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Not the wrong reflectors if you are using the specified OSRAM LED bulbs, as they are legal for use as replacement blubs in those reflectors in most of Europe. BTW, your sig says http://northcoast250.com which is incorrect. It is either the North Cost 500 or the North East 250 ;

Or even easier is swapping out the Front fog's for LED lamps.

Yes, there are a LOT of rural roads in the midlands once you get out of the conurbations. I live in a small place just outside Birmingham, not in the conurbation. I also go into Shropshire and wales. No street lights at all for large areas on A road through to lanes. However, I am not doing green lanes or off-road, otherwise it would not matter if they were road legal or not. The fog light pattern illuminates low and wide, which is very useful on unlit winding lanes. There is a big clampdown on street racing in Brum, which has been a problem, The racing not the clampdown :- ) Hence wanting only road legal lights as despite no other mods on my car from standard the police do have spot checks on cars in the winter for tyres and lights, also driving under alcohol (or drugs) and anything else they can spot.

Then is is worth getting the Osram ones that are road legal in most of the EU https://www.osram.co.uk/ecat/LEDriving FL H8-H11-H16-LED fog lamps-Car lighting-Automotive/gb/en/GPS01_3146287/ZMP_4059212/ Data sheet https://www.osram.co.uk/appsj/pdc/pdf.do?cid=GPS01_3146287&vid=MP_EUROPE_UK_eCat&lid=EN&mpid=ZMP_4059212 These will probably be the ones that become road legal in the UK, if any do. Skoda might surprise us and out them in the 2025 Karoq facelift. Though Skoda Uk made no mention of it today. (6th Jan 2025) You will need the shunts though https://www.osram.co.uk/ecat/Accessories for LED retrofit lamps-Car lighting-Automotive/gb/en/GPS01_2941742/ I would think that you are unlikely to be be stopped with them, and if you are it is more likely to be a warning as they are legal in most of Europe in a Karoq. The only real risk is the insurance not paying out and you are happy with that risk

Quite. Hence, a clear and complete description. Especially as one or two in this thread wanted LED fogs whether-or-not they were road legal. So if you want to do it then get the OSRAM H8 that is road legal in some European countries and the shunt kit, but you will still be risking your insurance cover. NOTE A lot of the Chinese and other LED's are not road legal anywhere (even if they have a stamp on them to say they are). It isn't worth fitting them at all. Even off-road.

Finally got to the bottom of it. LED lights have a different light source to other lights. So you need an LED lamp that has been designed to work in the reflector set up on the car that was designed for Tungsten/ Halogen etc. Otherwise, the light pattern is not the same and therefore not legal. There are various types of LED lamp that do work well but won't be road legal because of the non-legal light pattern. Some LED bulbs do have a legal light pattern but... Next is colour: Some countries require certain colour temperatures and tints for certain lights. So some tints or temperatures of LED's lights may look good but not legal for that position on the car (if at all) Others have specific power requirements for certain lights. IE wattage. Due to LED lights drawing a lot less current, you need a shunt (OSRAM do a kit for this) to fool the CAN sensors, otherwise you will show a permanent light error on the dash. So you are going to be drawing the same current as a "normal" bulb. This is why not legal to fit LED's as replacements in a car that was not designed for or fitted with LED's to start with. However... Some LED bulbs are legal as replacement for Tungsten/ Halogen bulbs in some cars in some countries. OSRAM do make some H8 LED fog lamps that are legal for the Karoq in some countries in the EU, but not yet legal in the UK. Talking to OSRAM the technician he pointed out if you have any sort of insurable incident and the insurance companies assessor looks at the car and notices a non-legal LED light (even if the identical lamp in an identical car is legal across 1/2 of Europe) they will say your car is not covered by insurance due to an "illegal modification". When, eventually, the UK legislation catches up later this year, this decade, never, etc you can fit the exact same bulb and be completely legal but until then he advised it just isn't worth it. Especially if the police are doing spot checks for anything and the officer who stops you knows the Karoq front fogs are not supposed to be LED. Asking why he thought all the lights except the front fogs were LED he said "probably" cost. Fractions of a penny make the difference in manufacturing. So in short, you can buy them, but they are not legal in the UK. However, If you regularly drive in [parts of] Europe you can fit them on the ferry heading south and be completely legal....

It depends on the sort of software... I have seen very good code and some appalling stuff. Sadly, standards in automotive infotainment software are very poor and not improving much. At least it is better in the ECU and control systems. Though some design choices leave you wondering what they were thinking.

That has been a known problem for over 35 years and due to the UNIX rollover in 2038 I would be very surprised if it was a date problem in a car made in the last 15 years.

I would not feel safe with the ACC and would prefer the limiter. Though normally I use the CC

Automotive design engineers do get like that. I remember over lunch at an FDA bash one of the BMW designers discussing the Rover 75 weight distribution and tire wear rates. Yes, the Rover 75 was an BMW design. They really do work to the nth decimal place. For example on one of the BMW's they took a Michelin tyre and the version for BMW of that standard high performance Michelin went through a further 2 &1/2 years development and 8 prototypes. However you seemed to have missed the sarcasm in my comments above.

Fuel economy so they can say they can get 3,000 miles per litre on their test track. Therefore, the EC Extra Urban Cycle is 2.353 MPG better than that thing from Nissan/Renault etc. How many people actually get the fuel consumption cited? Many will run the car on the econ setting and leave the plastic inserts in (and we will all feel smug saving the planet) The 18" MIran Alloys don't have plastic inserts but are aerodynamically tuned. The bits that would have been plastic are alloy painted black. I assume the additional weight/cost of the alloy compared to the plastic it replaces is factored in. I suspect someone [German] has calculated all this over the life of the vehicle. The thing is: good aerodynamics, and the Karoq is good in this respect, with the right tyres, properly inflated and good driving style when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, in the age of Aquarius, you will be £500 better off over 3 years!OTOH if you skip one Costa coffee a week you will save £624 on the same time 🙂 Aerodynamic wheels are reducing one variable, of dozens, by a small amount. It all adds up, if you want it too.

Yes I am reading my own thread. The H8 LED lamps are available from yellow through white to blue-white and with power outputs from "normal" to 200% increase. Some will work as "normal" fog lights, others will work as driving lights. Others will be the sort of 200% blue white searchlights I think you were alluding to.

Actually, if there are some decent H8 LED fog lights that are road legal, they will be fog lights and I won't be lit up like that. Too much light is counterproductive in fog. At some point, as with the original car lamps (I mean hot filament not the carbide lamps) will no longer be produced, and we will have to fit LED lights anyway,

If it is road legal for the OSRAM H8 fog lights in other EU countries (the spec sheet indicated as much) then hopefully, it should be technically correct for the car, bus errors, beam pattern etc if not, yet, technically legal in the UK (or GB?). So it would be safe to use on the road and indeed some EU drivers, using them legally will be driving with them in the UK for work/holiday, Also it will be the correct lamp when the law catches up. It would have to be a decision each driver would have to make for themselves. I will see what answer I get out of OSRAM UK.

Don't hold your breath. 🙂 I am expecting a better response from OSRAM than the VW Group.

Local market Type Approval. They will know what is and isn't permissible in their market. Be it lights, wheels, tyres etc. The design teams look in to all this, and the future road maps (sic) and the information is, or should be, disseminated to the national offices.

Ok, fair enough, they are (were?) a no cost option on the SE L when I looked a few weeks ago, though these are the 18" wheels. It might be worth asking the dealer. With the plastic inserts most people say they are very (too?) easy to remove.

Correct. I don't. I rarely ever get fog, other than a couple of days of light mist this week, the last time was years ago. What would be more use for me is driving lights for use on unlit rural roads. SO a whiter more powerful beam would be useful. Also, as all the other lights are LED I can't understand why the front fogs aren't as well even if they are the same pattern and colour. The yellow white is more useful in fog. However, having looked into it, I can see why you just can't swap conventional bulbs for LED or at least not easily to get a legal light that actually works correctly for both beam pattern and re car CAN bus/ODB errors. You can't just chuck in any old H8. It is the way the lamp light source(s) works with the reflector. NOTE, any lamp you use must be E registered and UK road legal. The problem is just because it has "E" on the box..... The Joke was (still is) that the CE marking meant "China Export" and it had been nowhere near any testing 🙂 Especially if it came of EBay, Alibaba or even Amazon these days, Škoda UK are ducking the question and saying ask your local Škoda Dealer. So I will have a chat with my local main dealer and OSRAM. However, Christmas/New Year is not the time to get quick responses. 😞

I think the Miran wheels are still a (no-cost) option. They are also aerodynamic tuned but no plastic inserts. They are all alloy/ See https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196900615961 (couldn't find a Skoda Uk link :-()

I can only echo that comment. When you get the knack it is easy, however, getting the knack.....

The re-formatting frequency will depend on the number of hours you drive and the size of the card. A 32GB card will require re-formatting 4 times more often than 128gb CARD. The higher levels of Sandisk cards have auto wear levelling software. So I can't see the need for re-formatting every 2-3 weeks unless you are a taxi driver with a 32GB card.

Everyone's cards are less expensive than Nextbase!!! SanDisk are a reliable make, as is Kingstone. Lexar used to be good, now I believe they rent out the name.... However, you do need to make sure you buy from a reliable source. There are many places doing counterfit memory cards. Like insurance, it doesn't matter until you haver a problem, then you need it to work. You don't want to have a crash and find that the memory card was corrupt. It is worth checking the contents every couple of months.

Hi There are several threads on dash cams and in one of them somewhere, someone was complaining at the cost of Nextbase memory cards for their dash cams. They are ludicrously expensive. As a video cameraman and editor, I have used a lot of memory cards and sometimes manufacturers do use custom memory cards. RED were infamous for this. I have done some tests and can confirm that on a Nextbase 322gw these cards work. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09X7BK27V at £12 for a 128GB card it is a no-brainer. I recommend using the largest card you can fit (128GB in a 322gw) because flash memory has a finite number of write/erase/re-write cycles. So in a dash-cam the larger the card, the fewer of these cycles there will be. If you don't record dual files (low and high-res) just the high-res the card will last even longer. The spec for a dash cam memory card should be U3, V30 and A2. The A2 is a new measure, but it is for continuous write as used in video cameras where the stream has to find random memory blocks to write to on the fly to fill up space The Camera will determine which file to overwrite when the card is full. See (its accurate, by my god her voice is annoying!) https://www.kingston.com/unitedkingdom/en/blog/personal-storage/microsd-sd-memory-card-guide Incidentally, Kingstone are a very good make (I used them in professional video cameras) and are less expensive than the Sandisk on Amazon. I only used Amazon as I wanted next day delivery and was ordering other things or I would have gone with Kingston.

In The RAC website, though, I may have picked up the EU requirements and UK recommendations. However, as noted by @Ootohere fog lamps can indeed stand in for headlights

That may be where the confusion is.... Between headlights and fog lights. I will see what OSRAM come back with. The other interesting thing is for the UK you must carry a warning triangle, high vis jacket, fire extinguisher, first aid kit and a spare headlamp bulb..... As most modern cars have LED headlight clusters, that is a workshop job to replace, or at least not something you can do beside the road in the dark, how the hell do they expect you to carry a spare headlight? A friend of mine has an AA Universal bulb kit to show the police but admits 3/4 of the bulbs won't fit his car (including the headlights) I assume (silly, I know) that the fog lights are bright enough and in the right position (height etc) to act as headlights in this case?