Fog light problem solved

[blacksheep06]

There's been a lot of posts here about GT owners getting flashed constantly when fogs are on, I was one of them. I installed some GTS smoked fog light covers over a month ago and haven't been flashed a single time(fog light covers only). Previously I was getting flashed by every other car almost literally.

Problem solved.

 

[xxrequiemxx]

I always drive with my fog's on... I never get flashed. However, I have the GTS light covers on my regular headlights so maybe that is why?

If I didnt have my fog lights on - my smoked out lights would do nothing!

 

[PoopDawg]

I've never been flashed. Ever. And I have no covers on anything.

 

[ARTTII]

11k miles, always drive with them on at night, never once been flashed either

 

[bigcat]

so why not just turn off the fogs if they were such a problem? the blackouts remove any help that they provide while turned on with the headlights. save yourself $40 too.

i noticed that it seems as if people flash you, but it is really the headlights bouncing up and down while driving on crappy roads. it only appears that they are flashing you.

 

[Humboldt Stang]

No, definitely getting flashed.
Happens now and then.
Can go awhile without it happening, then I'll see it a couple of times in a few days.
I always use my fogs, for the extra peripheral lighting they provide.
If I get flashed, I flash right back, and they get the point.
And before someone chimes in with their opinion that I don't need the extra lighting, I'll ask:
Have any of you hit a bear?
Or almost hit a seal?
And almost hit many, many deer?
Well, I have.
So, fog lights for me please.

 

[xxrequiemxx]

a seal????

 

[blacksheep06]

so why not just turn off the fogs if they were such a problem? the blackouts remove any help that they provide while turned on with the headlights. save yourself $40 too.

i noticed that it seems as if people flash you, but it is really the headlights bouncing up and down while driving on crappy roads. it only appears that they are flashing you.

I kept them turned off for about 2 months the problem was so bad. The blackouts don't completely kill the fog lights they just dim them. I like the way the car looks with the fog lights on and I also like the way the covers look in the daylight. Well worth $40 to me.

Yes I notice the bouncing too but there is a big difference between lights bouncing around and someboby completely blinding you with their high beams.

I have met a few s197 Gt's at night with their fog lights on and I can honestly see how people can mistake them for high beams. They seem brighter than the average car with fog lights on. Just my .02

 

[Humboldt Stang]

a seal????

Yep.
Imagine my surprise.
It has swam up the Arcata marsh, far inland, and climbed out onto highway 101.
Weather was nasty, rainy, poor visibility, so I saw this dark mass at the last minute and swerved into the fast lane, just missing it.
I can only imagine the oily mess that would've made on the highway.

I hit the bear in my Jeep Cherokee.
Following a couple of other vehicles on a rainy night, so couldn't use the high beams.
Only doing about 30 when BAM!, bear right on my grill.
Killed the bear, and my Jeep was never the same after that even after repairs.
It kept going through water pumps.

So, you can never talk me out of foglights.

 

[bigcat]

i had the blackouts on my headlights when i first got my car. the fogs were not yet available. i could hardly tell the difference between fogs only and having all 4 lights on with the 2 blacked out. i drive mostly in the city, so that may help. sounds like you are out of the city more frequently than me. im not arguing with you, just providing my input.

i have gone on many 1100 mile trips in my car, driving mostly at night. i always use both fogs and headlights. i am on I-80 the whole way, and never get flashed. maybe your lights are slightly brighter than mine. there are so many variables in this equation.

im glad that this simple mod has satisfied your needs. sometimes the simple things work the best. good luck!

 

[shooterm1]

I went to amber bulbs ...... same lux values - but much more useful for night driving.

 

[blacksheep06]

i had the blackouts on my headlights when i first got my car. the fogs were not yet available. i could hardly tell the difference between fogs only and having all 4 lights on with the 2 blacked out. i drive mostly in the city, so that may help. sounds like you are out of the city more frequently than me. im not arguing with you, just providing my input.

i have gone on many 1100 mile trips in my car, driving mostly at night. i always use both fogs and headlights. i am on I-80 the whole way, and never get flashed. maybe your lights are slightly brighter than mine. there are so many variables in this equation.

im glad that this simple mod has satisfied your needs. sometimes the simple things work the best. good luck!

Agreed, where your are driving is the big deal. I've never been flashed on the interstate or in town but the dark country roads are a different story. I live in a small hick town and do most of my driving in the country.

I have 13,000 miles on my car and I would bet money that I've been flashed 25+ times, no BS. Probably just the local hicks who aren't use to a vehicle with all the bulbs still working.

 

[homebrewer]

I've only been flashed once, despite using all four lights at all times. Even when I flash my high beams, he still continued to flash me back (we were at a light). I guess he was just an A-hole.

In any case, it could be just rough roads that make cars flash you. I can't tell you how many times I have thought that others cars with HID lighting (especially BMW's) have made me thought a cop were putting on their lights. With the outrageously crappy roads that we have in Richmond, some xenon or HID lights can look much brighter than usual when given at a different angle. While I understand the benefits of HID lighting, I wish that the auto companies would figure out a way to make them stop "flashing" from white to blue in a rear view mirror.....

That being said, glad to hear that you found a fix. I was worried about it for a while as well when I first bought mine....

 

[ruffy]

I use my fogs as driving lights in the daytime. At night I run with normal lighting unless of course there is fog.

 

[99GTtony]

I only get flashed on fridays........
I don't think I have ever been flashed while running my fogs, but then again, I always run my lowers anyways. I put the smoked overlays on my uppers from autobadges today....look pretty sinister.

 

[SlideWRX]

I have 13,000 miles on my car and I would bet money that I've been flashed 25+ times, no BS. Probably just the local hicks who aren't use to a vehicle with all the bulbs still working.

Wow, I'm at 12k and can't think of one time. Is there an adjuster to the stock fog lights? Or maybe the regular headlights are aimed too high? Hmm... I put silverstars in my regular lights, so maybe there's enough contrast that the fogs are more obviously fogs.

Tom

 

[ex-camaroguy]

I've only been flashed once, despite using all four lights at all times. Even when I flash my high beams, he still continued to flash me back (we were at a light). I guess he was just an A-hole.

thats when i'd turn my highs on.

 

[APowers]

No seals or moose, but deer.

No, definitely getting flashed.
Happens now and then.
Can go awhile without it happening, then I'll see it a couple of times in a few days.
I always use my fogs, for the extra peripheral lighting they provide.
If I get flashed, I flash right back, and they get the point.
And before someone chimes in with their opinion that I don't need the extra lighting, I'll ask:
Have any of you hit a bear?
Or almost hit a seal?
And almost hit many, many deer?
Well, I have.
So, fog lights for me please.

This is the whole reason that I want my fog lights independent of my headlights. I want them to stay on no matter what my headlights are doing.