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- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!shantanu
- From: shantanu@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Shantanu Ganguly)
- Subject: Re: fog lamps
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.150155.7764@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
- References: <1993Jan21.085305.14965@leland.Stanford.EDU> <bob1.727649688@cos>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:01:55 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <bob1.727649688@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
- >In <1993Jan21.085305.14965@leland.Stanford.EDU> tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
- >
- >
- >>i have a '90 acura integra which has fog lamps.
- >>the fog lamps have clear lenses and are mounted
- >>next to the headlamps. this past weekend, up
- >>in the reno area, i was driving with my fog lamps on
- >>(the better to see the surface of the road and through
- >>the snow). a lot of oncoming drivers thought i had
- >>my brights on and flashed me, to which i replied by flashing
- >>my own brights.
- >
- >>i know that my fog lamps don't produce much additional glare
-
- I've stopped using my integra's driving lights (that's what the manual
- calls them) unless I'm the only one on the road. These lights actually
- don't cause much glare, they just provide additional fill to the low
- beams (which are quite inadequate if there is no street lighting).
- Problem is, any oncoming driver who sees 4 headlights in a row
- will think that you are using high beams, and flash you.
- Honda should have positioned the driving lights differently.
-
- >Have you sat in the seat of a car, facing your integra with the
- >lamps on? I've seen similar integras here, and I wonder about
- >what you mean by *much additional glare*. The integra is after
- >all merely an updscale Honda, and as I've said before, Honda
- >can't design headlights worth sh*t.
-
- Well, I've found my civic's headlights are fairly functional (I won't claim
- to be a headlight expert) - its the integra low beams that suck.
- There was some talk about this on the shortlived acura mailing list,
- the trick is to replace the integra low beams with some exotic
- hellas with a good cutoff pattern. I'll see if I can dig up
- that info.
-
- Shantanu Ganguly
- Somerset (Motorola)
-
- phone : (512) 795-7146 Motorola Inc, Mail Drop OE 513
- fax : (512) 795-7513 6501 William Cannon Drive W.
- Austin TX 78735-8598
- email : shantanu%ibmoto.com@oakhill.sps.mot.com
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