Thoughts on amber or white lighting for fog lights?

[Dad]

Thinking of getting the new DD fog light kit for the Maverick which is a nice clean install, looks OEM or better, and comes with one's choice of amber or white color. Hoping to get some opinions (or facts . . . even better) on which color is better for illuminating the road. Don't get much fog here, but the headlights alone do not do as well in night rain.

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[RedRider]

The Euro-yellow penetrates fog and heavy rain better than white light. You don't see many vehicles with the correct fog light colour, as most people with driving lights think that they are fog lights for some reason. Both of them will not reach out nearly as far as the headlights, as they are set up for a wide and low pattern instead.

 

[LSchicago]

Amber/Yellow is a traditional Fog light color. Driving Lights are usually white. White glares back more in actual fog.

 

[TheRef]

I did order the DD fog lights.
Watched the installation video, have to take front bumper off - going to be a little challenge. Probably going to have my local body shop (who does a lot of modifications) install them.
Ford should of had this option from day one. The looks alone would sell.

 

[NY DIY GUY]

Thinking of getting the new DD fog light kit for the Maverick which is a nice clean install, looks OEM or better, and comes with one's choice of amber or white color. Hoping to get some opinions (or facts . . . even better) on which color is better for illuminating the road. Don't get much fog here, but the headlights alone do not do as well in night rain.

I can tell you that with my other vehicle I noticed a difference when switching from 6k white to 3k yellow for my fog lights. With the 6k it glares back at you a little in fog and snow. With the 3k you see the road a lot better in bad weather without the glare messing with your eyes.

 

[Aherpa]

Thinking of getting the new DD fog light kit for the Maverick which is a nice clean install, looks OEM or better, and comes with one's choice of amber or white color. Hoping to get some opinions (or facts . . . even better) on which color is better for illuminating the road. Don't get much fog here, but the headlights alone do not do as well in night rain.

Headlights (white lights) light up the fog and prevent you from seeing very far into it. Orange/yellow light does not light the fog so much so you can see further into it.
My view on 'fog lights' is, if you can't have the headlights off and use only the fog lights, they are not very useful. If you going for the look and don't care about that fact that the headlights will still blind you in actual fog, then go for it.

 

[Darnon]

I prefer white, but I'm using the additional lighting more for discerning if that's a kamikaze deer near the periphery of the road so the fuller spectrum is more useful than seeing everything reflected in yellow. So technically a "driving light" although the light cutoff of a proper fog profile keeps it from throwing glare unnecessarily at other traffic.

 

[rlhdweman]

I find that yellow/amber works much better in rain, fog & snow.

 

[Montana]

I've had yellow on multiple vehicles.

I'll be getting white on the Maverick and every vehicle from here on out. As long as it's not blue white, and actually a nice normal white, I much prefer it to the contrasting yellow.

There are a lot of people who say yellow is better... Even on the best of vehicles with all my DD lighting setups I never noticed any difference. I tested just about every single light DD has to offer on my previous Tacoma. Eventually I swapped to all whites, which is why I will be buying white from now on. Less conflict between what you see and if there is any difference in "reflection" from snow/rain etc etc, it's minimal. Yellow is easier on the eyes for longer duration and the wavelength is a discussion to be had, but it's really not that serious.

Buy what you want.

 

[Dad]

Headlights (white lights) light up the fog and prevent you from seeing very far into it. Orange/yellow light does not light the fog so much so you can see further into it.
My view on 'fog lights' is, if you can't have the headlights off and use only the fog lights, they are not very useful. If you going for the look and don't care about that fact that the headlights will still blind you in actual fog, then go for it.

My take on your post: Use amber color if you want to have more light penetration for fog, use white if you want more light on the peripheral.
Thank you.

 

[Dad]

I've had yellow on multiple vehicles.

I'll be getting white on the Maverick and every vehicle from here on out. As long as it's not blue white, and actually a nice normal white, I much prefer it to the contrasting yellow.

There are a lot of people who say yellow is better... Even on the best of vehicles with all my DD lighting setups I never noticed any difference. I tested just about every single light DD has to offer on my previous Tacoma. Eventually I swapped to all whites, which is why I will be buying white from now on. Less conflict between what you see and if there is any difference in "reflection" from snow/rain etc etc, it's minimal. Yellow is easier on the eyes for longer duration and the wavelength is a discussion to be had, but it's really not that serious.

Buy what you want.

Thank you for sharing your experiences and advice!

 

[Dad]

I find that yellow/amber works much better in rain, fog & snow.

Thank you!

 

[thev8man]

Thinking of getting the new DD fog light kit for the Maverick which is a nice clean install, looks OEM or better, and comes with one's choice of amber or white color. Hoping to get some opinions (or facts . . . even better) on which color is better for illuminating the road. Don't get much fog here, but the headlights alone do not do as well in night rain.

Booyah

 

[Junk]

I don't use fog lights. Have found they just don't do a thing so am glad ford excluded them.

 

[gp1200x]

I used to use yellow but I like to keep fog lights on all the time for more side view (deer sightings) and obstacles. Switched to white a long time back because police would flash me if I had yellow lights on in more populated areas or on busier highways. Not worth the hassle of getting pulled over or a ticket. Switched to white lights and no longer an issue. I think yellow lights actually bother oncoming traffic more than white light. Fog lights do greatly help seeing in front and on the sides...I use them with high and low beams....really help with high beams since they produce less light directly down in front and on the sides of the vehicle.

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