This is too anyone who has fog lights. When you turn on your lights do you put them on too all the time? Or do you only turn them on when they are needed. I am just asking because I often see people with there fogs lights on all the time (not during the day just at night) as oppose to just using them when its "foggy".

My X didn't come with the Stock Fogs, so I had the PIAA's driving Lights installed in my X...and they are pretty bright, so I only use them when really needed, like lonely dark roads...or in rainy days and nights....

I don't use them around town or for freeway/interstate travel but, I do use them on 2 lanes more for critter lights than fog.

I have friends that don't even know where the switch is to turn off their fog lights, so theirs are on all the time. I personally use mine when there is fog, rain or snow, but at this time of the year I use them all the time after dark, as they light up the side of the road and help identify those pesky deer before I hit them.

Tom

I just have them on all the time. I like the fact that it lights up the area closer to the front of the truck alot better than headlights do alone.

I left mine on..

I left mine on when I had fog lights.

I keep mine on. They shouldn't be a distraction to other drivers, and they give a slightly larger range of view. Plus, it looks cool.

In town, off, out looking for errant ungulates, on.

Ditto.

Thats what I was looking for

I got pulled over for having them on when it wasn't foggy. I think he was just looking for a reason to pull me over, he didn't give me a ticket or anything.
I keep them off now unless foggy or like the others said, on a dark lonely road.

The factory fogs, at least on the 00/01 models, are pretty damn useless. I really couldn't tell a difference between having them on or off at night other than the pavement just ahead and a little to the side was lit better, which does nothing. I suppose they would actually be of use in FOG, but anyone using them as "critter lights" or to see a deer about to wander into the road, or to see any further ahead, is delusional. At anything more than school-zone speed you won't see something to the side in time soon enough to react any faster with or without them, unless maybe they cast just enough light beyond the main beam spread to reflect back off their eyes.

I have a set of bumper-mounted 55W 5"x9" Bosch lights that I have aimed to just overlap and mainly flank the main low-beam spread, they provide excellent lighting to the sides, and far enough ahead to see a stray critter in advance. Compared to my old stock fogs, it's like night and day. I rarely use them though.

Personally, I can't stand it when people leave their fog lights on all the time, though it's really just the ones that have installed their own fog or driving lights that are actually usefully (often irritatingly) bright and typically aimed poorly (carelessly, or for the ricers, deliberately I'd bet).

Leave em on all the time. I agree that they are pretty much useless but I like the way they look being on all the time. I have replaced both headlight bulbs and still have the original fog lamps with over 120k on it.

when i had mine i left them on. now since i have my bullbar in front of my headlights, my lows act like foggies, my highs act like lows, and my 5x7 100w's are my "highs" when i can't see head (or tail) lights...

I find the stock fogs to be slightly helpful in fog so that's mainly when I use them. Or when driving on dirt roads at night, they do a good job of lighting up ruts, holes and so forth.

mine are on all the time
it looks sweet at night.

Yeah, sweet...

I had Electroken's mod where I could turn the fog lights on independent of the headlights. Really useful where I used to live, as there was a long stretch of road that I took to get to get work that seemed to be foggy all the damn time, night or day.

So why do people constantly flash their highs at me, as if I have my high beams on? Fuckin annoying. I flash my real highs at them just to let them know I don't go around with my high beams on. Anyone else have this problem, or is it just the fact that my X is way taller than those losers in their Tempos?

One problem seems to be that most people don't bother to line up their fog lights and many of them are aimed too high and are irritating to oncoming drivers.

I only use mine when I find a need for them as I do not find them cool, especially when they glare in oncoming drivers eyes!

Tom

Cicero, yes, many 2002-2004 owners report that.

Only when I need them...otherwise I feel (and look) stupid!

I say it's your truck, you pay for it. If you want to put them on then do it. Mine are aftermarket ones, that the dealer installed for me. Sometimes i put them on, sometimes i don't. But i myself am not going to listen to someone who tells me when i should or should not put them on. Heck it's my truck. I say do what you want.