Cars with broken lights

Capri86 · 11-11-2012 10:35PM

Don't be afraid to use your nails boys!

Mint Sauce · 11-11-2012 10:39PM

Hate driving down a narrow country lane ar night, what looks like a motor bike coming towards you, only to discover at a few cars lenght that its a car with a busted driver side light.

Only takes a a minute or so to check all the lights a few times a week.

Yakult · 11-11-2012 10:43PM

A new trend im also noticing is the amount of cars with their rear lights not working (until they brake). Their was even a Marked garda car going around the town for weeks without rear lights. They have them sorted now but was tempted to pull them over and give them a warning a few nights.

11-11-2012 10:58PM

Yakult wrote: »

A new trend im also noticing is the amount of cars with their rear lights not working (until they brake). Their was even a Marked garda car going around the town for weeks without rear lights. They have them sorted now but was tempted to pull them over and give them a warning a few nights.

Could it be a new car, one with daylight driving lights.
These cars have the lights on at the front only at all times, they switch off and the usual lights take over when the driver turns on his (night)lights.

If it's in town (any town) some people still think you don't need full lights on and may be using their "daylight" lights instead.

Yakult · 11-11-2012 11:03PM

dolanbaker wrote: »

Could it be a new car, one with daylight driving lights.
These cars have the lights on at the front only at all times, they switch off and the usual lights take over when the driver turns on his (night)lights.

If it's in town (any town) some people still think you don't need full lights on and may be using their "daylight" lights instead.

Its a 2011 Toyota Avensis I believe, so you could be right, but the headlights are on as normal tho so thats why Im thinking they were broke

dirtyghettokid · 11-11-2012 11:31PM

only 12 in two hours?
my OH and i travel just between lusk and lissenhall at 5pm each day (10 min max journey), and we meet on avg 15 people with broken headlights. way too many people.
the mad thing is, we're pretty strict about checking our own lights on a regular basis. the OH left the house one day last winter, and a headlight blew 2 minutes down the road, and right there was a garda checkpoint -- OH was made go straight into the apple green over the road to get a new bulb.

those bright "boy racer" HID lights are fine in projector lamps.. it's when they are in non projector lamps, the light scatters and blinds people

Fixing Good · 11-11-2012 11:56PM

homeless student wrote: »

I tend to say stuff like that when called an idiot;)

I shouldn't have called you an idiot, that was wrong so apologies for that.
My point was against a relaxed approach to road users that don't care or maintain their car and by not doing so may cause an accident. Even keeping 3 car spaces back it was still very difficult to judge his breaking without lights. No chance to overtake either.

But going by the op it is difficult to understand why a high number of road users don't bother replacing bulbs. Even if they are difficult to get to and change, a mechanic would change them for just a couple of euro!

Satts · 12-11-2012 12:21AM

Most of the cars I see on the road with broken lamps are German brand cars.

Bobby183 · 12-11-2012 01:04AM

Mickey H wrote: »

Because they're lazy inconsiderate dickheads. That's why.

Or a bulb blew when they were driving

Solair · 12-11-2012 01:22AM

There should be a law that forces manufacturers to make them easier to replace!
Some cars are a total nightmare to change the bulbs on.

It really should be a 10 minute job at most, but often isn't self-explanatory or very easy at all and involves all sorts of fiddling.

ScumLord · 12-11-2012 01:29AM

Please Kill Me wrote: »

But this is it!!!! They really are. It's one of my pet hates! A bulb can cost anything from €3 to €6 depending, and takes seconds to fit,

Bull****! I drive a Citroen, the whole car has to be disassembled to change a light bulb.

TheUsual · 12-11-2012 01:39AM

Do you think in 1,000 years when humans are milling around the galaxy in spaceships, we will be still having the same threads about wonky lights ?

Capt'n Midnight · 12-11-2012 02:06AM

Solair wrote: »

It really should be a 10 minute job at most, but often isn't self-explanatory or very easy at all and involves all sorts of fiddling.

Open boot, unclip flap, reach in and press the two release clips.

Then spend 10 minutes trying to wriggle fragile glass bulb around metal projection that seems impossible :mad:

12-11-2012 05:14AM

Solair wrote: »

There should be a law that forces manufacturers to make them easier to replace!
Some cars are a total nightmare to change the bulbs on.

It really should be a 10 minute job at most, but often isn't self-explanatory or very easy at all and involves all sorts of fiddling.

According to a friend of mine, a law was passed a couple of years ago to do just that.
A bulb had to be easily replaced at the roadside without any tools.

shedweller · 12-11-2012 05:54AM

dolanbaker wrote: »

According to a friend of mine, a law was passed a couple of years ago to do just that.
A bulb had to be easily replaced at the roadside without any tools.

Methinks the manufacturers were given an amnesty to think of another way to screw us.

12-11-2012 08:56AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Open boot, unclip flap, reach in and press the two release clips.

Then spend 10 minutes trying to wriggle fragile glass bulb around metal projection that seems impossible :mad:

Someone driving towards me this morning failed to get that right as one of their lights was pointing skywards at quite a steep angle, great for aeroplane spotting.

Frank Black · 12-11-2012 09:08AM

Deleted User wrote: »

According to a friend of mine, a law was passed a couple of years ago to do just that.
A bulb had to be easily replaced at the roadside without any tools.

In my car manual when you go to the section on replacing headlight bulbs it tells you to bring the car to a registered Audi garage. How can this be acceptable? If you're driving and a light goes, in order to comply with the law you would have to pull over and wait until it's bright before driving to a garage.

Then you'd probably be charged €20, but that's another story.

gigawatt2007 · 12-11-2012 12:02PM

#firstworldproblems :rolleyes:

not yet · 12-11-2012 12:13PM

homeless student wrote: »

yes, you can get points for it now.

Clubcard points ?

Franticfrank · 12-11-2012 12:43PM

Is it actually illegal to drive missing a light bulb? You can make a lot of excuses but on Irish roads, the sheer amount of vehicles with one light is staggering. It's more than likely due to laziness.

Capt'n Midnight · 12-11-2012 01:27PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Someone driving towards me this morning failed to get that right as one of their lights was pointing skywards at quite a steep angle, great for aeroplane spotting.

Nah that belongs to the category of cars where you don't know if it's on high or low beams because it's got one of each.

So if one dipped light goes out , do you put on the main beams :pac:

AgileMyth · 12-11-2012 03:11PM

Peoples reaction to this tends to be to stick their full beams on to blind the offending driver. I know this cause my motorbike looks like a car with one light to these ***** too.

LordSutch · 17-02-2013 05:43PM

I mean its a pretty basic piece of knowledge to be able to turn on your 'Dipped Beams' when its dark, and yet, even this basic understanding is lost on many Irish drivers who deliberately have their dipped beams turned off, in preference of those driving lights/front fogs (which can't be dipped)!

Mushy · 17-02-2013 05:46PM

Cork to Dublin yesterday, saw 15-20 cars with one light working. Gob****es!

wesf · 17-02-2013 06:00PM

its a regular thing around here, it's gotten rare now to see a car with all lights working. usually one in the front and rear gone. if only i was a guard!!!

TheLastMohican · 18-02-2013 02:52AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

You drive slow.

Blinded by the lights

GlenT · 18-02-2013 03:14AM

I think it might make the other light on the car brighter if one is broken. I'm not a hundred percent on that. If it does happen to your car you should make sure the working light is on the side nearest the middle of the road. So any oncoming cars if they think you're a motorbike won't try and overtake someone if they think the bike is near the middle of the road.

dodderangler · 18-02-2013 03:22AM

It's annoying alright but you know what's worse
Assholes driving their bmws or audis with their fog lights on when there's clearly no fcuking fog and blinding the fcuk out of everyone else but don't give a **** because they spent 30grand on their car
Then there's the lads in their civics that have blue headlights blinding you but let's not stop there . Lets put YELLOW bulbs in their fog lights and look even more fcuking retarded
W4nkers

Gosub · 19-02-2013 09:56AM

Looks like the boys are reading Boards

http://crime.ie/20130218/garda-operation-light-up/

shedweller · 19-02-2013 04:40PM

Could tie this thread in with the one on Motors. I had a headlight blow after hitting a pothole recently. I replaced the bulbs with long life bulbs so they should be a little longer lasting.

Cars with broken lights

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