The Ohio Random Thread... aka We Should Probably Be Working

[CTt3P5]

oh I want to see if I can light up the sides of the road with the fogs with the brights on. There are a lot of deer around where I live and its hard to keep an eye as it is

Ah, now I see. Thought you were asking as you didn't want them on together. Found this in the 'how-to' section from Ohio's (ok sometimes) very own AJ. lol It's for a P5 but going to guess it would be a similiar job on the MS3. http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123767000-fog-lights-always-on

And found this on Motortrend regarding the 2014 3's HUD

 

[WillD]

I don't think I've ever been in a car with fog lights on and say "Wow! Those really help!". Fog lights are useless...

My new car has no fog lights. If it's ever foggy I'm f-ed.

 

[CTt3P5]

^^^^nah, just drive like Evan and you'll be golden.

 

[THE Phen]

I don't think I've ever been in a car with fog lights on and say "Wow! Those really help!". Fog lights are useless...

With my P5, I was in some really thick fog in eastern PA one early morning and hit some thick ass fog. Fogs only, no headlights, and I could actually see a lot better than with the headlights on. The headlights just illuminated the fog, not cut thru it. Probably the only instance where it made a difference. Oh... that and heavy snow fall. Same reason.

 

[bigsho]

Well since my low beams blow mine actually help. They hit that crucial ditch/tree area on the side of the road. I have 55 watt 6000k HID fogs. Yes stock they are stupid useless

Ditch the blue colored low beams. 4300k is the same as daylight. The bluer you go, the worse your vision gets. Especially in the rain.

Edit: the blue looks brighter, but the lumens put out are significany less at 6000k than what 4300k puts onthe ground. Thats why all oem hids use 4300k bulbs. The blue tint you see is from light bending over the cutoff shield in the projector itself.

 

[ajkulish]

I had 100 watt yellows in my protege with the es bumper and they were great, on the protege now there are 2 5 inch round spot lights that throw just about as much light as the headlights

 

[XCLR8TN]

I got stuck out way east one night in my old neon with 8k HIDs in a reflector housing. It was one of the worst snow storms I have EVER driven in. To say I almost died a few times is an understatement. I had no idea where I was, so I didn't know any of the roads and couldn't see s***!!! Thank god for blizzaks lol.

I put some cheap autozone yellow fogs in the grill after that, and ditched the HIDs.

The 5k HIDs I had on the 2 were a perfect happy-medium.

 

[XCLR8TN]

Speaking of fog. It's like they read our minds lol.

http://jalopnik.com/scary-video-of-...ource=jalopnik_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[pmartz16]

that video scared the s*** out of me lol. Why was she going so fast?

 

[bigsho]

I got stuck out way east one night in my old neon with 8k HIDs in a reflector housing. It was one of the worst snow storms I have EVER driven in. To say I almost died a few times is an understatement. I had no idea where I was, so I didn't know any of the roads and couldn't see s***!!! Thank god for blizzaks lol.

I put some cheap autozone yellow fogs in the grill after that, and ditched the HIDs.

The 5k HIDs I had on the 2 were a perfect happy-medium.

Yep, that sums up what i was trying to explain. The lower the color temp, the better your night/bad weather vision is.

 

[Evan9999]

And found this on Motortrend regarding the 2014 3's HUD

Interesting. I want to see the HUD in use. Pretty sweet though

 

[thejeans]

not to mention that lower K is actually brighter... 4300k is closest to halogens in color but better output, and 4300k is brighter/better output than 6k, 8k or higher

if my HID's i currently have ever die, ill put 4500k in the lows, and 2500 or 3k retrofits into the fogs (yellow fogs)

 

[pmartz16]

I just ordered new bulbs. They are cheap so I will go for it. 4300k 35watt

 

[Lewis7789]

Thank you for choosing 35 watt. I remember #2, Wes and Peaches and I were on our way back from PA and Peaches had 55 watt bulbs ALL up in his 3 blinding me for 4 hours. Goooood times.

 

[pmartz16]

I already had a 35 watt ballast so I didn't want to buy a whole new kit.

 

[CTt3P5]

Interesting. I want to see the HUD in use. Pretty sweet though

Me too....was looking for pics of it in use but stumbled across this.

Thank you for choosing 35 watt. I remember #2, Wes and Peaches and I were on our way back from PA and Peaches had 55 watt bulbs ALL up in his 3 blinding me for 4 hours. Goooood times.

haha.....I had Phen blinding me on the way back from an OCC meet once with his 55W bulbs while going through the Poconos at night.

 

[etipp98]

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/06/27/how-fast-and-furious-6-should-have-ended/

 

[Kiseliok]

Speaking of fog. It's like they read our minds lol.

http://jalopnik.com/scary-video-of-...ource=jalopnik_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

lulz. good one.

 

[pmartz16]

Your not dead.... injured... or even burned? ....... nope.... boooop

 

[tweiss3]

Speaking of fog.... the fog on the way in to work this morning was terrible.