When I start my Spyder the low beams are like the default setting. To increase my visibility/presence I can turn on the high beams. But if I want to use the fog lights, I have to manually hold down the fog light switch. If I release pressure on the switch the fog lights go out. Is that the way they are designed to work? It is going to get pretty tiring if I have to continually hold down the switch in order for the lights to function......
Certainly here in Oz, but also from my experience over there in the US, I'm pretty sure that switch is
meant to be a 'toggle switch' - click on, fogs go on; click off, fogs go off - with no need to keep it held down
at any time in order to keep the fog lights on! But as others have mentioned above, you aren't meant to run both your fog lights and your Hi-beam lights at the same time, so switching from Lo-beam plus fogs will (should!) automatically turn the fog lights OFF! :lecturef_smilie:
So if you're having to hold down that switch
ALL THE TIME just to keep your fog lights on when you only have Lo-beam on, then I'd guess that there's something wrong with the switch, the fog light relay, &/or the wiring for your fogs, and whichever one of those it is needs replacing/fixing!! :shocked:
But if you are trying to run your fog lights
AND Hi-beam at the same time, see above - it's not
meant to happen, at least not on AU Spec Spyders!! :lecturef_smilie:
Here in Oz, getting sprung with both fogs & Hi-beam on at the same time may cost you a fair bit in fines, possibly even a Defect Notice that might mean you aren't legally allowed to drive the defected vehicle on the public roads until the 'fault' is rectified and you can no longer even
select Hi-beam with fogs
at all... :banghead:
Good Luck! :cheers:
Ps: Running both your Fog lights
AND your Hi-beam lights is a bit pointless for anything but the 'extra light' you may get in good (but dark!
) conditions, and of course if you run both at the same time, they can cause a lot of glare and potential loss of visibility for other/oncoming Road users too!!
Fog lights are
meant to be aimed low & under the fog, so that there's not too much light aimed up into the fog or light reflection off a wet road bounced up into the fog, where it hits all the suspended water, causing diffraction and a loss of visibility due to the glare/white-out that diffraction produces - just putting your Hi-beam lights only on in a real fog (not just a light mist) will cause a similar white-out effect.... and sometimes even your Lo-beam lights will do that too, making it almost impossible to see very far ahead &/or drive safely!! :sour: Hence the point of having fog lights in the first place - they are
meant to be mounted low on the vehicle
and aimed lower than your Lo-beam lights so that they provide light in close but
UNDER the layer of fog, so you can still see to drive, albeit slower than you would normally due to the shortened/lesser visibility - but at least you won't be blinded by the glare/white-out that shining bright light into fog will bring about! :thumbup:
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