GoldenShoes

I was just wondering if any other owners of 04-06's with the integrated fogs get high-beamed by other drivers coming towards you at night? This is while driving with your low-beams and fogs on.

It seems to happen to me almost every night!

It's pretty annoying to me, and I usually just pull the dick maneuver and click my high-beams on for a second to show them that they're not on.

ttribe

Yeah, I've had it happen (same problem with my '91 Integra back in the day). I usually just give them a brief flash of my ACTUAL high beams and that pretty much ends the issue.

BTW, I only use my fogs when the weather dictates (rain, occasional fog, etc.); which, in Phoenix, is about one Thursday every leap year.

guitarplayer16

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My DRL (Canadian tl) turn off when I turn on my low beams

ttribe

Yeah, they didn't put the DRL's on the U.S. version until 2007-2008.

rockstar143

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Just for sanity's sake...
Park 25 feet from your garage door and see if both lights are aimed properly. If not, when you pop the hood you'll see 2 holes in the plastics that leads you to the headlight height adjustment. A phillips screwdriver to adjust and you're done...will take you less than 5 minutes and may stop the high beaming (also...can't help that it DOES look like your highbeams are on...although if it wasn't glaring into people's eyes then they wouldn't be flashing you back). Also...my oem fogs don't shine any higher than the low beam cutoff.

Good luck!

guitarplayer16

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I knew that, just pointing it out LOL

bmeyer

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All the time. That's partially why I installed HID back-up lights with an "on" switch. I can't wait to catch my first victim.

cjTL

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Yep, happens with me sometimes. My headlights are aimed properly. I felt like a jackass once because a car was coming at me and I could have SWORN their brights were on, so I gave them a quick flash. They flashed back and their brights in fact weren't on- as the car got closer, I saw that it was another 3G TL.

guitarplayer16

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Well, lots of people on here flash their high beams to greet other 3G owners...

Could be your excuse

ttribe

lol!

erdoc48

i had this problem...in the past. AckTL05 installed the Accord fog lights in the lower grilles on my car, and wired the factory fogs to be my switched DRL's. I like this setup much better, and I now have the DRL's I wanted. To me, having the factory fog lights next to the low beams is a bad design, probably the only bad design item in the TL.

ttribe

Agreed. They did this on my '91 Integra too. Can't figure out why they did it again.

hondadna4

Hahahah all the time by old people dam hoolagans!!!!

I just highbeam them back and they stop

anx1300c

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I dunno, I'd say the e-brake location wasn't exactly well thought out.

csmeance

the stock HID headlights are VERY bright and acura changed the design with the 2006 model for the projector to help cut down on the glare a little bit more. People constantly make that mistake with the TL thinking the high-beams are on when they really aren't.

I'd suggest you check the aim of the headlights and make sure that they are proper, esp if you keep a whole bunch of stuff in the trunk all the time.

GeeteeDan

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almost every night

ill check out the position of them tomorrow night

r3devi7

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Do yellow fog bulbs. Then at least it makes it clear its not the high beams.

Toddy

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lol. I always have mine on in Phoenix. Too many morons around here that don't pay attention.

GoldenShoes

well I have checked the level of them and they are where they should be, and I actually don't have anything in my trunk except a frisbee and I highly doubt that's weighing it down much lol

GoldenShoes

I was actually planning on purchasing yellow ones very soon. I know I could search this, but u wouldn't happen to know what kind of bulb it is or where to order them online would be?

r3devi7

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Pretty sure its a 9006. As far as a place to order, some one else will have to chime in, but ebay all ways works lol Just get a legit brand. Also here is a thread with a few pics of that setup; http://www.acura-tsx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=708273

tlemmon

I only get it if I go over a bump and it raises my car up. A quick flash with the real brights and things settle down real fast!

ilovemangoes

Yup happened to me a couple of times and that's with just the low-beams on. I usually just ignore them, too lazy to flash my high beams, no point in proving anything.

paperboy42190

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where are the drl's for the 04-06 TL? is it basically the foglight at 50% power?

TL_Trooper

I've gotten that too. I wondered WTF? I just keep on my way also.

erdoc48

DRL's were for the Canadian TL's only for those years. I have my fog lights at normal intensity for my DRL's.

There was previously a module to make the fog lights DRL's, but it's no longer available.

GoldenShoes

I have done this before and my fogs are definitely lower than the low-beam cutoff.

RealSteiner

HA! If someone flashes me, I let it slide usually.. But if they decide to flash me AGAIN, They get to see my brights until they pass

I'm the bright police, not you!

GoldenShoes

yea I completely agree with you on it bein a terrible design. it's kind of a funny story, but on the day I bought it I saw the fog switch on the stalk and then was very confused as to why there were no fogs in the lower grille openings. lol, anyhow the salesman showed me where they were and I felt like an idiot about it. especially after I spent the whole test drive explaining to him how VTEC works, how I'll most likely always own at least 1 Honda(or Acura but it's the same thing,lol), and how amazing they've been for me in the past.

as far as doin the accord fogs, I'd love to but I'd rather pay someone to come help me with it. not to good with electrical things.
(hint hint for those a-ziner's that live in western pa or within a few hrs drive)

Ruby

I dunno, but if I had an 04-06 I would even use the "fog" lights. Barely use them on mine, pointless feature if you ask me...

1995hoo

I only use the fog lights when weather dictates (either fog or very heavy rain that makes it hard to see the pavement markings).

I haven't had someone flash their high-beams at me in ages except to warn of a speedtrap. Back when I first got the TL I occasionally experienced people high-beaming me when I was out in more rural areas. It's never happened to me in the DC area, so I suspect it was a case of the rednecks either not being familiar with HID lights or with them just being morons. Hasn't happened in at least five years, though.

GoldenShoes

well I have pretty bad vision, and have a slight "night blindness". all lights put off a terrible glare,and when it's pitch black out it's hard for me to see things clearly. I use my fogs to keep myself, and others, safe while driving.

if you don't use them, and think they're pointless, then that's fine by me. your life, not mine.

flyromeo3

my fogs are yellow ( hid ) and have an aim a bit more outward than the OE installed set up.
Occasionally I get flashed but I dont care.
I only use them in the rain and dark mountain roads when going upstate.

ACON

I get high beamed all the time too.

coykiam

Have you seen the parking brakes on 2008 nissan altimas? its like 2 inches away from the brakes. talk about bad design...but yeah i also wish the TLs ebrakes were on the driver side.

stvtec

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I tapped the horn to greet a clean black Type-S yesterday as they were turning right and I was going by. They honked back at me like I was a jerk. They thought I was honking horn in anger.

jisleyjr

I had the same issue until i adjusted the beams down a little.

My lights were high enough that on a flat road if i switched between low and high beam i couldn't tell the difference. After adjusting them there is a difference and people stopped flashing their high beams.

94eg!

This can happen when on the highway rounding a right hand sweeping turn. The cuttoff line for the headlights makes a slight bump upwards on the right half of either headlight. This is to help illuminate road signs and pedestrian traffic at night. Only problem is that when making right handed sweeps, the oncoming traffic is directly in the path of your higher cutoff area. Until they cross past the nose of your car, the oncoming traffic may think you have your high beams on.

You may also notice that oncoming traffics headlights seem extremely bright when following left handed sweeping turns. This is because your now in the path of those cars raised cutoff extensions.

It really shouldn't have anything to do with your fog lights.

myron

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I get flashed especially now that I have zkw-r lenses, 6000k Bulbs, and switchbacks. Then I high beam them for real and they don't flash me no more. Fuck yea haha

ttribe

To be clear, the issue at hand is the physical placement of the fog lights on the front of the car on the '04-'06 US models; it's not a matter of brightness. Because the sit right next to the main headlights, many people seem to believe that 4 lights in a row = high beams are on. This isn't an unreasonable conclusion given that, for many years, many American model cars actually did set the "high beam" bulbs adjacent to the low beams, thus creating the appearance of 4 lights across the front of the car.