New lights trend

kiddums

Ove the last few days I've seen 3 or 4 cars with their hazzard lights hooked up to their lights, so the hazzards are on constant, not flashing.

The one this morning took the biscuit tho, hazzards on along with lights, everything wenh off when he braked and when he indicated all the lights except the indicator went off.
It was an ESB van too. Not a great advertisement.

Do these people not notice?
Or are they just too ignorant to get it fixed?

Einstein

They aint gonna know unless people tell 'em...

andyseadog

sounds more like an earthing problem with the lights or something similar rather than people intentionally wiring their hazards to their main beams, where would the advantage be in that?

you see a lot in mid-late 90's renaults and fiats with similar issues.

kiddums

Einstein wrote: »

They aint gonna know unless people tell 'em...

How do you tell someone who is 3 or 4 cars in front of you for a few minutes of your journey?

andyseadog wrote: »

sounds more like an earthing problem with the lights or something similar rather than people intentionally wiring their hazards to their main beams, where would the advantage be in that?



you see a lot in mid-late 90's renaults and fiats with similar issues.

I figured it would be something like that. But How can you not notice/ get something done about it ASAP?

andyseadog

kiddums wrote: »

I figured it would be something like that. But How can you not notice/ get something done about it ASAP?

well any motorist that cares for their car will notice when they next check their bulbs :rolleyes:

but thats unlikely to ever happen in anything other than a parallel universe.

hopefully the n.c.t./ d.o.e. inspector points it out to them

Gumbo

kiddums wrote: »

I figured it would be something like that. But How can you not notice/ get something done about it ASAP?

because when your driving the car, you cant see what the lights look like coming towards you.

Einstein

kiddums wrote: »

How do you tell someone who is 3 or 4 cars in front of you for a few minutes of your journey?

I'm not saying it has to be you that tells em...but a few years ago someone had to tell me that my break lights were stuck on...No real way for me to have known that until it was pointed out to me.
Granted, if I wasn't a young, snotty nosed know it all, I could have realised this myself if I had a routine of checking my lights from time to time.

On the flip side, someone that does check their lights, won't be able to see that all lights are coming on when it only happens if they hit their brakes etc

inforfun

I think the new trend is to have just anything wrong with your lights.
Either have the fog lights on, only have 1 headlight, whatever.
Doesn't really matter what, as long as there is something wrong.

Del2005

Einstein wrote: »

On the flip side, someone that does check their lights, won't be able to see that all lights are coming on when it only happens if they hit their brakes etc

When I check my lights I use other vehicles if there are no windows available. I check which lights are working and can see what happens when I press my brake and move the indicator switch no problem.

E39MSport

Bimmers will throw on a flasher on one side if a xenon has snuffed it.

Cookie_Monster

does the brake light / reverse light flash too when they indicate

kiddums

I don't see how you can't tell that the bright orange lights on your car are on constantly. Is it not possible to see a reflection of them in traffic or see the glow of them at night? I can see the glow of my indicator at night, I think I would notice it on all the time.

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

does the brake light / reverse light flash too when they indicate

Nah but I wouldn't have been suprised. The brake lights might come on with the reverse gear tho.:pac:

Viper_JB

andyseadog wrote: »

sounds more like an earthing problem with the lights or something similar rather than people intentionally wiring their hazards to their main beams, where would the advantage be in that?

you see a lot in mid-late 90's renaults and fiats with similar issues.

Seen this yesterday on a 99 fiat punto funny enough, any time she was breaking she would also indicate right and anytime the right indicator was on it was like a light show on the back of the car, brake light was flashing along with the reverse light and the inidcator went on solid..good old Itilian electrics.

si_guru

inforfun wrote: »

I think the new trend is to have just anything wrong with your lights.
Either have the fog lights on, only have 1 headlight, whatever.
Doesn't really matter what, as long as there is something wrong.

I was thinking I was OCD for being the only person to spot that!

..white indicators. Did you see the ORANGE bulb you took out????