Turn on your lights

Tallon

Right guys, it's officially that time of the year again.

Can you please put on your lights before you leave home.

Not only are the mornings dark, but the ice / frost means that some people are too lazy to wait for their windows to de-ice and so are limiting their view already.

It doesn't cost anything extra to flick that switch and you really are preventing an accident



Please turn on your lights !



Cheers

Captain Commie

Tallon wrote: »

Right guys, it's officially that time of the year again.

Can you please put on your lights before you leave home.

Not only are the mornings dark, but the ice / frost means that some people are too lazy to wait for their windows to de-ice and so are limiting their view already.

It doesn't cost anything extra to flick that switch and you really are preventing an accident



Please turn on your lights !



Cheers

I echo that, was driving up the M50 thismorn at about 7:40, still pretty dark and could hardly see a guy in the lane beside me cause he didnt have lights on.

TURN ON THE LIGHTS PEOPLE

testicle

OK Gay.

Tallon

testicle wrote: »

OK Gay.

Huh?

Perhaps amending the title to "Thick cnuts, turn on your lights"

cormie

It should be always that time of year

Quazzie

Tallon wrote: »

Huh?

I think he's comparing you to Gay Byrne of the RSA rather than being a homosex.

Jaych1000

Agree with OP!

Tallon

Quazzie wrote: »

I think he's comparing you to Gay Byrne of the RSA rather than being a homosex.

Oh thank god, for a minute I thought I was into men... phew

here.from.day.1

First icy morning there.. let the games begin! :rolleyes:

CR 7

Met a blue audi a4(02-ish) going onto the n18 when i was coming off it, at about 8 last night, and he had full lights on, he dimmed them immediately when i flashed him, leaving only parking lights on. There's no way he didn't notice both bulbs were blown, and the road was busy enough that he wouldn't have been able to have the lights on for most of the journey.

On another note, some people take it to the other extreme, some mornings when it's still been a bit dark, i've seen lots of people with all foglights on, front and rear, or if there's no front ones, just the rear. And this was with no fog at all anywhere.

So maybe the message should be: 'Average Motorist - Learn what lights are, and how to use them.'

Atomic Pineapple

testicle wrote: »

OK Gay.

Quazzie wrote: »

I think he's comparing you to Gay Byrne of the RSA rather than being a homosex.

Gay Byrne doesn't have the capability to provide drivers with advice/information that actually makes sense. So the comparison with Tallon is incorrect.

I always have my lights on too.

salamander27

And......

Sidelights on their own are useless in the fog!

Might as well burn a few candles on the dashboard as you'll see the car before you see those dim little light bulbs/LEDs.

Shane732

salamander27 wrote: »

And......

Sidelights on their own are useless in the fog!

Might as well burn a few candles on the dashboard as you'll see the car before you see those dim little light bulbs/LEDs.

That's just playing with fire!

ronaneire

Not only should people turn on their lights.
But make sure that all lights are working correctly.
Gets right up me the amount of cars on the road with lights not working correctly.

CiniO

Only if I can add something.

Let it be the daytime running lights (DRL) or dipped headlights.
Fog lights are no good, as they might dazzle other drivers and besides are not legel when there's no fog.
Sidelights (knows also as parking lights) are not good enough. From couple hundred meters you can't see that lights at all. Turining only sidelights is just wasting the electricity.

mystiq

Tallon wrote: »

Please turn on your lights !

lights on increases fuel consumption (as every electronical piece u run in your car) + bulbs have limited life time


:P

jock101

If you do turn them on, please adjust the beams down!:eek:

caseyann

jock101 wrote: »

If you do turn them on, please adjust the beams down!:eek:

And turn your damn headlights down when you are approaching oncoming traffic :mad:

bazzachazza

Think of it this way.

If you can't or can only barely see other car's that don't have their light's on then its time you turned yours on.

I got met by one of those morons with only sidelights working so he had his full beams on. He dipped his lights for one second to show he only had sides working before putting his full beams back on. So I politely replied with my two xenons and two halogens(never understood why Audi don't link these as one like other car companies). I hope he learned his lessons and spent the few quid on bulbs. I imagine he got the exact same treatment of every driver he met. One bulb is forgivable if you intend to fix it that day. But come on how long has he been driving on one bulb for the second to go.

vibe666

i've had that too, on the N3 between dunshaughlin & navan one night some clown was weaving all over the road and kept turning his lights off. turned out all he had was one single main beam and everything else was out on the front so every time he had to turn off his one light, he had to slow right down as he couldn't see anything and was causing traffic to build up behind him.

for lights when there's no fog bugs me too. illegal, totally unnecessary and dazzling to oncoming drivers.

i often thought that if i ever was given the power to stop time, it would be almost useless as far as saving the world goes as i'd spend all my nights driving round and stopping time so i could run over to other cars with their fog lights on and smash them in with a hammer before hopping back in my car and starting time again.

you know, i've been in ireland 10 years now and living in navan for almost 5 of those years and i honestly don't think i've ever actually seen proper fog since i've been here, despite doing a lot of very early mornings for work around 6-7am.

i've seen plenty of mist, but only ever once or twice have i seen anything that could actually be classed as thick enough to be classed as proper fog.

i know that technically speaking, for driving purposes anything less than 200m visibility is classed as fog, but honestly, if you can see the car (a safe distance) in front of you without it having a rear foglight on, then it's not 'proper' fog.

i remember coming home one day from a boot fare in england in a very old fire engine that my stepdad had just bought (don't ask me why, he was just odd and a big kid) and we got stuck in thick fog and there were times when we couldn't even see the road right in front of us and had to get out and we had to take it in turns to walk in front of it with a torch (which was next to useless too).

i remember other times too growing up in england when you literally couldn't see anything more than 10 feet in front of you and people just stayed out of it.

corktina

i thought discussing f*g lights was banned on here....:D