You can use your fog lights legally.In fact it's still foggy here.

So how many of you pressed the least used button on your car and turned it into a pretend World Rally Car:D

(I did but you can't tell on the Octavia:( )

i think in 8 years or more of driving ive used my fog lights about twice :(

enjoy it while you can

Well done. Me too. I'm sick to death of these muppets who have them on in all weathers

I saw someone this morning driving along in a dull grey cavalier at 60mph in THICK fog with no lights what so ever. Dozey plonker

Time to dig out the bonnet pod:D

Well we've got to drive to slough yet...only 3 hours on a clear day...nice knowing you all.

driving over here in dublin it just seems to be the norm to drive with your fog lights on all the time....very annoying and also very illegal......but then again nobody seems to care!!!!.....i had a dust up with a driver just the other day,was pulling up to a junction to turn left at the lights when a guy came round the corner on the filter with huge fogs on and complety blinded me.The whole road disapeared and i had to brake.Sounded the horn and pointed furisouly at him.I thought that was it but he thought otherwise and stopped his car and came over to mine screaming at me!!! i had to explain that fog lights are not designed to work in good driving conditions and is infact illegal to have them on when no fog is about....lets just say all i heard was F"*K over and over again!!!!....But thats just normal irish driving for you!!!

You might be interested to know that you can go and sit your test here,fail it and still be allowed to drive home unacompanied!!!!...explain that one to me!!!

You can use your fog lights legally.In fact it's still foggy here.

So how many of you pressed the least used button on your car and turned it into a pretend World Rally Car:D

(I did but you can't tell on the Octavia:( )

You can on mine :P

I used mine last night, but was suprised by the amount of people who had them but did not put them on.

also is it only me that finds the main lights useless in fog?

Drove home 300 miles last night in the thickest fog I've seen for some time.... never turned on the fogs as it was DARK!

Number of people blinding me was astounding....

I always liked the author Bill Bryson's description of rear fog lights. "Switched on all year round, apart from a short celebratory period around summer solstice"!

Phil

Foglights

also is it only me that finds the main lights useless in fog?

But surely that's the whole point of fog lights. Any light will be reflected back to you by the fog. The higher/more powerful the light, the more dazzled you'll be. So you use dipped lights that are less powerfull and point down, or fog lights that point down even more or are mounted lower.

The aim of mounting them lower is to make the "cut" under the fog.

i used the rear fog light for the first time last night as the fog round walsall was pretty dense. the only thing i dont like about the octy vRS and i'm sure every other model is that you cant have the rear fog on without the front as well.

no one seemed to mind me using the fronts though and on the darker lanes we used you could tell they were on. they gave a much wider spread of light about 6-10 feet infront of the car pretty much at bumper level...

to be honest i dont like using the rear one unless i REALLY have to cause i hate having to follow someone thats using them unless its totally nessasary.

also is it only me that finds the main lights useless in fog?

At the risk of stating the obvious - that's why you have foglights!!!

Especially on older cars where headlights were high up, it was soon found that headlights are useless in fog because even on dipped beam they just reflect off the fog and cause glare, hence the practice of having separate foglights, usually situated low down on the car bumper, to illuminate the road from close to and provide at least some visibility, especially towards the edges of the road. Often they used to be yellow, which doesn't glare as badly, but nowadays fashion overrides usefulness, so we have blinding white ones so that t*ss3rs in (insert hated vehicle brand here) can drive around with them on all the time to "impress" us

20 mph on the backroads last night, normally a bit of a fun stretch but as it was below zero AND you couldnt see a darn thing, that was about as fast as I felt safe with.

Due to total lack of reflective lines/cat eyes etc it sure was an interesting trip.

Xenons appeared to cut through the fog relatively well but as they were adjusted badly on the last service (and I've not had time to sort it myself/get the dealer to sort it) I really needed the fogs.

I want my rear fog light wired independently from the front ones, just for those muppets who drive with front fogs in clear visibility, so I don't blind the guy in front of me.

I used my auxillary lights (fogs are mounted low, so the octy ones are technically auxillary ones) for the first time last night, pretty good with the 100w bulbs

As for the fog round Walsall last night, yep, twas pretty thick, especially at the M5/6 junction and down the M5 towards my fav motorway bends.

Oh and thanks to the guy in the Alfa this morning who had his rear fogs on, nice and clear it was too He took the hint though, for some reason xenons, 130w main beam and 100w fogs "encouraged" him to turn off the rear fog

over in the uk you only have this problem when there is a wee bit of fog!!!.....its a problem everyday over here!!! most cars irespective of wether its a sporty car or an old banger drives with just its side lights on and its fogs.....most cars over here are set so that when you put your dips on then the fogs come on automaticaly!!! You see old grannies in wee micras driving around with them on,toayaly ablivious to the problem they are causing!!!

Blimey, I think I must be the only one who doesn't really give a t*ss if people have their fogs on in clear weather!! I dont seem to get blinded by them either?? they are mounted low (usually) and are designed to light up the road immediately infront of the vehicle so I dont understand why everyone is getting blinded by them? unless your talking about the boy racer type idiots who have fitted extra non standard lights to the front of their cars and usually not adjusted properly?

I dont use my fogs unless its either foggy or i've got a headlight bulb out, as in the superb they are contained in the main headlight cluster so it definately wouldn't look 'cool' anyway as no-one would know they were on!!