but I was wondering whether to get an auto-sparks to fit a Volvo-style kit so they're on all the time the engine's running.

 

In Canada, all cars have daytime-running heads and not just cos they're in total darkness for 3 months!

[Guest vr6galaxy]

Day light running lights are available on the continent as OE for the Galaxy to fit them to yours would involve fitting the correct rated restance wire and relay into the lighting circuit, IIRC the DLR's are the dipped beam bulbs powered via a resistance wire, with the ignition on but the lights off the power is fed to the bulbs via the resistance wire this drops the power to them, and they run dimmer than normal, when the lights are switched on the relay transfers the power back down the normal wire and the lights work on full power

IIRC HELLA do a after market set of DLR's to fit all vehicles thEy were available at carnoisseur part number 345 6445 not sure if they still stock them? the other place I have seen them is in an old demon tweeks book they may be worth a ring?