Pontiac: No DRL's on 04 GP??

"Harry Face" <net> wrote in message
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maybe the fog lamps are the DRLs now? how obnoxious would that be...

everyone who has fog lamps drives around with them ON around here, even
though we almost NEVER get fog... real annoying.

"Paradox" <com> wrote in message
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They're hardly really fog lights, otherwise they'd be that yellow color.
These are usually described as "driving lights", meaning an extra set of
lower-placed headlights.

Yousuf Khan

In article <bu7tmu$er4ke$news.uni-berlin.de>,
com says... 

Even in fog they dont do jack squat...

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:05:11 -0600 (CST), net (Harry
Face) wrote:
 

"Yousuf Khan" <com> wrote in message
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Fog lights don't have to be yellow. But I'm pretty sure that most cars out
there have driving lights instead of fog lights and I was told that the best
way to find out was to look at the light casing for F designation for fog
light. I'm not positive but I think that real fog lights are supposed to
have the brightness of the brights and that at 4 feet away the beam is only
supposed to be either 1 or 3 feet off the ground.

"Harry Face" <net> wrote in message
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On my GP I can have the parking lights on and the fog (I'm pretty sure
they're fog lights..they're adjustable ) lights without the headlights
being on. Come to think of it, I was playing in an 04 Sierra and I could
turn on the driving lights (we tried those out in the fog near the WI/MI
border when it was really foggy out and they worked a little bit but nothing
spectacular) with just the parking lights on.

Easy distinction:

'Fog lights' are found on pickup trucks, wreckers, and station wagons
owned by paranoid engineers.

'Driving lights' are found on imported 'performance' cars. Their purpose
is to alert deaf drivers of the presence of a high-performance machine.
Since deaf drivers cannot hear the 'high tech' farting sound of a
'performance import,' they must be alerted by being blinded. The
preferred conditions to employ 'driving lights' are on perfectly clear
days while weaving in and out of traffic. Or, as one 'import enthusiast'
informed me when I asked him about their purpose, they're for "blinding
queers like [me]."

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net (Harry Face) wrote in message news:<bay.webtv.net>...
 

The DRL lamps are the upper half of the fog lights assembly. Half of
the lens is yellow for the DRL and half of it is transparent for the
fog light. Thus, if you say them yellow, it was the DRL, if white,
the fog lights.

But I read somewhere that the driver can disable DRL in the new GP
through the cruise computer, I think.