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- From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Subject: Re: fog lamps
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:47:49 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- klui@corp.hp.com (Ken Lui) writes:
- >I think Honda made a mistake when they placed the Integra's fog
- >lamps right next to the headlamps and didn't make their lenses
- >amber. A lot of times when I see MkII Integras with their fogs
- >on, they look like driving lamps instead of foglights. They
- >don't appear to point down towards the ground either. In any
- >event, fog lights should be lower and Honda should have placed
- >them within the air scoop below the bumper. But, what do I know?
-
- Doesn't mounting them next to the regular headlights destroy the
- entire function of fog lamps? You'd get the same glare using clear
- lenses mounted at headlight level so I see no benefit whatsoever
- except possibly to marketing.
-
- jim frost
- jimf@centerline.com
-