Fog Lights

[Question]

Is it illegal to use fog lights in Texas? How about in your state?

I had a friend pulled over and given a warning (I think verbal) for this. This was in Oklahoma, but apparently using your fog lights up there is the same as having your brights on.

[JD45]

In CA you must have them on in conjuction with your regular headlights. You cannot drive soley with them on.

[txinvestigator1]

In Texas you can use fog lights. There is a hige problem with people having them aimed wrong so they shine up in the face of oncoming drivers, and of people forgetting they are FOG lights. Not "driving down the road in perfectly fine weather looking cool woth my fog lights on blinding other drivers lights"

A few snippets from Texas laws


(d) Not more than four of the following may be lighted at one
time on the front of a motor vehicle:

(1) a headlamp required by this chapter; or

(2) a lamp, including an auxiliary lamp or spotlamp, that
projects a beam with an intensity brighter than 300 candlepower.



§547.328. Fog lamps permitted.

(a) A motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than two
fog lamps.

(b) A fog lamp shall be:

(1) mounted on the front of the vehicle at a height from 12
to 30 inches; and

(2) aimed so that no part of the high-intensity portion of
the beam from a lamp mounted to the left of center on a vehicle
projects a beam of light at a distance of 25 feet that is higher than
four inches below the level of the center of the lamp.

(c) Lighted fog lamps may be used with lower headlamp beams
as specified by Section 547.333.



§547.333. Multiple-beam lighting equipment required.

(a) Unless provided otherwise, a headlamp, auxiliary driving
lamp, auxiliary passing lamp, or combination of those lamps mounted on
a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle or motor- driven cycle:

(1) shall be arranged so that the operator can select at will
between distributions of light projected at different elevations; and

(2) may be arranged so that the operator can select the
distribution automatically.

(b) A lamp identified by Subsection (a) shall produce:

(1) an uppermost distribution of light or composite beam that
is aimed and emits light sufficient to reveal a person or vehicle at a
distance of at least 450 feet ahead during all conditions of loading;
and

(2) a lowermost distribution of light or composite beam that:

(A) is aimed and emits light sufficient to reveal a person or
vehicle at a distance of at least 150 feet ahead; and

(B) is aimed so that no part of the high-intensity portion of
the beam on a vehicle that is operated on a straight, level road under
any condition of loading projects into the eyes of an approaching
vehicle operator.

(c) A person who operates a vehicle on a roadway or shoulder
shall select a distribution of light or composite beam that is aimed
and emits light sufficient to reveal a person or vehicle at a safe
distance ahead of the vehicle, except that:

(1) an operator approaching an oncoming vehicle within 500
feet shall select:

(A) the lowermost distribution of light or composite beam,
regardless of road contour or condition of loading; or

(B) a distribution aimed so that no part of the
high-intensity portion of the lamp projects into the eyes of an
approaching vehicle operator; and

(2) an operator approaching a vehicle from the rear within
300 feet may not select the uppermost distribution of light.

(d) A motor vehicle of a model year of 1948 or later, other
than a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle, that has multiple-beam
lighting equipment shall be equipped with a beam indicator that is:

(1) designed and located so that the lighted indicator is
visible without glare to the vehicle operator; and

(2) lighted only when the uppermost distribution of light is
in use.

[mcsap]

IN my state, fogs can only be used with low beams. And there are regs on where they can be mounted as far as how high, how far apart etc.

[Joeyd6]

You can have them in NY, but they must be aimed at the raod...not drivers in front of you and can not be your sole light soucre.

[fatboyjim154]

people forgetting they are FOG lights. Not "driving down the road in perfectly fine weather looking cool woth my fog lights on blinding other drivers lights"

'zactly the same here or you get,
"look it says here in my cars manual they're driving lights"

Well until ford write the law statutes I'll continue as I am then".