......I see loads of people with these on every day and they're not even as bright as the cars with DLRs. They just look the same as side lights which most cars have on all day anyway.
They might be the DRLs. A lot of the skodas use the fog lights as DRL's as does the Passat and Polo I think.
I know there was an option in VAG.COM to enable DRL on the Golfs front fog lights. Obviously its not the full power though.
Ah, I didn't know that. I was actually looking out for what cars were doing it when I just went to get some lunch. There were all kinds of cars with bright white LEDs where front fogs usually are but I saw 2 with the standard yellow tint lights and they were both Skoda.
If anything I find this more confusing though. If some cars use the front fogs as DRLs then that would seem to be technically breaking the law. Presumably they will just say "they aren't fog lights" which then begs the question how do you define a light as a fog light or not? If the same light can be both then you can switch the definition at will.
You say they aren't at full brightness. Do the government define a brightness level that designates a light as a fog light? I'm sure they must have a brightness range all lights must conform to but is there a separate designation for fogs? If there isn't a definition of what a fog light is, or if the definition is something vague such as "a light designed to be used in fog", then its not possible to prove that someone is using a fog light when they shouldn't be.
In any case, all the LED DRLs I saw were a lot lot brighter, so its hard to see how any fog light on the front could be considered inappropriate when other vehicles have much brighter LEDs in the same position. If one is breaking the law why is the other not? Or put another way, if DRLs are ok then there can't be anything wrong with using spots at the same or lower brightness.
