Best fog lights on the market

Excellent explanation, thank you.

Usually the only time we have fog in our area is in the winter months during an inversion.

 

I was going to attempt to answer this, but @memario1214 answered way better than I possibly could have!

Yellow SS3's seem to be the best choice for fog lights to be used as fog lights.

 

So far I have mainly used my stock fogs to supplement my headlights on clear nights.

It's rare for me to encounter adverse driving conditions at night, I don't get out much.

 

Great name, btw. Many many years ago I’d go slope flying with my buddy. We even got some of the foam combat planes to knock each other out of the air!

 

Thanks, I've been building and flying RC models for about 45 years. Slope soaring has always been my favorite. That's one of the reasons why I moved from the flat Midwest to West over 20 years ago.

IMO, glider flying is far more challenging than powered planes. I flew powered for many years too.

 

I have been as well. The nice thing is that an SAE fog can still be used that way.

I have driven in some shitty ass conditions at night, and am really looking forward to getting some nice upgraded fogs.

As much fun as my wannabe Rockstar days were, driving home 2 hours in a snowstorm after closing the bar we played at was a miserable experience I'll never forget. Part of the misery was that it looked like we were in a Star Wars movie with the snow flying at the windshield the whole time. It was like driving into this for 2 hours:

 

Sooooo true. We had a place that was up pretty high and had wind bursts up to 45 but if you came down a bit the thermal flying was just as nice. That’s where I spent most of my time just learning a figure right and trying not to crash what we built. That’s why I went to foam combat, let heartbreaking when I had a rough day.

 

Totally understand.

I slope large Buttes in the desert, hence why I own a 4Runner.

I prefer big wind, at least 25+. I watch the 10-day forecast like a hawk.

 

Best, is a relative term. For my use upgrading from halogen to LED with the Cali raised fog light bulbs was the best choice. Better light output, color choice between white and yellow, quick installation (30 minutes), cheap price tag ($100) and street legal. With other supplemental lights for offroading I just needed better street driving lighting and did not want to replace the halogen headlights.

 

When I compared them to the halogen bulbs with just one installed, the pattern looked identical except it extended a little further out from the center, was brighter and actually white (when not on the amber mode).

 

What are you running for Low Beam head light set up?

 

Lamin-X in Yellow!

 

Morimoto HID's. Not sure of the exact bulb, but they are really bright.

 

I have Baja sae squadron amber on my tacoma. Will be installing the DD sae fog amber on 4runner soon.

Will be able to do a side by side test.

 

I consistently use my factory LED fogs right now to fill in the gaps of the factory LED headlights, which I feel are very under-whelming. Would the Diode Dynamics SS3 pro or max, in 6000K be a good compliment to my current headlights, or would the completely over power them? I just want every day performance improvements...

(As far as amber lights go for fog, now, or other off-road conditions, I plan to add a DD 30" light bar at a later date.)

 

Not sure on the led’s I’ve been running hid in my factory housings and the ss3 max overpower them upclose and width wise

 

Thank you! Are you running them in the stock headlights? I'm asking because your beam pattern is really wide and clean. I have LEDs in the stock head light and my beam pattern is so scattered.

 

Thanks! Yes, running them in the stock headlights.

 

Just got my 1st shipment in, thank you!

 

I have the DD SS3 Pro yellows. Cutoff could be better. This is at 25ft. I would do sports if i had do do it over.

 

Here are pics of the Cali Raised fog LED bulbs, the white setting does have some upwash at distance. But the yellow is still lower than the low beams and would be good on the street.

Low beams (halogen, boo)


Low beam and white LED fog setting


Low beam and yellow LED fog bulbs


Low beam, white and yellow LED fog bulbs together


Low and high beams -phone camera might have auto exposure adjusted a little but height has good reference

 

I agree with newlife. Have DD SS3 Max in white and they are very bright up close and have pretty wide spread to sides of vehicle. Definitely brighter up close than my factory LED headlights. You definitely would want to aim the Max’s correctly due to their brightness. Otherwise you will be lighting up street signs like crazy and blinding people in front of you.

 

I have diode Ss3 pro fogs and ditch lights. Great lights, great fitment, easy install.

One gripe. One of the ditch lights shipped without a rubber grommet for the wire harness that goes into the light itself. I reappropriated from another harness. No biggie but that's just rookie QC.

 

OK, installed DD Stage Series sport amber. Also installed the DD SS 6 grill light bar white.
Thoughts and comparison to Baja Design SAE an=mber fog on my Tacoma:
Basic look with my horrible SR5 stock headlights

Baja Fog and TRD lights on Tacoma white on top and yellow down low where it should be. I run these most of the time like this


Lights plus DD fogs on 4Runner

Results: Light Bar is worthwhile. Decently easy install. Great white light output but to run them all the time, I had to angle down quite a bit so I don't blind someone. This takes the distance away but I can use them to supplement my crappy headlights. Initially had them level. This gave fantastic lite output but could not run in traffic.

The DD Fogs are way too bright to run all the time. They blow out the stock headlines and make everything yellow. Really yellow. Much brighter than the Baja's. This was the 4runner kit. I did not see an obvious way to angle them down. (If anyone knows a way to angle fogs down, let me know).
You will see from pic that the DD fogs seem to be same light line as the stock headlights, where Bajas are under the headlights on Tacoma.

There was also quite the gap on the DD's. The Baja's were a cleaner install but the DD's are good enough but disappointed with the gap.

If I can't angle the fogs down, I can't run them all the time or people will not be happy. they are really bright and hit oncoming traffic.
I can only assume the whites would be the same issue but the world would not be yellow.

Whole setup is big improvement for driving in dark suburbia or rural roads but I had to angle the light bar down and I will have to TURN OFF the fogs on Highway or traffic conditions. That was not my goal.