Re-aimed Foglight - more benefits

Decided to reaim the foglights for better visibility. The aiming of the foglights on the V five to me is too low. I'm sure toyota followed SAE standards for aiming foglights. But with the V, our vehicle is already too low to the ground and following the SAE standard does not give us the optimum benefit of having a foglight. To make it useful, I have decidied to reaim the foglight higher. The height of the foglight from the top to the ground was measured to be 15 in. Distance of the foglight to the garage door was 8 feet. Height of foglight cutoff beam was about 5-6 in. high that came from the factory. You can compare the beam cutoff in the picture - left was original and right was reaimed at about 12-13 in. in height. At this adjustment, foglights does not blind incoming drivers. So guys, do yourself a favor. Readjust those foglights and change the bulbs with a putco jet yellow bulbs. This method can be applied to other priuses too.

 

My take on this is that, older designs have have this problem. But modern designs have eliminated this problem. There are many OEM reflector HID headlight housing out there that don't cause glaring and would disagree with you on this one - ex. toyota sienna's with HID reflector housing. The V five's OEM foglights has a very good cutoff beam pattern compared to my regular prius foglight as seen in the pictures. As I have stated, it did not cause glaring to incoming traffic - did the test myself because I am very concern about any glaring.

 

Do you know what brand is your camry's foglights? Glare can also be a result of a reflection from the ground depending on surface, distance and angle.

 

I don't think the valeo's had a cutout in the lower reflector surface. I think what's important is how they designed the reflector housing so it won't cause glaring issues. I test glaring issues with my naked eye by parking the car - vehicle with newly adjusted foglight with it's headlights and foglights on and get my other car(regular prius that is low to the ground) and drive it towards the test vehicle to see if causes any blinding or glaring effect on me. I think this is the best way to test it because you are now actually doing it in a real scenario. If it does not cause any glaring and blinding effect, then it passed the test. My hypothesis to your test with a video recorder with headlights on and truning on the foglights later is simply an increase in lumens or illumination and I'm sure the video recorder will pick it up. It's just like turning one light bulb on and turning on another bulb after 5 or 10 sec. Then you see the effects of an increase in illumination

I do however agree with you when it comes with projectors headlights.

 

What year model is your camry SE?

 

The re aiming of the foglights were meant to move the beam coverage farther away but not far enough than what the low beams cover. The re-aiming is not parallel to the ground and is still at an angle to avoid glaring problems. I have driven cars(low to the ground) with reaimed foglights and never had any issues with it or have been flashed by incoming dirivers as long as you aim it properly. A flashlight pointed at a mirror is not the same as how the foglights project the light pattern. IMO, as long as you do it right, it won't glare incoming traffic or blind you when driving in heavy fog. As I have stated in my previous post, you test it with your naked eye. Can't get any better than that. I've done this over the years with different vehicles and gave me BETTER visibility in bad weather conditions.