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loughlin1 - 3/2/12 at 07:18 PM

Hi All
Just wondering what you chaps are using for day running lights

Mark Allanson - 3/2/12 at 07:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by loughlin1
Hi All
Just wondering what you chaps are using for day running lights


I think you would get a better response if you had written..

..Just wondering what you chavs are using for day running lights

loughlin1 - 3/2/12 at 07:28 PM

oh its like that is it ooooooooppppppsssssssssss

Mark Allanson - 3/2/12 at 07:31 PM

Sorry, they are my personal hate, the only ones which don't look like christmas fairy lights on a taxi are the BMW angel eyes, the Audi ones make them look like 19 year old Saxo owner has been at work, totally cheapened a good car.

JoelP - 3/2/12 at 07:42 PM

are day running lights different to side lights?

P ? - 3/2/12 at 07:47 PM

are they different to spot lights ...

PeterV - 3/2/12 at 07:58 PM

Yep diffrent. They have to be a wide angle and non focused. They will here and have already in France killed enough bikers for the French to insist that bikers start to wear hi vis jackets. How sad is the world going to get!!!
One bad idea feeds into the next!

Davegtst - 3/2/12 at 08:04 PM

How do they kill bikers?

Mark Allanson - 3/2/12 at 08:07 PM

Guns, knives, lethal injections.......

RK - 3/2/12 at 08:08 PM

the fears are strange. why u dont want to be seen is odd. im not trying to start anything, i just like a bit of visibilty.

PeterV - 3/2/12 at 08:11 PM

How do they kill bikers?
Remember when you use to see bikers comming coz of the headlights? What happens when we all have headlights.
Who pays any attention to the beep beep beep of a truck reversing any more. Once they all do it we just switch off.
Just a matter of time before the UK HSE makes bikers wear Hi Vis jackets

SeaBass - 3/2/12 at 08:12 PM

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Originally posted by Davegtst
How do they kill bikers?


Probably because bikers like to rattle about with main beam on so you can seen them, or rather get pissed off by them. I had one trying to attach himself to my bumper at 70mph today.

I guess the DRLs mean everyone gets used to seeing lights in the daytime.

Ben_Copeland - 3/2/12 at 08:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by loughlin1
Hi All
Just wondering what you chaps are using for day running lights


We dont, we dont need them.....

Mr C - 3/2/12 at 09:02 PM

Here's mine

DRL/Sidelight link

britishtrident - 3/2/12 at 09:10 PM

quote:
Originally posted by PeterV
Yep diffrent. They have to be a wide angle and non focused. They will here and have already in France killed enough bikers for the French to insist that bikers start to wear hi vis jackets. How sad is the world going to get!!!
One bad idea feeds into the next!




Right Yeah they make bikers invisible.


However either an automated version of the old Dim-Dip system or decent 10 watt side lights would have been better.

Canada EH! - 3/2/12 at 10:04 PM

I agree with the fact they take away the bikers advantage, bikes have had DRL in Ontario Canada since 1970.

The cars got them in the 90's. With 7 type car I believe it is in our best interest to have DRL's.

Things are a little different here with the degrees of size of common road vehicles, in my area (rural) there are as many 4x4 full size pickup trucks a cars, not to mention the 7 pasenger SUV's.

Then there are the lorrys, 53ft trailers the norm, 70ft maximum overal length.

In the summer we see many US visitors driving vehicles without DRL's and in low light or inclement weather they are harder to see.

I have lived with DRL's for years and the lights on my Locost come on with the ignition switch.

RK - 3/2/12 at 11:43 PM

Mine too, as an MTO requirement (I have LED "fog" lights). Every little bit helps when you are 1.5 feet tall.

snowy2 - 4/2/12 at 06:43 AM

when i used to do motorbike training the issue of riding with lights on or not was always a hot debate, so i conducted an experiment, my group of lads on a good sunny day drove a route with dip beams on and most of us had cars pull out in front of us......we then drove the route in reverse with headlights off, no one had a car pull out in front of them. end of argument.
If lighting conditions are bad they help if lighting conditions are good the seriously hinder visibility, in the second world war they could hide large aircraft from sight of submarines by switching on lights on the front of the aircraft small things like motorbikes can hide behind a headlight......

britishtrident - 4/2/12 at 08:31 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Sorry, they are my personal hate, the only ones which don't look like christmas fairy lights on a taxi are the BMW angel eyes, the Audi ones make them look like 19 year old Saxo owner has been at work, totally cheapened a good car.


We are going through a phase when vehicle designers really just want to design Christmas lights, no thought is given to how well the lights do the job.

ash_hammond - 4/2/12 at 09:03 AM

And then there are the cars that light one fog light when they are going round corners.

RK - 4/2/12 at 01:57 PM

You are indeed a funny lot over there. I would expect there are so many more things to fret over besides whether other people have lights on or not. Just a different persepective.

[Edited on 4/2/12 by RK]