Are cornering fogs worth having or am I best finding someone with VCDS to disable them? I only got my 60 plate Yeti on Tues,and not really driven much in the dark,but after reading other posts on here,it seems like other drivers get confused with a fog light coming on.Is this really the case or are they really worth keeping enabled? Your opinions appreciated.

I like mine. People only get confused because they are a new thing. In ten years every car will have them and everyone will be used to them

I don't have them, so no direct experience. I also do not see how they can confuse oncoming drivers other than they could mistake them for turn signals. That would be on tha side you were turning anyway, so what's the problem?

I also do not really see any need for them, my Xenons do the job well, but some that have them have liked them.

I had them on the Range Rover, but not on any of the current vehicles.

It's not something I miss. Never saw the point personally.

You could try what I do; wire them up to flash alternately and continuously. You would be surprised at how fast people pull out of the way on motorways. Erm, only joking!

"Cornering fogs" just turn on the foglight on the side you're turning towards? If so, then they're pointless (insert usual human factors arguments about excess brightness in your near field).

"Steering reflectors" that actually change the horizontal beam azimuth to point a light round the corner are a different case entirely.

"Steering reflectors" that actually change the horizontal beam azimuth to point a light round the corner are a different case entirely.

Yes, I had headlights that swung left and right as you drove round bends. They really improved distance vision.

Jings, speedy responses in this section,never got service like this in the Octavia section. Yes my Yeti has the adaptive Xenons, so don't quite see the need for the cornering fogs,hence my question.Think I will see if some nice person with VCDS will disable them.

Jings, speedy responses in this section,never got service like this in the Octavia section. Yes my Yeti has the adaptive Xenons, so don't quite see the need for the cornering fogs,hence my question.Think I will see if some nice person with VCDS will disable them.

Will you be requiring my services?

Will you be requiring my services?

Yes please,just posted in the Diagnostics and VCDS section.

Yes please,just posted in the Diagnostics and VCDS section.

When would like it done?

I didn't have them on mine, since I don't have the HID lights, but had them enabled by a local member. I have NEVER had anyone confused by them, and do actually find them quite usefull. I suppose where you live affects that; around here we often don't have street lights.

I like them. The track up to my house has a series of hairpin bends and no lights, being able to see round corners has been very useful.

the fog light on the side that you are indicating you will turn will come on at speeds below 24mph when you put the indicator on.

Also, if your speed is below that level, they will light up as you take a corner.

They are intended to give extra illumination during slow negotiations of streets or tracks.

Personally I find them quite useful. Like another poster above I live rurally and some lanes have tight bends where you need to proceed slowly! The fact that they light up the verge just in front of the car does help. And there's no real need to disarm them - just let them do their job!

The cornering xenons are a completely different thing. Actually I find both to be of use - not all the time, but when needed!

Good luck with thinking it through. Some find these sorts of new things irritating.....I suppose its called "progress"!

This link may help you make your decision?

This link may help you make your decision?

If that clip is to show how much better corner lights are, why are the main headlights so much more powerful too?

Surely that doesn't make it look like an unbiased test. Look at 42 seconds before the cornering light comes on. :wonder:

Sorry, a bit pedantic today.

Clearly they have a place. If you need them.

My wife's car has them (along with the cornering headlights).

The 'cornering' for lights have caused several near-misses already with people thinking you are flashing them to pull out.

For example, you are driving along and start indicating to turn right onto a side road ahead. There is a car waiting to pull out of the side road across your path but you have right of way. As you put the indicators on and your speed drops (someone said on here 24mph) then your fog light on the side you are indicating comes on. The guy waiting to pull out thinks you have flashed him and sets off as you are a few feet away from him. Not nice at all and it's happened a few times already.

we took the car back to the dealer and they say the cornering foglights CAN NOT be turned off. It took them a ehile to find this out after phoning Skoda UK. The initially said you can switch off the corneing lights on the maxidot but this is the cornering xenon headlights NOT the cornering foglights.

Also, the foglights really do dazzle on coming cars and this is compared to the xenon headlights which do tend to dazzle other drivers too.

Why oh why can't these things be tunrned off. If some people like them and have no issues then fair enough, leave them on. Also, why cornering foglights when we already have cornering headlights??????

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I like them. They illuminate the near ground just when I want them to... Surprisingly useful and I'd say even more so than the cornering Xenons in town driving. If I was you I'd live with it for a bit and decide then. This is like getting your first car with ABS brakes and deciding you don't like it before even using it and then disabling something very useful...

But if you really have issues and/or live in an area with total planks driving the cars around you (that can't see the difference between the different lights) I suggest you just take the bulbs out. Job done. Then just get someone with a VCDS to stop the Maxidot telling you that you have a blown bulb.

I ride a motorcycle as well and can assure you that the idiots who assume it is safe to turn across your path are not interpreting your cornering fogs as a signal that it is safe to cut across you. They are just careless and unthinking half wits who are as likely to drive with a phone to their ear or while holding and involved face to face conversation with their equally bovine passengers.

Don't credit them with a half excuse or accept any responsibility for their awful driving.

I find the cornering fogs mildly useful turning in to unlit gateways or openings or in dimly lit parking garages. The cornering xenons are surprisingly good on cross country a and b roads.

Try them for a period. Drive on the basis that a proportion of your fellow road users are homicidal imbeciles-it is the only way to survive on a bike.

I like them. They illuminate the near ground just when I want them to... Surprisingly useful and I'd say even more so than the cornering Xenons in town driving. If I was you I'd live with it for a bit and decide then. This is like getting your first car with ABS brakes and deciding you don't like it before even using it and then disabling something very useful...

But if you really have issues and/or live in an area with total planks driving the cars around you (that can't see the difference between the different lights) I suggest you just take the bulbs out. Job done. Then just get someone with a VCDS to stop the Maxidot telling you that you have a blown bulb.

We haven't got our SM yet and already I can foresee these fogs becoming a problem around where we live.

I drive for a living (yes, a lorry) but I'm always conscious of what's around me and in my mirrors etc but some of the idiots around here in North Cornwall have no peripheral vision and I don't think it even registers (properly anyway) what their actually looking at.

I don't want it to, but, someone will pull out infront of me on these slow back roads at some point because of those lights.

Dom.

Thanks for all the replys,looks like the consensus is to keep them active. Thanks to Mike B for the offer to disable them,but I think I've been hasty in dismissing the advantages,and will try them out for a while. If I come across confused divers as some people have in previous posts on this subject I might get them disabled.

We haven't got our SM yet and already I can foresee these fogs becoming a problem around where we live.

I drive for a living (yes, a lorry) but I'm always conscious of what's around me and in my mirrors etc but some of the idiots around here in North Cornwall have no peripheral vision and I don't think it even registers (properly anyway) what their actually looking at.

I don't want it to, but, someone will pull out infront of me on these slow back roads at some point because of those lights.because they are incompetent and stupid.

Dom.

Dom,

these people don't need or deserve an excuse!

Dom,

these people don't need or deserve an excuse!

I know I know. I didn't say they were/are right though did I :p

I just know that it will be used as an excuse. Just like the old "Sorry mate I didn't see you". WELL OPEN YOUR F****** EYES THEN. IDIOTS.

I ride a motorcycle as well, and the amount of idiots that can't see me, even with my lights on is frankly quite scary.

Dom.

I have twin headlights (Street Triple) and an Arai in fluor yellow

-it isn't the lights it's the people who shouldn't be allowed on the roads.

I love them. I had no idea what going on until I saw the earlier video. Now I love them more. I live in the dark countryside where unlit pedestrians, boar and dear abound. I will keep them on. VAG have a massive R&D budget. They added them for a reason. Fine with me.