What are people's thoughts on these?

Gimmick, handy or just annoying?

I ask as I was thinking of enabling them, but thought why? Just because seems a silly reason. I wish I could enable the fogs to come on with full beam though as they light the sides of the road so well. Maybe there is my reason, lol

Other people's thoughts would be great

Edited 27 December, 201213 yr by zeffania

I don't notice them. I like that both fogs come on when reversing, that is handy

I have enabled them on mine, then removed the grills surrounding the fogs and used the adjustment screws to align them facing outwards. Pointing to each corner (making them better as conering lights)

I honestly don't think I will ever genuinely need them as actual fog lights.

Just my opinion, but they work much better now at low speed cornering / manoeuvring.

Edited 27 December, 201213 yr by xpower

I have them on the Yeti and they are very helpful on dark lanes especially at night, as you can see into them before you turn in.

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I had them enabled on the last car. I wouldn't have said it makes that much difference but I'll probably do it on the new one too..

If it cost money then I'd probably not bother but given that it's just a tick on a screen with vcds then what's not to like?

As above, low speed maneuvering (sp?) in the dark it does help you see where you're turning in to. On the road though, i doesn't make much difference. Oh, and I could never see what the reason was to put both fogs on when you're driving backwards? :wonder: ,

Gimmick in my opinion. Don't like how they work so i haven't bothered enabling them on my new Blackline.

However do like the idea of the fogs coming on when reversing - even if it is a pointless idea.

Best enable on VCDS is the dimming of the DRL's when indicating (only when DRL's are on properly - not turned down in the side liight or dipped beam mode).

Do dealers generally do this mod FOC?

Best enable on VCDS is the dimming of the DRL's when indicating.

A bit pointless on the vRS as the indicators are too far away fom the DRL's to make a difference.

Opinions on the cornering foglights will vary depending on the speeds you drive at and the roads you drive on.

A good chunk of my commute is on unlit country roads with slow tight bends and high hedgelines and verges. In this environment cornering foglights have a real benefit.

Drive into a lit urban environment and you'll be hard pressed to notice them.

A good feature, not much point if you have xenons

I have xenon's and they are of benefit.

My Octavia is pre-facelift so does not have the cornering function within the headlights.

I have however driven a Yeti with xenons (incl. cornering function) with the cornering foglights and saw an improvement here too.

The light from the foglights is low down and much closer to the car, this is only really of use during slow speed manouvres hence the reason they only turn on at speeds below 40kmh (25mph).

This shows how effective the cornering foglights are.

Top picture with them activated, the bottom picture without. Spot the pedestrians...

Or better still watch the video (fast forward to 2:15)...

More pointless gimmicky twoddle imo, and will just be something else to fail the mot if not working in years to come.

Not written a car off in the dark whilst cornering so far, so damned if I'm suddenly going to start needing them now.

Really not a fan. Indicating standards are bad enough without another unnecessary distraction on other vehicles. Not as annoying as those that seem to think having foglights on permanantly is a good idea... We know they only do it because they think it looks "cool" and don't get me started on the sidelight/foglight combination brigade!!! If you judge it dark or dreary enough for foglights you should probably put your bloody headlights on!!! :wonder:

Soapbox now packed away...

can't see how you get benefit from cornering foglights if you have xenons with AFS

Thanks for the responses, as ever you get mixture which is what I was looking for

Right, will tick it and see how I get on. If I get flashed or notice no difference then I will untick. Got 600 miles to drive in the next few days so it will be a good test

Had the full AFS system with cornering fogs on my sold Superb, I really miss them in the Audi. I found them really handy on dark country roads with tight corners, as they light up the road close to the car unlike the headlights which by there very nature tend to light up the hedges beautifully on tight corners but not the road.

More pointless gimmicky twoddle imo, and will just be something else to fail the mot if not working in years to come.

Not written a car off in the dark whilst cornering so far, so damned if I'm suddenly going to start needing them now.

Couldn't agree more. Looks ridiculous too.

If you enable the fogs to act as cornering lights, do they still act as fog lights, If so and its Foggy do they keep going on and off on tight slow turns. Possibly a silly question but thought if the fogs don't work as fogs will that fail a MOT, or even being tested if they kept going on and off would it fail. ????

I would imagine they would act like fog lights and stay on

This shows how effective the cornering foglights are.

Top picture with them activated, the bottom picture without. Spot the pedestrians...

Or better still watch the video (fast forward to 2:15)...

In all honesty you can hardly see the cornering fogs in that picture or indeed the video. The benefit of the cornering function there (and the reason you can see the peds) comes from the headlight - hence the xenon tinge which wouldn't occur if it was the dogfight illuminating the road.

The peds are also well past the range at which the cornering fog would help......

the feature was switched on by my dealer. all the vws have it on by default.

In fact I've watched it again and can say that I can't detect any additional light from the highlight (looking for yellowness) from the forward facing shot from te cabin. However, if someone took a screenshot at 2.57 there is an aerial shot which clearly shows where the additional light is.

In my opinion they are a gimmick - one I very nearly had enabled recently but decided not to bother with as I think they look a bit daft. I think they might help slightly where you had a building, hedgerow, etc alongside which was reflecting the light upwards?

I'm even more confused about how both coming on in reverse would be handy though - surely that's even more gimmicky?

In my opinion they are a gimmick.

You are right, another 'gimmick' employed by the same manufacturer that introduced airbags and a whole host of other safety related innovation to their cars over the last two decades.

The same gimmick now being adopted by a number of other mainstream manufacturers (Skoda, VW, Audi, Seat, Fiat, Ford, Renault, Mercedes, Peugeot and many more).

I can't wait to post the YouTube video on GM's new LED adaptive lighting system, but I don't want to increase your blood pressure during what is already a tough time of year for the old ticker.

We had the same 'haters' when the rear fog light was made mandatory.

We had the same 'haters' when xenon and bi-xenon headlights were intoduced.

We had the same 'haters' when DRL's were introduced.

All gimmicks back then, but gimmicks that have, in time, been proved to increase safety on the roads.

Many of the 'cornering fog light' haters on here on another recent thread hadn't even tried them, they'd only witnessed them by seeing them on other cars.

I can only assume that as your not used to seeing them their novelty defaults to being a gimmick in your eyes.

They are legal, approved for use in Europe offer a noticable benefit and are here to stay.

Luckily it is possible to not add them as an option or deactivate them as required so as with most things in life, if you want them turn them on, of you don't turn them off.

If you enable the fogs to act as cornering lights, do they still act as fog lights, If so and its Foggy do they keep going on and off on tight slow turns.

Manually turning on the front fog lights disables the cornering foglight function.