Quote from: jman on April 06, 2018, 04:13:32 PM
I am referring to stock vehicles. Today you see a lot of newer models that had an led strip as DRL's (most of the times within the head lamp), regular low beams and fog lights and I've seen these with all 3 sets ON at the same time.
What I am saying is that somehow manufacturers are getting away with it, the "no more than 2 sets of lights" law was written before LED strips started invading the auto industry and eventually the law will have to be amended. Here is an example on how the law no longer suits the current industry.
Now, with non LED strips the law does take into consideration the number of light bulbs that are ON at the same time even if they are in the same housing. I use to own a Mazda 6 that had the low beam, high beam and fog light all integrated in one head lamp, all with a light bulb for each system and all though they were in the same housing, the fogs turned off whenever the high beams came on.
Sets as I referenced is with regards to the HOUSINGS, as I though I clarified earlier. If I didn't my apologies. So, the VW or whatever the hell that ugly ass Atlas is, the headlights and grill LEDs is all one housing for legal purposes, since its once continuous LED setup. The beamer? though it has multiple types of lights in the headlight, is all in one housing again. The Mazda 6 you meantioned is the same again, its all in the same housing. The difference with the SHO is that headlights are one housing, and the lower bumper DRL is the second housing. Thus grill mounted lights would be a 3rd set of housings. The mustangs run grill mounted fogs and seperate headlight housings. Some people do eleanor style bumpers, etc. and end up with two sets of foglights (lower bumper corners and center grill) and once that happens they cannot run both sets of fogs. Because OEM foglights require parking lights to be powered when they are on (due to the way the OEMs wire them), you can only run one set of foglights plus parking lights on any car with them seperated before it could become an issue.
Now, as I said, some cops/areas, no one gives a crap at all while others are super harsh. If you roll around south florida you will see jacked up trucks with factory headlight housings and poorly converted HIDs, HID fogs in factory housings (poorly converted again), and then light bars and all sorts of extras running at once. But technically they are not allowed to do that.
As with everything there are loopholes, some of which you saw with the types of housings you pictured. Some cars run two seperate bulbs, in the same housing, for low beam vs. high beam, still to this day which is totally allowed, and the low beam light stays on for high and low operation in those setups.
TLDR; since the grill fogs would be an additional pair of housings, you legally would have issue but it would depend on municipality if anyone actually cared. Because the SHO has the bumper fogs/DRLs ALWAYS ON with any form of light, you would not be able to run additional lights. However, some areas they may not consider those lights as an actual pair due to size/output, though legally they would be considered since ford calls them 'fog' lights.