Toyota Trucks: '03 Tundra Fog Lites....?

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:14:33 -0900, "Raksashan"
<org> wrote:
 

That is both normal and legal. My '90 Geo Storm was the same way.
Many vehicles are modified to operate differently, and most
aftermarket systems are not installed to operate "legally".

Fog and driving lights shall NEVER be used without your low-beams.
The low-beam headlight has a low-level cutoff and will not reflect
back. The fog beams offer a much more broad coverage in front of the
vehicle, but their actual use is more for BEING SEEN than in improving
what you can see.

I do like running mine because they provide a better view of the side
of the road when it is very dark.



--- Rich
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:14:33 -0900, "Raksashan"
<org> wrote:
 

Low beam headlights have an optical cutoff to keep the light down on
the road, rather than up where the fog would make it bounce back at
you, so they really don't cause a whole lot of glare.

Your Tundra is wired from the factory to meet most US states'
Vehicle Codes, which require them to be on with (not instead of) the
low beams.

Go read the legalese yourself:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24403.htm
And if you get the urge to add fog taillights, there's
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24602.htm

The idea is not to save you from any and all glare, but to stop
morons from driving around with only their parking and fog lights on
"because it really looks cool" - in real foggy conditions, it's too
easy for other oncoming traffic to not realize that the object without
the white headlights on is really a moving car (not just parked with
the parking lights on) and drive into their path.

And before you say it, I'm not sure how many states have these
rules, but I'm pretty sure it's widespread. It's easier for Toyota to
just follow the most restrictive, and sell the same car in all 50
States.

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Raksashan wrote:
 


No, they come on with headlamps in low beam, unless it was installed a
DIY'r.

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:38:25 GMT, MDT Tech® <com>
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Or a certain modified '03 Tundra



--- Rich
http://richlockyer.tripod.com/

All of the cars that I've owned need the headlights to be on for the
fogs to operate. It isn't a glich, that is just the way that they do
it.
It is mainly your high beems that reflect back atcha.

"Raksashan" <org> wrote in message news:<supernews.com>... 

I have a 2000 Quad V8 and it does what you are describing. Talk to Toyota
about I and they said this is by design and mandated by law for automobiles
with foglites to turn off when the high beam are on. Does not make any sense
but I am fine with it.


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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:01:38 GMT, "fastone" <com>
wrote:
 

Maximum allowable wattage displayed in the forward direction.

Same reason that offroad lights must be covered or pointed down when
on the highway.



--- Rich
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