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Old 06-22-2004, 10:58 AM
tscott
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Ditch Lights?

Maybe this is crazy, but where I live we don't have streetlights and the county says the road is too narrow to paint a fog line (a white stripe at the edge of the road). As a result, when headlight glare from an oncoming car blinds you, you can't see how far to the right you can move without going in the ditch.

It occurred to me that a ditchlight could probably be aimed to just illuminate the road edge and ditch and still not blind oncoming drivers. I'm thinking it would need to be a strong focussed beam and mounted in an adjustable housing. (Actually, a remote controlled searchlight replacing the passenger RVM would work too.)

So, has anyone mounted a front bumper light and if so, how did it work out?

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Old 06-22-2004, 11:55 AM
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If you have DOT lights swap them out for a set of Euros. The Euro lights with properly adjusted fog lights will illuminate the edge of the road just as you need.

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