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Subject:Re: Headlight upgrades
From:Dennis Haynes
Date:Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:57:19 -0500

Sorry, that was supposed to "fog" lights. 

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Haynes
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 9:56 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Headlight upgrades

Fag lights are usually wired so they only work with the low beams. Using both defeats the purpose of the high beams a bit. As your eyes adjust to the closer light the further light is not as useful. It's like when the dash lights are super bright and your eyes adjust to that. Driving at low speeds do you really benefit from seeing that far down the road anyway. Especially if there is traffic in front of you. 

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Mark McCulley
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 1:21 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Headlight upgrades

Clear fog lights are a good supplement to both low and high beams. Where I live there are no street lights or ambient city light so I use my brights whenever possible and usually have the fogs (Hella 500s) on too. We're talking 2 lane roads, 35-50mph speed limit and frequent deer, bicyclists, and pedestrians when I'm driving to/from work. Bicyclists and pedestrians usually have strobe lights but the deer never do.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:03 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:

>                 Mark~Jim~Dan
>
>         Are YouGuys talkin Hi's or Lows or ~~
>
>
> On 21 Jan , 2016, at 5:40 PM, Dan N wrote:
>
> > I agree with this.
> >
> > per my observation.. the pattern of my '85 (round) is good on the 
> > road
> but
> > not so much on shoulders... on  my '88 (square) not so much on the 
> > road
> but
> > good on shoulders... I tried to adjust as much as I can but never 
> > get
> both..
>