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Many people are currently using sidelights, dipped beams and front fog lights all on together. I rarely see anyone with front fog lights on, but dipped beams off. Today's dull weather has been a good example on the A23 in Brighton. I would guess that many cars need their sidelights on to enable their front fogs to work, but not dipped beams as well.
Asked on 24 January 2009 by
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Honest John
That's right. That's how my Focus and most modern European cars work. For the very sensible reason it allows you to use fogs for what they are originally designed for: to light the road immediately in front of the car hopefully underneath the fog without reflected dazzle from using headlights against fog. It's also very handy for using the fogs as DRLs because first pull puts the fronts on. Pulling the switch a bit further puts the rears on. So you are left with the option of switching the dipped heads on, or not.
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