NB Offset number plate help please!

sailaholic · Postby **sailaholic** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:42 am

You know fog lights on is illegal when not in fog yah? Not judging, just pointing it out.

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angusis2fast4u · Postby **angusis2fast4u** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:04 am

sailaholic wrote:You know fog lights on is illegal when not in fog yah? Not judging, just pointing it out.

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Yep haha, but you would probably be pulled over by a cop in a new ford falcon which uses its foglights as DRL's haha.

and they don't blind oncoming drivers so a cop won't pull me over since it got in his eyes

i'd be surprised if more NB drivers didn't use them... Just seems to risky to be running around without any kind of DRL in these things. Like I never did it in my NA because I accidently left them on once and came back to a dead battery but the NB has a warning chime so that won't happen

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:14 am

Don't worry, one of your fogs is covered anyway.

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:53 pm

sailaholic wrote:You know fog lights on is illegal when not in fog yah? Not judging, just pointing it out.

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Yeah, but I'm sure they'd still pull you up on it if they wanted to.
It has occurred to me that even though your average Melbourne-ite drives in fog once every... quite a while, and that not all cars have fog-lights, it's still most likely illegal to have a broken or covered fog-light in Victoria.

I'd like to replace mine with some sort of DRL or duct but I'm still figuring out how what and why.

and1 · Postby **and1** » Sat Nov 01, 2014 1:32 am

IMG_1934 by AndyPhan123, on Flickr

I had a centre MX5 Plus bracket and chopped off a leg to mount it to the side. Easy.

angusis2fast4u · Postby **angusis2fast4u** » Sat Nov 01, 2014 9:37 pm

and1 wrote:IMG_1934 by AndyPhan123, on Flickr

I had a centre MX5 Plus bracket and chopped off a leg to mount it to the side. Easy.

Australian number plates ruin it... Ill have to go USA sized plates

Mr Morlock · Postby **Mr Morlock** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 5:45 pm

You can fit drls in the grille area ( in the corners) - work very well-and fogs are definitely not legal except for inclement weather. Fogs also run 110watts and do not function like a erl. Erl is the only way to go to be seen.

angusis2fast4u · Postby **angusis2fast4u** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 6:09 pm

Mr Morlock wrote:You can fit drls in the grille area ( in the corners) - work very well-and fogs are definitely not legal except for inclement weather. Fogs also run 110watts and do not function like a erl. Erl is the only way to go to be seen.

ERL??

emily_mx5 · Postby **emily_mx5** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:58 pm

DRL? Daytime running light.
I replaced my foglight bulbs with 20w LEDs.
Not bright so don't blind other drivers, but they look like drl due to being crisp white led colour.
Never been pulled up for them.

angusis2fast4u · Postby **angusis2fast4u** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:03 pm

emily_mx5 wrote:DRL? Daytime running light.
I replaced my foglight bulbs with 20w LEDs.
Not bright so don't blind other drivers, but they look like drl due to being crisp white led colour.
Never been pulled up for them.

I know DRL, ERL is new to me haha
My plan would be down the road to install real bright bulbs or newer spot/flood lights into them (obviously wouldn't use them as DRL's then) but want DRL's to replace them