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Originally Posted by speeder
Thanks, I think that the bulbs are only 55w. (Just verified).
I was looking up the state regulations wrt fog lights and now I might have another problem. The maximum height mounted is 30" and my 4x4 F-250, (stock/not lifted), puts them slightly higher if mounted on top of bumper, where I want them. There isn't anywhere else on the front of vehicle to mount these particular lights, other than on a light bar, which of course would be higher.
That got me wondering about all of the lights I see on light bars on the roofs of Jeeps and 4x4 trucks, or even on top of hoods, etc. What the what?  |
In CA (IDK about other states) auxiliary lights are more or less prohibited no matter where they are mounted. The fix is to use the covers while on the public roads.
That won't help you though. I think you'd like the convenience of not having to get out of the cab to remove the covers if the weather is so bad as to need them. The plus side of using the covers is that the lights are protected from breakage, which happens more than you think.
If you put the lights on top of the bumper you will be violating the 30" rule but but by how much? It would take a real dick of a cop to pull you over for that aspect alone. You'd need to shine them right in his eyes and then he will maybe write you, but it will be primarily for using the lights, not the couple of inches over regulations. IOW, the fix-it ticket for those types of lights is to remove them altogether. Unless you can somehow convince the authority that the covers are ALWAYS in place.
I think the poachers that run these pointed somewhere but directly down the road have given auxiliary lights a bad rep.
You don't see the in SoCal so much. Most here are posers, not poachers.