Fog Lights On or Off?

This is my understanding of fog vs. driving lights:
Tacomas have clear fog lights. Fog lights can be clear or yellow.
Fog lights are mounted low, are aimed low and slightly outside and have a wide beam. The idea is that it adds light down low / close to show the road right in front of your vehicle, and light up the shoulders a bit in fog or snow showers. The reason they are mounted / aimed low is so they don't blind you by reflecting light off fog / snow right back to your eyes. Ever turn your brights on in a bizzard? Makes it even harder to see.

Driving lights are aimed high, have a narrow beam, and are mounted high. They light up things far down the road. They can be much brighter than fogs, or even your brights (if you are driving Pro Rally or off-road racing.)

I thought the purpose of a driving light is to extend your lighting very far in front of you for high speed driving. If I'm driving 80 mph on a dirt road, I need to see what's going on hundreds of feet in front of the vehicle - at that speed I don't really care what's going on right in front of the bumper.

What you describe, imho, is not a driving light or a fog light - I'm not sure what it's called - "off-roading lights"?

I think of fogs as "super low beams" and driving lights as "super high beams".

 

i found a way to rig my fogs as dtrls and illumitate the switch when the are on. they are still fully controllable at night. i am for fogs anytime. i am a logger and don't feel like smoking a deer at 80km/h in the bush because i couldn't see well enough to miss it.

 

in the city leave them off.in the country run them i dont care just like high beams turn the shit off when you come up behind some one or approach. my 2 effin cents

 

i have an o9 and like the stance the dtrl give it , but i have em on when the headlights are on...it makes a big difference about 10 feet infront of you

 

i never leave mine on in the city or on the highway for that matter unless it is foggy or raining real hard or snowing. but not in the city. no need. i hate it when peeps leave em on

 

Hmm first ever post in this forum aside frm my intro!!! but i vote on with fog lights as i think it completes the look of the truck esp. at night ---besides ---where i live i would never hve the opportunity to ever use the fog light!!!

 

well hockeychick check out the fog light mod and the post i made about the fog switch you can set it up to not only use fogs whenever you want, you can make it so that they are your daytime running lights all info is in the cheap easy mod thread

 

which would be here: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/technical-chat/4838-cheap-free-mods.html

 

I have them on always at night because of damn deer

 

not true

 

thank u guys for the info ---!!

 

You are welcome!

 

I wanna change my vote to ON ALL THE DAMN TIME PLAYER. Cuz I want other tacos around town to ask "hey "how do you get those light to stay on?" Then I say "here give me 50 bucks and I'll rewire you flux capacitor so it can do that."

 

use it when offroad or sneaking around.

 

on

 

I use that switch do-hickey thing, turn them on when I want , then turn them off! KISS principle ! Sean

 

I wish my fog switch would work just by the button not just when your on low beam!

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/4838-cheap-free-mods.html#post45430

 

I got mine on all the time

 

On to illuminate the ground immediately in front of me.