Fog light fact...

[antonio buffa]

After nearly two years of Cali owning I just realised an interesting fact that I am not sure all of us will know ( or indeed be interested in...! ): I occasionally caught glimpse of my front fog lights coming on when driving just in front of a reflective surface and turning the van round a corner, and never understood what was going on. Today I was driving in front of a fellow WV transporter driver for a while and looking in the back mirror I noticed that every time he turned round a corner/bend the corresponding side fog light would fade on whilst turning and off when the turning was complete. WV must have thought that throwing a bit of extra light onto the new direction you are taking would help...

 

[Meoncoast]

only 2 years to notice.

 

[WelshGas]

After nearly two years of Cali owning I just realised an interesting fact that I am not sure all of us will know ( or indeed be interested in...! ): I occasionally caught glimpse of my front fog lights coming on when driving just in front of a reflective surface and turning the van round a corner, and never understood what was going on. Today I was driving in front of a fellow WV transporter driver for a while and looking in the back mirror I noticed that every time he turned round a corner/bend the corresponding side fog light would fade on whilst turning and off when the turning was complete. WV must have thought that throwing a bit of extra light onto the new direction you are taking would help...

Normal and only works at low speed. Can’t remember the cut off speed.

 

[Stoneybroke]

Under 20mph, if memory serves.

 

[Seaview]

After nearly two years of Cali owning I just realised an interesting fact that I am not sure all of us will know ( or indeed be interested in...! ): I occasionally caught glimpse of my front fog lights coming on when driving just in front of a reflective surface and turning the van round a corner, and never understood what was going on. Today I was driving in front of a fellow WV transporter driver for a while and looking in the back mirror I noticed that every time he turned round a corner/bend the corresponding side fog light would fade on whilst turning and off when the turning was complete. WV must have thought that throwing a bit of extra light onto the new direction you are taking would help...

We only became aware after parking up and a chap walked up and said one of your lights are out. When we checked all the lights out they worked fine, we worked out it was most likely a special cornering feature which we now realise is in a number of VW vehicles.

 

[Joker 1299]

Total waste of space. It does not help you see round corners and potentially confuses people who might mistake it for a direction indicator. And, they are not LED

 

[ThomasHJ]

I always figured it was to light up low obstacles like curves and things when you take a corner, so you wouldn't hit anything that;s quite low

 

[kurienp]

And a very useful feature at that

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[ThomasHJ]

I always figured it was to light up low obstacles like curves and things when you take a corner, so you wouldn't hit anything that;s quite low

'curves' was meant to be 'curbs'

 

[Vantastic2]

only 2 years to notice.

Still finding things out 6 & I/2 yrs later, like what SYN switch does with the heating LOL !

 

[Jodalo]

Total waste of space. It does not help you see round corners and potentially confuses people who might mistake it for a direction indicator. And, they are not LED

Very useful when manoeuvring at low speeds in unlit areas and in the uk direction indicators are amber/orange and are intermittent so I don’t see the confusion there.

 

[Deskman]

And it can be disabled via VAGCOM.