Night Driving

[jennie421]

To all those that have Sonics, how are the lights at night for driving? Can you see well?

I have ordered mine, but all the test driving was done during daylight. My current car has extra bright bulbs to help with night driving.

I do both city and highway driving.


Thank you for your thoughts!

 

[laborsmith]

I found the headlights for night driving much better than I anticipated.

Laborsmith

 

[TMac]

There Great! The Road Lights Up. I Keeped Thinking That The High Beams Where On.

 

[Ab09]

No problems driving at night...
Some times I turn on the fogs if no one is on the road with me. But I rarely use the highbeams.

 

[sonic hotness]

just put in some nxe lights and wow way more light output and whiter..

 

[jennie421]

So glad to hear all of that! Thank you!

 

[Eric Smit]

As everyone else said, the lights are surprisingly great. Literally no issue driving at night. if you're alone on the road in the middle of nowhere and you are having trouble seeing, the brights would allow you to be seen from space. ;p


-Eric Smit

 

[Ab09]

As everyone else said, the lights are surprisingly great. Literally no issue driving at night. if you're alone on the road in the middle of nowhere and you are having trouble seeing, the brights would allow you to be seen from space. ;p


-Eric Smit

ET come home...

 

[slimjim550]

While I have only driven the car at night a couple of times (it stays light out rather late now) The 2 times I have driven the Sonic at night the lights seem better then some of the other cars I have driven and as long as the lens in the headlight assembly stays clear (some cars seem to cloud up worse then others) night time driving should be fine in the Sonic.

 

[baer666]

I drive in the dark every day.(I go to work at 3am) The head lights are great on this car. Do you have fog lights on your sonic? I put in my fogs a week after I got my sonic, it does infact make a difference.

 

[inm]

Drove 4 hours last night in the dark on varying highways and city roads from Richmond, Virginia to Kill Devil Hills, NC. Absolutely no problems, I could see everything fine.

 

[jennie421]

I drive in the dark every day.(I go to work at 3am) The head lights are great on this car. Do you have fog lights on your sonic? I put in my fogs a week after I got my sonic, it does infact make a difference.

No Foglights-not available with Turbo engine. I did want them though.

 

[jennie421]

Thanks Everyone, you have reassured me that it will not be an issue with the Sonic. It will be nice (and safer) to have car I can see with at night.

 

[Eric Smit]

No Foglights-not available with Turbo engine. I did want them though.

Where are you from? I'm pretty sure fog lights can be had with the 1.4T.


-Eric Smit

 

[laborsmith]

She has a 2013 on order. The same 2012 restriction applies regarding fog lamps and turbo for the none LTZ/RS.

Laborsmith

 

[Eric Smit]

She has a 2013 on order. The same 2012 restriction applies regarding fog lamps and turbo for the none LTZ/RS.

Laborsmith

Ah, thanks for the heads up.


-Eric Smit

 

[SSpeckerwood]

On my commute to work in the morning I get people flashing me all the time thinking my low beams are the high beams, of course, half the time they are on high beqm.

 

[Leverus]

I rarely drive at night, but when I do I'm impressed, especially compared to my old car's ancient dim cloudy lights. I'll also add that I love how the interior looks while driving in the dark. The blue glow from the radio and instruments looks great and the red tach needle looks quite sharp.

 

[Opticon]

The headlights are great. Unfortunately I've found that bright blue dash lighting is the worst for eye strain... So if you are on a long drive be sure to drop the brightness.

 

[CoHPhasor]

I feel that Opticon.
It's under-stated how problematic it is to have bright dash lighting while driving at night - Make me yell for a Tylenol.