Jeff7
Lifer
I couldn't find a whole lot here in terms of foglight discussions here, so here's one. 🙂
I've got a 2012 Subaru Impreza en route to a dealership, and I'm pondering adding the foglights to it. The picture there nicely shows where they're mounted.
They want $460 total for the parts + installation. ($300 + 1.5hrs labor)
Ok, looks like they're available for $250 as a kit, that I'd install myself.
The main question is, do they do anything? That said, there's not a whole lot out here in the way of fog, at least not that comes to mind, but on some winter nights there is heavy wind-blown snow that's like driving through a pallet of inkjet paper.
Besides that, are they worth that price?
The threads I found elsewhere were all over the place in terms of answering the main question of their inherent value, regardless of price, but some of it seems to be muddled by people who buy aftermarket foglights and don't point them properly, so 1) They don't point where they're supposed to so that may reduce their effectiveness, and 2) Perhaps because they aren't pointed right, they blind other drivers, which earns the ire of some drivers. It sounds like properly made and pointed foglights should have a low and flat beam that would not become excessively intrusive to another driver's vision.
Going through the user manual for the Impreza, it looks like the foglights will only come on if the regular headlights are also turned on. From what I read, some jurisdictions do not permit independent operation of foglights anyway.
(And feel free to check out my other updated thread, link also in sig. 🙂)
I've got a 2012 Subaru Impreza en route to a dealership, and I'm pondering adding the foglights to it. The picture there nicely shows where they're mounted.
Ok, looks like they're available for $250 as a kit, that I'd install myself.
The main question is, do they do anything? That said, there's not a whole lot out here in the way of fog, at least not that comes to mind, but on some winter nights there is heavy wind-blown snow that's like driving through a pallet of inkjet paper.
Besides that, are they worth that price?
The threads I found elsewhere were all over the place in terms of answering the main question of their inherent value, regardless of price, but some of it seems to be muddled by people who buy aftermarket foglights and don't point them properly, so 1) They don't point where they're supposed to so that may reduce their effectiveness, and 2) Perhaps because they aren't pointed right, they blind other drivers, which earns the ire of some drivers. It sounds like properly made and pointed foglights should have a low and flat beam that would not become excessively intrusive to another driver's vision.
Going through the user manual for the Impreza, it looks like the foglights will only come on if the regular headlights are also turned on. From what I read, some jurisdictions do not permit independent operation of foglights anyway.
(And feel free to check out my other updated thread, link also in sig. 🙂)
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