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partwerks
post May 26 2010, 08:20 PM
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Since I lost this person's contact information/email, I'm trying to get ahold of the fella who was making the foglights that had the lights from an airplane mounted into them. Apparently he had worked at a airport at some point. I was thinking his first name was Sergio, but I could be wrong on that. I recall he was from CA.
I had one light take a dump and need of a replacement is why.
Anyone know of this person. I was thinking this site is where I oringinally found out about them.

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post May 27 2010, 07:01 PM
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Let's get into the real world. 100W lights mounted low in the fog light position are useless as either fog lights (too bright, too much glare) or driving lights (too low for effective range, too much glare for oncoming drivers), and actually REDUCE your ability to see at any distance but right on top of 'em. This isn't my opinion, it's lighting 101 and eyesight 101. Why do you think the off-road racers have their driving lights mounted as high as possible? Those clowns who drive around with their fog lights on all the time are actually making it more difficult to see down the road. What they ARE doing is telling everyone else several things. "Hey, look at me, I'm rich enough (and cool enough) to have fog lights", and "Hey, look at me, I'm dumb enough to follow all those other sheep who think the way I do. "Oh, and I don't give a flying &#@* about other people on the road". Besides all that, using lights mounted that low for headlights is both illegal and stupid. They're below the minimum height, the lights themselves are probably NOT DOT approved for that application, and they give the nice (and possibly bored) officer a reason to stop you. I know I don't need that, and I'm guessing you don't, either.

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post May 27 2010, 11:00 PM
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QUOTE(Cap'n Krusty @ May 27 2010, 06:01 PM) *

Let's get into the real world. 100W lights mounted low in the fog light position are useless as either fog lights (too bright, too much glare) or driving lights (too low for effective range, too much glare for oncoming drivers), and actually REDUCE your ability to see at any distance but right on top of 'em. This isn't my opinion, it's lighting 101 and eyesight 101. Why do you think the off-road racers have their driving lights mounted as high as possible? Those clowns who drive around with their fog lights on all the time are actually making it more difficult to see down the road. What they ARE doing is telling everyone else several things. "Hey, look at me, I'm rich enough (and cool enough) to have fog lights", and "Hey, look at me, I'm dumb enough to follow all those other sheep who think the way I do. "Oh, and I don't give a flying &#@* about other people on the road". Besides all that, using lights mounted that low for headlights is both illegal and stupid. They're below the minimum height, the lights themselves are probably NOT DOT approved for that application, and they give the nice (and possibly bored) officer a reason to stop you. I know I don't need that, and I'm guessing you don't, either.

End of rant. The Cap'n

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) What he said. (kinda)
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partwerks   Fog lights   May 26 2010, 08:20 PM
Eric_Shea   Martin?   May 26 2010, 10:19 PM
partwerks   That name doesn't ring a bell. I think his las...   May 27 2010, 04:14 PM
realred914   might take the bad light to a local airport mainta...   May 27 2010, 04:23 PM
Mikey914   might take the bad light to a local airport maint...   May 27 2010, 04:48 PM
Rand   I'm actually working on a system to directly ...   May 27 2010, 07:28 PM
Nürburg Nomad   [quote name='Mikey914' post='1324599' date='May 2...   May 27 2010, 10:56 PM
Jeffs9146   Call EASY Auto Wreckers in Emeryville, CA! I ...   May 27 2010, 05:45 PM
partwerks   That web site looks real familiar. Seems like I we...   May 27 2010, 06:45 PM
Cap'n Krusty   Let's get into the real world. 100W lights mo...   May 27 2010, 07:01 PM
montoya 73 2.0   Let's get into the real world. 100W lights m...   May 27 2010, 09:57 PM
Lennies914   Let's get into the real world. 100W lights ...   May 27 2010, 10:12 PM
Elliot Cannon   Let's get into the real world. 100W lights m...   May 27 2010, 11:00 PM
bandjoey   Harbor Freight sells a set of lights that are only...   May 27 2010, 08:54 PM
monkeyboy   The old aircraft lights I remember were all curren...   May 27 2010, 09:14 PM
realred914   i drive around most of the time with my stock fog ...   May 27 2010, 10:17 PM
Jeffs9146   As has been said here over and over again, "w...   May 27 2010, 11:30 PM
Elliot Cannon   Nobody is shooting anyone down. If you want to do...   May 27 2010, 11:40 PM
realred914   Nobody is shooting anyone down. If you want to d...   May 27 2010, 11:51 PM
Jeffs9146   No body said they were going to point them u...   May 27 2010, 11:48 PM
Jeffs9146   He didn't say he was going to be running them ...   May 27 2010, 11:53 PM
Jeffs9146   This is productive!!! :beer2:   May 28 2010, 12:06 AM
realred914   :shoot2kill: :trophy: :toke: :lol: :cheer: :c...   May 28 2010, 09:01 AM
tomeric914   I paid $18 for my fog lights at the local FLA...   May 28 2010, 01:01 PM
BAM   Hi LK, You are looking for Diving Lights like the...   May 31 2010, 06:56 PM
RJMII   Hey LK... post a pic of the lightbulbs? maybe s...   May 31 2010, 07:12 PM


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