Operating fog lights other than permitted = $117 Fine

[cranners]

Got pulled over by Knox TMU on Friday night and was issued with a fine for having my fog lights on, no warning just the fine straight away.

Has anyone else had this fine or known someone to get it?? I have read into it on the Vic Roads website and never knew it was a law until Friday night.

Discuss..

[TBO240]

cops drive around all the time in there ss comodores with them on,that how you can tell there coming up behind you of a night time.

[cranners]

thats true, he had them on behind me when i was pulled over

[holmsy]

difference between fog lights and driving lights tho i think you will find

[cranners]

What are the lights on my XR then, driving lights or fog lights??

[bentls]

foglights

[cranners]

hmmm...

[Kenaz]

It's part of the Australian Road Rules.

You're only permitted to use fog lights in hazardous conditions like heavy rain, dust storms etc.

Pretty sure Sunny got dicked and created a similar thread a while ago...

[bentls]

heaps of people have been done, marktd everyones best mate got done ... basically dont use them when there are street lights etc.. knox tmu got you so im guessing was in pretty built up area...
country cops probly wont get you for it even if its clear as, just cos it lights up the sides of the road better to see animals run out etc etc....

[cranners]

haha they cops were really good apart from the fine, they advised me to get some new tyres and check the ride height cause it looks to be too low....then let me go!

[bentls]

thats ok then i guess but petit is back in TMU now and dicking people so watch out man dont wanna see a major defect on the dosejet

[cranners]

Yeah i was only there picking up a freind from the irish, never usually go near knox for that reason.

I was also accussed of cutting off a taxi, hence the reason he pulled me over, but i soon proved that i was no where near the taxi area at o-zone.....i dont even know where it is lol :S

[LOW_XR]

i got done in scotts car (gthofan) for them. and he has the ghia lights so they are only parkers. still got fined. assholes haha

[CaRtZ]

same for high beams

[SnyperEB]

Sounds like revenue raising to me.

[eb-baby]

country cops probly wont get you for it even if its clear as, just cos it lights up the sides of the road better to see animals run out etc etc....

May be different down there but my brother still got done for them driving on a single lane country road late at night out near where I live, I didn't actually believe him when he told me.

[ausedwagon]

so whats the difference with driving lights and fog lights?

[iliov]

xr6 lights are driving lights, check ur manual.

[SNR]

If I drive my mx5 around without my driving lights on I can't see jack when turning on the road close. So I either turn the driving lights off or smash through potholes? Until they fix the roads I think i'll leave them on, thanks VICTORIA!

[bentls]

xr6 lights are driving lights, check ur manual.

is that why there is fog drawn on the switch infront of the light?

[Kenaz]

xr6 lights are driving lights, check ur manual.

We're talking BAs here mate. The owners manual recognises them as Fog Lamps.

[[Sterling]]

If I drive my mx5 around without my driving lights on I can't see jack when turning on the road close. So I either turn the driving lights off or smash through potholes? Until they fix the roads I think i'll leave them on, thanks VICTORIA!

I'd love to see you fight that in court.

[KR1STO]

copped the same thing in a mates SS... not happy!!!

[t1MMy]

Sounds like revenue raising to me.

LOL, yeah....that's what it is Shaun. Then they go back to the station and play "go fish" with all the fines they wrote out for the night. 'Do you haaaaaave....fine for broken head light?.....'Go Fish!"

[burnt turtle]

my driving/fog lights are hard wired to parkers from factory. i wonder if that will make a difference...

[ebgt88]

Look a friend of mine got done in her 06 subaru with her fog lights on. She said i never knew there was a switch for them and i brought the car brand new and they have always been on. They didn't care and issued the fine so now she just leaves them off and in the owners manual they say they are driving lights? go figure

[OED666]

Well, I'm sick of kunts using their
driving/fog whatever u want to call them lights, especially when I am on the highway back to the coast. Your eyes are adjusted to the dark, then some kunt comes along with all their lights on and blinds you! Fine away
pigs!

[LTDHO]

It's a law that the police will only enforce from time to time. I mean I am yet to see a late model Commodore without them on. You see cop cars with them on also. Two laws one for us and one for them.

[bentls]

my driving/fog lights are hard wired to parkers from factory. i wonder if that will make a difference...

yeh but josh there was a recall done on fairlane ghias fairmont ghias etc when they came back in to convert them to cornering lamps...

[SnyperEB]

Sounds like revenue raising to me.

LOL, yeah....that's what it is Shaun. Then they go back to the station and play "go fish" with all the fines they wrote out for the night. 'Do you haaaaaave....fine for broken head light?.....'Go Fish!"

They have a quota they have to meet and its shit.

[t1MMy]

Sounds like revenue raising to me.

LOL, yeah....that's what it is Shaun. Then they go back to the station and play "go fish" with all the fines they wrote out for the night. 'Do you haaaaaave....fine for broken head light?.....'Go Fish!"

They have a quota they have to meet and its shit.

Erm, no they don't.

[cranners]

Has anyone written a letter to the "police" requesting a warning to be issued and have the fine rejected, cause a police officer i know requiremended i attempt that..

[OED666]

requremended

bbq?

[Kenaz]

Has anyone written a letter to the "police" requesting a warning to be issued and have the fine rejected, cause a police officer i know requiremended i attempt that..

Couldn't hurt...

I once got out of a speeding fine after my Nanna wrote a letter to the authorities

[galapogos01]

requremended

bbq?

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[burnt turtle]

my driving/fog lights are hard wired to parkers from factory. i wonder if that will make a difference...

yeh but josh there was a recall done on fairlane ghias fairmont ghias etc when they came back in to convert them to cornering lamps...

yeh i know this but mine hasnt had it done, and thats the way its staying

[mad_keen]

ummm i saw an ad on tv not long ago saying there was going to be changes to the rules and one of them was $40 fine for foglights.

that was in qld

[rhys]

requremended

bbq?

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

LMFAO!

I see you also watched the videos in that body builders social anxiety thread.