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GazHyde

GazHyde

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  1. Fog lights are for when it's foggy enough to require using them. If you use them at any other time you are stupid. Really stupid.
  2. Dip your main beam before you approach another car. Also wait till you have passed them before you put them back on again. It's not difficult. Really, it's not.
  3. Audi Titties have stupid bright brake LEDs and it doesn't help the third brake LEDs span the whole boot lid. Absolutely ridiculous trying to follow one down a dark country lane. Bordering on dangerous.
'nuff said. I'd change my name to Grumpy, but someone already has it :mad:
 
Roll on summer :)
 
& why do people while at traffic lights keep there foot on the brakePedal
blinding us behind them never heard of a hand brakes
STUPIDO
 
Absolutely, I followed a TT out of town on Monday evening with its full width LED stop light luckily it was only for 1 mile to the roundabout then he turned left away from me. I know an idiot who constantly drives with his front fog lights illuminated (I was under the impression that this is now against the law?) it is also amazing how many drivers enter a street lit area still on main beam.

Tony.
 
Has anybody recently taken the advanced driving test?:whistle:
 
GazHyde said:
  1. Fog lights are for when it's foggy enough to require using them. If you use them at any other time you are stupid. Really stupid.
  2. Dip your main beam before you approach another car. Also wait till you have passed them before you put them back on again. It's not difficult. Really, it's not.
  3. Audi Titties have stupid bright brake LEDs and it doesn't help the third brake LEDs span the whole boot lid. Absolutely ridiculous trying to follow one down a dark country lane. Bordering on dangerous.
'nuff said. I'd change my name to Grumpy, but someone already has it :mad:
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Well you've opened a right can if worms up here and no you can't have my name :mad: and yes I totally agree with everything you've just said! :mad:
 
katkwak said:
& why do people while at traffic lights keep there foot on the brakePedal
blinding us behind them never heard of a hand brakes
STUPIDO
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Well couple of reasons, if its an automatic rather than go into neutral or park - and if it has start/stop tech on board. I'm finding this out as the hire car I have atm has this - I've turned it off its a pain.

I hate folks sitting on the brake, especially when I was in the lotus, as brake lights were at eye height :(

Agreed about fog lights and main beam, its not rocket science, just takes a little thought and consideration tbh.
 
When I took my driving test more years ago than I care to remember fog lights or lights which were below the front bumper were only supposed to be used with dipped headlights and only in thick fog or falling snow I think their use at any other time is an offence and enough said on resting on the brakes when stationary.
Merry Christmas and Happy new year to all :hohoho:
 
yes agree, but theres lots that dont have any lights on at all when its foggy which is worse
 
GazHyde said:
Fog lights are for when it's foggy enough to require using them. If you use them at any other time you are stupid. Really stupid.
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You get a major fine over here for doing that if the police see you.....
 
Agree wit @Toby on our auto with stop/start as soon as you take your foot off the brake or put it into park the engine fires up again so pointless having stop/start. Blame me cos mine stays in D.

Fog lights annoy, especially rears when it isn't, and auto main beam is brilliant it reacts quicker than I do usually.
 
More importantly - what about those who travel at night with one headlight / taillight only - particularly on country roads - including the heavy goods vehicles that straddle the centreline at speed - particularly on bends - frightening to say the least!
 
I used to stick my auto boxes into N when at the lights or whatever, as I was told its not good for the gear box to leave it in D and stand on the foot break.
 
We don't really have thick enough fog to warrant using the rear fog light, I rarely use mine, when I do I am carefull to switch it off as soon as I get in traffic. When I started driving cars were not equipped with them, we seemed to have many more foggy days and nights then, sometimes the fog was so thick you had to drive with your head out of the side window so you could see the white lines in the middle of the road.

Mike
 
And why don't people use their indicators :p
 
Shows you are all getting old=))

Worse is overtaking lane hoggers, now that really pisses me off, I had one yesterday 4 x 4 (as I do nearly every day) in the outside lane of a dual carriage way doing 60mph 2 miles up the road the road splits to single carriageway with the right lane becoming one road and the left lane becoming a second, this numpty because he wanted to take the right lane stayed in the right lane holding traffic up, for over two miles before it, and when I undertook him (I wanted the left lane) flashed his lights at me Grrrr:mad:.
 
Not that I use them,
but I do not know how anyone can complain about front fog lights? other than "omg its against the law." "only me" Harry Enfield springs to mind,
get over it, get a life, or write in to points of view, all you old saddo's.... =))

They are designed with a low cut off beam to light up the kerb and white lines in the middle of the road, and as anyone knows that has driven in fog, is that the worst thing you can have is a light shining high up, which then reflects back at the driver. So how can they possibly dazzle oncoming or vehicles in front?

Now they may dazzle from a wet road which technically if its chucking it down could be construed as reduced visibility on the heaviest of downpours, so is that legal then??

I hear no one complaining of DRLs which are brighter than front fog lights. or even the new specification that seems to allow new cars to use one foglight when turning. If they dazzle why is this then allowed? and where are all your complaints about them? well? come on then moaners? :poke:


4 lights are brighter than two, which I appreciate that all you old gits with failing and sensitive eyesight will complain that it dazzles.

My dad used to put a sunvisor flap down at night for oncoming lights and wear night driving glasses, maybe time is telling you that your old failing eyesight is now so bad that you should give up driving on the roads because you cant handle a couple of lights in your view....front, rear, brake or whatever.


If you really have to complain, go on about the middle lane hoggers that congest motorways, and make our taxes pay for the hard shoulder to be modified so at least there are two lanes on the inside that we can get past them on, or the people at traffic lights that if you are six cars back by the time you get to move the lights have gone red again and you just end up moving forward filling up the gap left by everyone who thinks oh I will now prepare to go now that the car in front has moved 20 yards further forward, :bashhead:

OMG.. I am starting to sound like you lot.....

So now I just sit back and await replies..... wheres my popcorn? :popcorn:
 
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