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Who uses side lights?

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  • #52
    Lex Luthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭Lex Luthor


    Gwynston wrote: »
    Lex, fair enough if you use side lights all the time and you're on the ball enough to switch on the dipped mains as soon as visibility is reduced (like you said you tend to do in winter).
    Its not just a case of being visible from the front but also from the rear and that is why I always have the parking lights on during summer time.
    Once the clocks go back its dipped lights all the time no matter what time of day


    eoin_s wrote: »
    My Alfa 156 was handy for this, because I could just leave the dipped lights on the whole time. When the engine was turned off (or key removed - can't remember which), both the dipped and side lights would turn off automatically, without any warning noises. This meant I never had to turn the lights on or off.

    Have to agree Eoin. I never have to think about my lights being on or not. Just by leaving the switch in teh parking or dipped position depending on time of year I always know my lights are on.

    However, every time I drive my wifes car I am always getting out and leaving the lights on and wondering what the buzzer going off is for.:rolleyes:


  • #53
    Hotwheels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Hotwheels


    Yup same thing, when I collected the 159 I turned on the lights and they are never off, cept when the car is switched off...its handy not having to worry about switching them off..
    Met plenty this morning with their candles lit, IMO a torch would be better :D

    Lex Luthor wrote: »
    Its not just a case of being visible from the front but also from the rear and that is why I always have the parking lights on during summer time.
    Once the clocks go back its dipped lights all the time no matter what time of day





    Have to agree Eoin. I never have to think about my lights being on or not. Just by leaving the switch in teh parking or dipped position depending on time of year I always know my lights are on.

    However, every time I drive my wifes car I am always getting out and leaving the lights on and wondering what the buzzer going off is for.:rolleyes:


  • #54
    Andrewf20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    -Muppets with two blown dipped headlight bulbs but too tight/stupid to replace them so they drive along on a combination of sidelights, mainbeams and front fogs

    Very common. It nags me if I have a bulb blown, so I keep a spare in the glovebox. And while we are on the subject, what a rip off Halfords are. They wanted 10 euro for a bulb and I got one in the local motor factors for 3.50.


  • #55
    pclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,941 ✭✭✭pclancy


    Totally agree with daytime dip lights on, sidelights are for parking in a dangerous plcae and that only. If you're driiving your dips should be on, stopped they should be off and just parking lights or parking lights and hazards.

    You have to remember that most people wouldnt bother reading the manual for their car or know what the difference is between those lights, they might turn em on a notch during the day for rain/mist/fog but only realise they dont have their dips on when it gets really ddark and they cant see anything! Its driver ignorance, they're never taught and they never learn themselves.

    Plus some do genuinly think headlights "drain the battery" or waste the buld life if they're on during the day.


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