Fog Light Shape

[gnutruk]

Might do a front bumper upgrade soon, and found myself thinking about putting in better fog lights.

 

It seems to me – intuitively – that rectangular shaped fog lights would do a better job than round. Everything else being equal, a rectangular shaped beam seems likely to get more intense light to those critical outside corners while still adequately covering the rest of the necessary field. Even though they have ‘tuned’ interior directional molding ridges, round light seem like they would inevitably “waste” light out the tops and bottoms, which isn’t a part of the vision field fog lights need to cover.

 

Gotta admit, however, that round looks better. But my final decision will go for practical over style every time.

 

What do you think?

 

gnutruk

[dino688]

i've always been partial to the recangle ones myself. I wish I had a set in my truck. The "custom" lower front bumper on my truck doesnt have spaces for it so I'd have to get another front bumper and fog lights. But I digress, I do think the rectangle lights work better. got a round set of factory hellas in the 4runner but they have almost no side to side light, only the first 4 feet in front of the vehicle do they really work. my 2 cents

[dewfpo]

I have to agree with you. Rectangular lights put out the proper beam for a true 'fog' lamp.

 

I have factory fog lamps on 4 of out vehicles.... every one of them is rectangular.

 

DEWFPO

[carguru]

With the factory fog setup, the rectangular ones on the '02 'rado kicks the Z71 Tahoe's factory round ones in brightness and pattern, but that is not saying very much for either. The newer design rectangular ones in the '03 up 'rados seem to be much better than both of ours.

[dino688]

With the factory fog setup, the rectangular ones on the '02 'rado kicks the Z71 Tahoe's factory round ones in brightness and pattern, but that is not saying very much for either.  The newer design rectangular ones in the '03 up 'rados seem to be much better than both of ours.

 

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yea those new ones are a lot larger than the 99-03 sierra rectangle lights. they also make the truck look a lot more aggressive too

[budhayes3]

I like the rectangular fogs on my 99...yea, they could be brighter, but they do the job and I like the styling of them. The rectangular shape flows nicely with the lines of the truck.

[USA1Fan]

The fogs on our '04s are the best part about the front ends on 'em! I thought I liked them, but my father recently gave them an enthusiastic endorsement. If you knew him you'd understand that for him, that's the same as gushing.