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Oh the driving / fog light debate goes on and on. Plain and simple - motorists find people driving with low mounted lights annoying for the following reasons : 1. The lights are not needed unless in fog or wet weather 2. They are distracting when behind your vehicle shining in your rear vision mirrors 3. They are very distracting as on comin traffic because often idiots put a lot higher wattage globes in and the vehicle/headlights aren't adjusted properly so the lights shine up in their eyes 4. Other motorists do the right thing and obey the rules and regulations and by having these "wank" lights on when not neccassary shows a blatant disregard to the law and rules. These drivers should be fined and have demerit points taken also to show they must obey the rules like everybody else. For the drivers who drive around with them on - I, lke many others, would pose this question - if you didn;t have the low mounted lights fitted to your car, would you drive around with your "normal" headlights on ? The anser - No ........ because they don't look as cool as your bumper mounted wank lights. Please don't take offense to this - it's not aimed just at XR6 & XR8 drivers - it's for everybody that drives with these lights on. I know a guy who is SO SO irritated by them that he carries a small pile of pebbles in his vehicle and when he sees on coming vehicles with these lights on, he doesn;t flash or dip his headlights or anything, he simply winds down his window and throws a couple of rocks out the window bouncing them off the front of the on coming car. I know and he knows that it's dangerous but he says it's no more dangerous than the oncoming blinding illegal lights. He says this will teach these wankers one way or another to turn off their lights. Anyway guys, be aware and be safe Cheers GD

Thank you all for replying to my post. Info for Turbo6Man.......the European cars are manufactured to comply with our ADR (Australian Design Rules). The ADR is for lights where mounted lower then the main headlight units, they are to be used (not saying you can't switch them on with your main headlights, that's a different issue of the driver not complying with current state laws) seperately to your main headlights. You are not under Australian law allowed to use both headlights and fog/driving lights at the same time. I have a fellow employee who has an Audi A6, a very recent model, and I know for a fact that on the headlight switch, you can turn it halfway for just fog/driving lights, 3/4 turn for just the "normal" headlights and all the way around for both headlight and fog/driving lights at once. Like I said and will say again for those who don't quite understand it, whilst the car may allow you to use both your headlights and your bumper mounted fog/driving lights together at once, it is not legal even when it's in adverse weather.....period ! They also produce cars that meet all the ADR's and are capable of 340 kilometres per hour but if you do that speed and get caught, you'll be issued a fine........exactly the same thing. You can't buy an F430 Ferrari (simply the best car in the world ever to be touched by humans hands) and drive it then at maximum speed without some kind of consequence. You can drive a car with your feet if you want to but that doesn;t make it a great idea. Just because the car will do it, doesn't mean it should be done. The reason for my knowledge of this act of infringement ? Let's just say I wasn't always a photography....I have had other jobs Cheers all and remember, just because you think it may make your car look really cool, it can be seen as a total wank by some and the police may very well choose to fine you.......

Ok, coming from somebody who knows the law inside out, any light ( excluding parker or indicator) that is mounted lower ( be it at the factory or aftermarket ) then the main vehicle headlight(s) is to be used only used in adverse weather conditions like snow, sleet, fog, rain etc. These lower mounted lights were always and still are called fog lights, not driving lights as the new naming would suggest. It's only since the introduction of a lot of the European cars like Volvo, Mercedes, VW etc and their terminology sneaking in from overseas were it's trendy to call these lights "driving lights", that we here in Oz have also started referring to these lights as driving lights, even our manufacturers like Expensive Daewoo and Ford do so but it does not change the fact that these lights are fog lights ONLY Under current Australian regulation (especially NSW) the 2 rules with these lower mounted lights are : a) Lower mounted lights by law MUST NOT be used in normal weather ie : weather that is not adverse conditions. So clear days or nights where there is no rain fog snow etc b) These lights also MUST NOT be switched on/used at the same time as you have your main headlights on and this is irrespective of the weather. ie : even if it is raining, snowing and hailing all at once then you are still only permitted to use either your main headlights OR your lower mounted fog lights at one time. You are NOT to have both your headlights and fog lights on at the same time. Part of this restriction is due to the minority of idiot/wackers who remove their standard 55 watt globes (by law the lower mounted fog lights MUST NOT be any higher than 55 watts) and put in some "titanium core powder blue coated double vision night and brick wall penetrating" 300 watt globe they bought at Supacheap on the last fathers day weekend sale which then bounce off the road at the wrong angle burning holes in the retinas of oncoming drivers. So every time you see a Toyota Prado ( they seem to be the worst offenders ), an SS Commodore, a Ford Fiesta, Toyota Rav4, Honda CRV or a Mack truck coming toward you with both headlights and lower mounted for lights on at the same time, they are open and liable to receiving demerit points and a fine. Whether it's raining or not ! They must have one or the other on and if it is the lower mounted lights, then it better be adverse weather or they are going to cop a fine. I hope this clears it up for you guys. Peace Grant P.S I heard of a driver through the grapevine of a friend of a friend (don't know if an urban myth or not) who actually had somebody throw a piece of pebble at their vehicle as they went passed and it apparently turned out that the person who throw it said he was sick of seeing "wankers"with driving lights on when not needed so he was taking a stand against it.....as I said, don't know how true but I would be a little pi#@ed off if he had hit my car !