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Old 01-09-24, 12:17 PM
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A lot of German cars as well as some other makes sold in Germany have a feature where you can leave the left side parking lights on. This is something people do when the car is parked on a narrow street. There are plenty of those in Europe. In many situations, there is a small curb and you need to park with the right side tires on the curb. This all was my experience more than 30 years ago. There is probably some new tech such as a timer or remote on/off.
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Old 01-09-24, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Carfan94
Fog lights are a gimmick anyway. I’ve never found them useful on any vehicle I’ve owned. I say good riddance.
Love my foglights. In normal night time driving, they do a fantastic job of lighting the side of the road. And a small number of times I've driven in fog so thick that visibility was better with ONLY the foglights (headlights off).
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Old 01-09-24, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Carfan94
Fog lights are a gimmick anyway. I’ve never found them useful on any vehicle I’ve owned. I say good riddance.
to me they're just a status thing lol... i also can't really tell if they provide any help with driving through fog but they looks nice in pics



what i have no tolerance for is plastic inserts where fog lights would otherwise go if they were optioned
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Old 01-09-24, 12:59 PM
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Lexus won’t let you drive with just the fog lights on. Only with the low beams on.
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Old 01-09-24, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Carfan94
Lexus won’t let you drive with just the fog lights on. Only with the low beams on.
independent fog light control would be nice... fog lights + running lights only would be a nicer look with the matching halogen bulb color

the W211 lets you basically do an equivalent of that, something like this:



sorry for the watermark lol
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Old 01-09-24, 01:20 PM
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On my Grandparents Mercedes sedans. The car would do just that after exiting and closing the doors at night, fog lights on plus parking lights for minute.
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Old 01-09-24, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by geko29
Love my foglights. In normal night time driving, they do a fantastic job of lighting the side of the road. And a small number of times I've driven in fog so thick that visibility was better with ONLY the foglights (headlights off).
Same here. Completely agree. Also, I would rather have oncoming traffic see a set of two headlights and a set of two fog lights. Especially in rainy or bad weather.

Fog lights are essential IMO. And then enhance the exterior looks of the vehicle too
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Old 01-09-24, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill
They look weird to me. Like there were supposed to be fog lights but a lower trim was selected. Guess it’s sort of fitting as Audi likes to do faux exhaust outlets
That's what I thought as well when I saw them. Apparently Audi does nearly all fog lights via the main headlamp with an internal bulb/array for pointing low.

My exhausts are real though lol!
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Old 01-09-24, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Carfan94
Lexus won’t let you drive with just the fog lights on. Only with the low beams on.
Yeah it's annoying for sure, my domestic truck allows fogs only (they are actually really good) and my Audis I recoded to allow me control of every part of the lights at will. I can go full dark with no DRLs, or turn everything on in sequence or even drive full dark with only thermals running.

Problem I'm trying to solve right now is I can't find a way to have all interior lights off as well so I can drive with my NVGs only. The cluster is always partially lit if the car is on, it causes my tubes to gate down a little far for starless nights.
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Originally Posted by BayeauxLex
So an old neighbor left their lights on and in middle of night I went to let him know but I really wanted to tell him is that his wife is cheating on him whenever he’s out of town. Unfortunately when he came to the door, she was right there with him so I never got the chance to tell him. The guy she was cheating with would never park his truck in the driveway and would only show up whenever the husband was out of town. He parked his truck at a vacant lot.
Ha looks like you will have to find an excuse to go over there when she isn’t there.
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history of s-class for steve...

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Old 01-09-24, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Striker223

My exhausts are real though lol!
Thats good. I can’t believe Audi does the fake exhaust. Strange

new style LED, bladescan and laser lights are amazing

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Old 01-09-24, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Carfan94
Fog lights are a gimmick anyway. I’ve never found them useful on any vehicle I’ve owned. I say good riddance.
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I find they add illumination in the front which is a good thing.

Originally Posted by bitkahuna
history of s-class for steve...

https://youtu.be/2gEVkFahYH4?si=9iYUTeJcdlVz18R6
Thanks! I will check it out
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Old 01-09-24, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by AJT123
I saw an LS430 with the PCS, Lexus did it better I think.

Even though there’s a good reason, I’m not a fan of these convex MB emblems. MB star isn’t supposed to be bubbly.
Lexus basically does it the same way. They don’t look bubbly or convex to me


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Car wash on the way home today!



I installed a new glass coating on the windshield, Glaco we'll see how it does
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