Defective headlights rant

kevin65

I can't believe the amount of cars I meet in the morning driving in the dark with defective headlights. Do these assh*les realize that they are supposed to have TWO working headlights? How difficult is it to replace a bulb?

Then there's the other gobsh*tes who don't even bother to switch their lights on, do they think they are saving electricity????

And while I'm at it, I must make a special mention of the gent in the Avensis in front of me coming off the motorway in Limerick this morning. From exiting off the motorway to going through a number of busy roundabouts he didn't use his indicators once. Were you testing us to see if we could read your mind? None of us other motorists crashed into you so I guess we passed, this time...

keithsfleet

Here here

-Corkie-

kevin65 wrote: »

I can't believe the amount of cars I meet in the morning driving in the dark with defective headlights. Do these assh*les realize that they are supposed to have TWO working headlights? How difficult is it to replace a bulb?

Then there's the other gobsh*tes who don't even bother to switch their lights on, do they think they are saving electricity????

And while I'm at it, I must make a special mention of the gent in the Avensis in front of me coming off the motorway in Limerick this morning. From exiting off the motorway to going through a number of busy roundabouts he didn't use his indicators once. Were you testing us to see if we could read your mind? None of us other motorists crashed into you so I guess we passed, this time...

What about the clowns with no lights at all on???

Yawns

add to the list the morons who drive on a straight road passing several turns with an indicator on. A light blinks on your dash and makes a sound! You may miss the sound with a radio on but surely to **** you glance at your dash once even if you are driving on a straight road for 20km...

bazz26

Most Irish motorists are idiots behind the wheel, totally oblivious to what is going on around them.

That is all.

Chuck_Norris

bazz26 wrote: »

Most Irish motorists are idiots behind the wheel, totally oblivious to what is going on around them.

That is all.

What Bazz said.

/thread.

Esel

Saves peterdel.

NIMAN

The amount of cars, new as well as old, that have badly balanced headlights that blind you even when only on dipped, is shocking. I would love to see the Guards pull over these sort and tell them to get sorted.

But my real pet peev about driving this time of the year, is those idiots who meet you coming round bends in the pitch dark. Now I know they are coming, and so I take off my full beam before I get round the corner to meet them. They keep their full beam on even when they can see me, and then for a few seconds more, and dip them only when I'm blinded!

I agree that Ireland is full of awful drivers.

I approached a roundabout the other day, with 3 cars sitting at 3 different entrances, all looking at each other, waiting for each to do something. I actually approached and then slowed as I seen what the craic was, and I had a few seconds laugh to myself as I went into the roundabout and out, leaving them all sitting doing nothing.

Mugser

1. Gobsh1tes who leave their rear fog lights on long after the for has gone.
2. Gobsh1tes who when driving 30 feet in front of me who feel the need to put their rear fog lights on at the slightest whisp of fog; That little bit of fog didn't make you disappear all of a sudden.
3. Gobsh1tes who put xenon bulbs in headlights not made for them, blinding other road users.

Gillian1

Don't get me started on micra's with their fog lights on.

Doom

kevin65 wrote: »

I can't believe the amount of cars I meet in the morning driving in the dark with defective headlights. Do these assh*les realize that they are supposed to have TWO working headlights? How difficult is it to replace a bulb?

Then there's the other gobsh*tes who don't even bother to switch their lights on, do they think they are saving electricity????

And while I'm at it, I must make a special mention of the gent in the Avensis in front of me coming off the motorway in Limerick this morning. From exiting off the motorway to going through a number of busy roundabouts he didn't use his indicators once. Were you testing us to see if we could read your mind? None of us other motorists crashed into you so I guess we passed, this time...

Very hard in most modern cars, I had to take off the front bumper on a Citreon C5.... its all about keeping the main dealer/ garage in the loop

Chuck_Norris

Gillian1 wrote: »

Don't get me started on micra's with their fog lights on.

Uh oh!!!

mickdw

kevin65 wrote: »

do they think they are saving electricity????

Well they are actually:D

Captain Chaos

Last night, out for a short drive around 10pm. Stopped at T junction at traffic lights and I see a woman driving a Yaris down the main road with no lights on. Then 30 seconds later a car joins the road behind me, again a woman, this time in a Micra and she had no lights on either. I watched her go around a busy round about and up the N32 with not a single front or rear light on. Bleeding crazy.

This is why they have cheaper insurance quotes. Maybe I should start doing this to lower mine.

dieselbug

How difficult is it to replace a bulb?

Trust me, quite difficult on lots of modern cars.

Is it just my computer or is this forum reacting really slow tonight

keithsfleet

Came across a muppet today in a silver 08 mondeo (i think) on the ballyroan road in south dublin at 6.15pm. He had a blown bulb in his passenger side dipped light so to compensate he put his full/high beams on.
You, you silver haired cretin are a twat.

Damien360

keithsfleet wrote: »

Came across a muppet today in a silver 08 mondeo (i think) on the ballyroan road in south dublin at 6.15pm. He had a blown bulb in his passenger side dipped light so to compensate he put his full/high beams on.
You, you silver haired cretin are a twat.

The mondeo will "Boing" and tell him it is blown when he started it. New shape mondeo a bit more difficult to change buld than old shape (brilliant design) due to headlight catching the grill as it comes out but it ain't that hard. Whole assembly comes out in your hand.

Turtle-TM

/RANT I get seriously, SERIOUSLY pissed with people who drive with their fog lights on, the hint of when to use them is in the name...FOG lights, if there's no fog, there's no need for them. And when you meet someone on a dark country road with their side lamps on, and fog lights you really have to wonder what's gone wrong in some people heads.

As for changing bulbs, yes, in most modern cars its a pain, I have to pay €75 labour to have mine changed on the A8, but there's no excuse not to, the car bings every time and shows which light is out, but even my 66 year old mother who's only just passed her driving test has the common sense to check her front lights in the reflection of the window in front of the drive way to see all her lights are working.

My thinking on it is 90% of the general public are complete idiots, when they get into their car, that figure rises /RANT

Chuck_Norris

Turtle-TM wrote: »

/RANT I get seriously, SERIOUSLY pissed with people who drive with their fog lights on, the hint of when to use them is in the name...FOG lights, if there's no fog, there's no need for them. And when you meet someone on a dark country road with their side lamps on, and fog lights you really have to wonder what's gone wrong in some people heads.

As for changing bulbs, yes, in most modern cars its a pain, I have to pay €75 labour to have mine changed on the A8, but there's no excuse not to, the car bings every time and shows which light is out, but even my 66 year old mother who's only just passed her driving test has the common sense to check her front lights in the reflection of the window in front of the drive way to see all her lights are working.

My thinking on it is 90% of the general public are complete idiots, when they get into their car, that figure rises /RANT

Whoopsie!!!

Turtle-TM

Chuck_Norris wrote: »

Whoopsie!!!

Chuck_Norris

Turtle-TM wrote: »

Chuck_Norris wrote: »

Whoopsie!!!

Ranting about the dreaded f word is a big no- no.

Turtle-TM

Chuck_Norris wrote: »

Ranting about the dreaded f word is a big no- no.

I know I know....I've had that rant bottled up for a few weeks though....it's getting to that time of year again, longer evenings...darker roads...

sean1141

NIMAN wrote: »

But my real pet peev about driving this time of the year, is those idiots who meet you coming round bends in the pitch dark. Now I know they are coming, and so I take off my full beam before I get round the corner to meet them. They keep their full beam on even when they can see me, and then for a few seconds more, and dip them only when I'm blinded!

I hate when people do this. I hate coming around a bend with my full lights on to find someone who dipped a 100m back and I could not see there lights to know they were approaching, knowing in the second or two it takes me to react that I'm blinding them.

I usually keep my heads on until the car is just about to come into sight when I see them coming with full lights on, and flick off my heads before they come fully around the corner hoping they do the same.

Esel

sean1141 wrote: »

I hate coming around a bend with my full lights on to find someone who dipped a 100m back and I could not see there lights to know they were approaching, knowing in the second or two it takes me to react that I'm blinding them.

So, you're legally blind then?

shar01

I wear glasses so I bought a pair of yellow tinted overglasses last winter. Highly recommend them. Reduces the glare from badly aligned headlights.

Zen moment alert... I may not be able to change the World but at least I can change my world :P

TestTransmission

Gillian1 wrote: »

Don't get me started on micra's with their fog lights on.

Turtle-TM wrote: »

I know I know....I've had that rant bottled up for a few weeks though....it's getting to that time of year again, longer evenings...darker roads...

Don't go there please.

shar01

Chuck_Norris wrote: »

Ranting about the dreaded f word is a big no- no.

Given the time of year and that foggy mornings are more prevalent, we should have a f-light awareness week hour on Boards.

That way we can have a bit of a rant and maybe, just maybe, educate a few people in the correct use of f-lights...

Please don't ban me.

Abi

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Last night, out for a short drive around 10pm. Stopped at T junction at traffic lights and I see a woman driving a Yaris down the main road with no lights on. Then 30 seconds later a car joins the road behind me, again a woman, this time in a Micra and she had no lights on either. I watched her go around a busy round about and up the N32 with not a single front or rear light on. Bleeding crazy.

This is why they have cheaper insurance quotes. Maybe I should start doing this to lower mine.

Stupidity comes in two genders, trust me.

ednwireland

i had to put a new bulb in my other halfs car (she'd been driving for 2 weeks like that) i mean it even puts a message on the dash telling you. and its easy to get to - lucky i had a spare in my car ( thats my last one must go and get another half dozen spares) ffs

sebastianlieken

People driving with parking lights on. *sigh* the hint is in the name people. parking lights.

renofan

Mugser wrote: »

1. Gobsh1tes who leave their rear fog lights on long after the for has gone.
2. Gobsh1tes who when driving 30 feet in front of me who feel the need to put their rear fog lights on at the slightest whisp of fog; That little bit of fog didn't make you disappear all of a sudden.
3. Gobsh1tes who put xenon bulbs in headlights not made for them, blinding other road users.

I honestly think rear fogs should be banned in this country as people are too bloody stupid to use them correctly. Leaving rear fogs on and not dipping headlights are probably the only two things that would get my blood boiling.

sean1141

Esel wrote: »

So, you're legally blind then?

No.

inforfun

Every single morning i am behind the same idiot in his Micra that is so ****ed up that all his lights on the back are on. Rear lights, brake lights (including the 3rd one) and fogs, doing 60 km/h where 80 is permitted in the middle lane of a 3 lane stretch of the road.
Pass him, left or right i dont give a **** anymore, and i get his front fogs in my mirror.

It should be legal to run ***** like that of the road.

Viper_JB

Passed by 4 cars in a row yesterday, I found it to be a good summary of Irish motorist in the dark - first one had only one head light working so decided to compensate by putting his high beams and fog lights on. The next two cars had fog lights on again...and the last one had no lights on at all - actually had a double take when I seen him. Think it's just that time of year when the Irish motorist has to learn to drive in the dark again....

kevin65

There needs to be proper enforcement. People don't give a sh*t because they don't fear getting pulled by the guards for their transgressions.

rameire

they should use the fines that are available there to enforce the law.

1st offence – fine not exceeding €1,000
2nd offence – fine not exceeding €2,000
3rd or subsequent within 12 consecutive months – fine not exceeding €2,500 and/or imprisonment not exceeding 3 months

Boskowski

By the way...what's with this thing about driving with your parking lights on in twilight? As if it's not quite dark enough yet for full lights and they're trying to be spot on or something...
Is the name not a clue in itself?

NIMAN

sean1141 wrote: »

I hate when people do this. I hate coming around a bend with my full lights on to find someone who dipped a 100m back and I could not see there lights to know they were approaching, knowing in the second or two it takes me to react that I'm blinding them.

I usually keep my heads on until the car is just about to come into sight when I see them coming with full lights on, and flick off my heads before they come fully around the corner hoping they do the same.

I dip just before I come into their view, not 100m back.

And the sort of roads I'm talking about are rural, unlit roads, so you know there is someone coming the other way a LONG time before you see them due to the pitch darkness.