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Old 11-11-2013, 01:10 PM
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Fog light reflector assemblies are design to provide a low and wide beam pattern, the idea being to illuminate the close in roadbed so you can continue forward SLOWLY, not so fast as to over-run the illumination. Useless as driving lights.

The yellow/amber tint will give your human eyes more ability to define terrain better.

That's why night skiiers use yellow tinted goggles.

I always use -AW (All-Weather) bulbs, only in actual daytime foggy conditions,and ALONE.
Old 11-11-2013, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by gnat
Really? That's annoying (from trying to figure out what you have).

Based on his description (headlights are whiter) I suspect he does have the HIDs though which would explain the color difference.
I know, I was shocked that a $100K car could come with halogen projectors...I read this post and was surprised - a C4S with halogens!!
http://www.renntech.org/forums/topic...-for-2003-c4s/
Old 11-11-2013, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by roadsession
I know, I was shocked that a $100K car could come with halogen projectors...I read this post and was surprised - a C4S with halogens!!
http://www.renntech.org/forums/topic...-for-2003-c4s/
Back in the days of the 996 I could kinda understand it as HIDs were still just for the higher end cars and not prevalent (though that was already changing by the end of the 996). Now what really gets me is that Halogens were the default option on my 2013 Cayenne. Really Porsche?

What surprised me in this case was halogens that look like HID projectors. I hadn't seen/heard of that before.
Old 11-11-2013, 04:49 PM
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that's a frekn beautiful set of headlights. in a decade or two, maybe the most sought after....IMHO-

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