The LED SAE J583 Fog Pod & Fog Light Review

I've heard nothing but good things about them. Happy snow hunting!

 

Love them, always had them on my Auto 15'

 

Yea, that's going to stop me from putting a set of them in a driving beam optic behind my grill. Not!

 

My money (and my 4Runner) is going with these:

 

Look beefy

 

Actually, they're only 245's. (Skinny is better than fat on hard pack and ice.) If you've never driven in the snow with Blizzaks, you have no idea what you're missing.

 

I wonder why the blizzarks are triangles while the hakka's are swooshy. Hmm.

 

Mine are little skinnies as well 255/75/17

 

Meanwhile, back at the fog light thread ...

 

Yes waiting the new Fogs to drop

 

The SS5 Max selective Yellow. When absolutely everyone on the interstate must see. Accept no substitutes.

 

SS5 doesn't make sense for fogs, but it does to produce some extraordinary driving lights. I cannot wait to try these out.

 

Naw, yall need some Hakkapeliitta LT3...



LEFT: 285/70/r17 Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs (summers)
RIGHT: 285/75/r16 Nokian Hakkapeliitta LT3 studded (winters)

 

Are there additional lights planned for release next week?

 

The SS5 looks awesome and very tempting, but i sure wish they would come out with an updated light bar with 4000k/selective yellow options. I would be all over that.

 

I just picked up my first Tacoma (first truck actually) about a month ago and immediately took it on a camping trip in WV and ran into a very very thick fog at night situation. I had to creep up the hill with just the fog lights on. I decided fog lights would be my first upgrade.

Thread is awesome. I've been picking through it for a few hours now and it's overwhelming but mostly making sense but I have what may be kind of a strange question. When I see comparisons of fog upgrades vs OEM the OEM light doesn't go very far past the front of the truck while the aftermarket light up a lot further forward. Understanding yellow is better for fog than a straight white light, is yellow better than the halogen? Would greater output/further light in yellow have been useable/better visibility in my situtation?

I'm really liking the KC G4 in amber but I'm wondering if they will have enough light output.

 

I had the G4’s in amber, no regrets going with the SS3’s.

 

I have the G4 in amber but I admit wish they were a bit brighter. I definitely do like the amber color more than selective yellow but performance wise you're better off with SS3s.

 

Yellow just removes the shorter wavelengths that are least useful for seeing things and most likely to scatter (not really scatter, but thats a simplistic explanation). Yellow light can be significantly better than white light, especially blue wavelength heavy white light (high color temp LEDs, HIDs, blue filtered halogen) in heavy fog, but its not a guarantee of improved ability to see.

Fogs aren't really intended to see "further," they're primarily intended for exactly your conditions there: extremely limited visibility and slow, careful navigation. They're not a flood beam, they're meant to be a very wide, very short beam with tight control over light above their horizontal cutoff, which would just reflect back at the driver, decreasing vision.

The KC G4s in amber are, in fact amber. So they will not make natural colors as easy to distinguish as yellow light or white light. But they will also refract less in super heavy fog like that. Amber is not a legal color for fog lights, while yellow is, so if you feel you may use these on the road, a yellow lamp would be the better choice.

 

Yeah this may have been why I was kind of confused, because a lot of the videos I see of these after market fogs the light output is very far. Is halogen considered a white, or in other words does halogen have more shorter wave lengths than yellow?