Foglights

[Raddman]

Originally Posted by Flashmn

Makes it worse actually, because all the light is concentrated at a wide are very close to your bumper, night time that light will prevent you from seeing things clearly at a distance. Basic lighting stuff, you dont see rally cars driving around with foglights in night time races, they have big ass drivinglights.

"makes it worse actually" Just would like to know where you get all of your miss-information from? actually its just your opinion isn't it? "night time that light will prevent you from seeing things clearly at a distance" thats what your headlights are for I don't know about other cars but my 03 rolla S fog lights illuminate out at least thirty feet and light up the road that my headlights don't. they both compliment each other and fill the voids that head lights miss I believe any more lights is better light...JMHO ....Raddman

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Originally Posted by Raddman

"makes it worse actually" Just would like to know where you get all of your miss-information from? actually its just your opinion isn't it? "night time that light will prevent you from seeing things clearly at a distance" thats what your headlights are for I don't know about other cars but my 03 rolla S fog lights illuminate out at least thirty feet and light up the road that my headlights don't. they both compliment each other and fill the voids that head lights miss I believe any more lights is better light...JMHO ....Raddman

I don't want to take issue with the use of foglight. But it seems necessary to distinguish between fog light and driving light first. To the best of my knowledge, foglight should create a wider, not longer, beam pattern, and is not intended to illuminate farther than the headlight.

If our purpose is to have a light shooting farther than the headlights are capable of doing, we're talking about "driving light," not foglight. If the weather is foggy, such light may not be of much heap. The mist will block (or even reflect back) the light aimed far away. In this situation we need a foglight, which helps illuminate the nearby lines, reflectors and roadsigns. The lower color tempeature is more appropriate for the foglight.

I agree on the suggestion that, theoreticaly, too strong light near the bumper causes higher contrast between the light nearby and the outer light, thus making illumination at a farther point "looks" worse (the actual lumens remain unchanged). But in practice, if the original headlamps are lousy (like the terrible 9004 on my corolla), even foglight is a great deal helpful. The 9004 headlamps cannot even take a good care of the nearby area, which the headlamps are supposed to be responsible for.

Hella uses the same lamps to meet the function of either foglight or drivinglight. Please take a look at http://www.rallylights.com/hella/ff075.asp , and we can know how different they are.

[Flashmn]

"makes it worse actually" Just would like to know where you get all of your miss-information from? actually its just your opinion isn't it?

its actually science.

[Raddman]

Originally Posted by Flashmn

its actually science.

Science?....Ok .....Raddman

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Originally Posted by slammineon95

what is easiest to do on a 94, hook up a new switch, or hook it up to the parking lights? if i were to hook them up to the parking lights, where would the easiest place be to splice into the wires. please show pics if you have them.

Hi slammineon95,

I know, this an old thread but wanted to know if you setup your fog lights yet? I have 96 corolla and was wondering if any drilling was involved in attaching fog lights to bumper. Are there existing holes where fog lights can attach into a 96 corolla?

Would anyone else know?

Thanks,

Geoff

[BLUEMEANIE]

logeoff -
I have the yellow "lexus style" fogs on my 95 ... they're aimed correctly and excelent in bad weather or on back roads but I definately only use them when I need them.


As for mounting them to a 93-97, I like them set deep so they look somewhat stock so I cut the horizontal support at both outter sides of the lower grill and mounted them to the metal impact bar behind the bumper. You can get a kit with a switch and relay from AutoZone for $10usd (I made my own) and tapped the switched power into the headlight fuse under the hood with a secondary switch on the dash. You can also tap the parking light fuse so you can have your fogs on without your headlights ala 90's gansta style.

I'll post some pics tonight.

Originally Posted by Raddman

Science?....Ok .....Raddman

I think what Flashmn is referring to is aftermarket fogs, the kind that say on the back "intended fro off road use only". On coming drivers shouldnt have a problem with correctly aimed OEM foglights.

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Originally Posted by BLUEMEANIE

As for mounting them to a 93-97, I like them set deep so they look somewhat stock so I cut the horizontal support at both outter sides of the lower grill and mounted them to the metal impact bar behind the bumper. You can get a kit with a switch and relay from AutoZone for $10usd (I made my own) and tapped the switched power into the headlight fuse under the hood with a secondary switch on the dash. You can also tap the parking light fuse so you can have your fogs on without your headlights ala 90's gansta style.

Thanks Bluemeanie