Car Headlights

LandyAndy

Loanranger wrote: »

Me too. I always put my lights on main beam, just to let them know they're dazzling me with their four lights.

The bluey looking headlights are xenon lights.

To Col777, I don't like driving at night and it's age related. The eyes are less able to cope. So I don't do it anymore, well not much anyway! Are you an older person? If not, go see the optician.

Driving at night, particularly in rain, became very difficult for me with a 'halo effect' around every point of light. The cause - cataract in my right eye. Post operation my night driving vision was back to normal.

Stephen_Leak

vikingaero wrote: »

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That said my pet peeve at the moment is the muppets who still have their fog lights on from the foggy weather a few days ago.

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Why worry? They'll switch them off the next time visibility gets below 100 metres. :mad:

PS. Headlight dip should be manually adjusted with the electric adjusters (if fitted) on the highest/longest setting. Then, if fully loaded at the rear, towing, etc. you can electrically adjust the beam downwards/shorter to compensate.

Strider590

Forget all of the above.....

The WORST offenders are those driving about in darkness, fog, snow or rain.

WITH NO LIGHTS ON!!!

OR EVEN MORE ANNOYING! PARKING LIGHTS!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Col7777

LandyAndy wrote: »

To Col777, I don't like driving at night and it's age related. The eyes are less able to cope. So I don't do it anymore, well not much anyway! Are you an older person? If not, go see the optician.

Yes I got a telegram off the Queen 3 years ago, I'm 103.

Seriously I am on the older side I'm 62 and I did get my eyes checked not long ago, but that is a good point.

Mark_Hewitt

See it all the time on the A1(M)/M1 in the morning, someone driving a fog coloured car, in thick fog, with no lights at all!

I'm not sure about the position of the rear fog light on my Fiesta either, down on the bumper level with the middle of the right rear wheel.

mcjordi

Mark- if youve got a fiesta come on over to ukfiestanetwork.co.uk we are a group of fiesta enthuiasts..

but yeah misaligned lights do my head in .

Mark_Hewitt

mcjordi wrote: »

Mark- if youve got a fiesta come on over to ukfiestanetwork.co.uk we are a group of fiesta enthuiasts..
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Already there my friend!

Lum

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

I'm not sure about the position of the rear fog light on my Fiesta either, down on the bumper level with the middle of the right rear wheel.

The perfect place for it. Fog usually tends to sit higher up, and even in thick fog there there will usually be a foot or so of comparatively clear air just above the road surface, therefore the fog light is more likely to be seen.

This is also why proper* fog lights are mounted low on the front bumpers, to shine under the fog and illuminate the road when the normal lights are too high and end up just illuminating the fog creating a brighter patch of opaque white.

*The exception to this being yellow ones which supposedly cut through the fog better. I have these on my car, they use the same bulb as my main beams but with a wider spread. I don't know how this actually works but it does, so in thick fog, or snow I tend to drive around on sidelights with the yellow fogs on.

The worst kind of foglights are white ones that are high up, they serve no purpose other than to annoy other people and make you look like an anchor.


All that said, the biggest offender around my way seems to be people driving around with their main beams on 24/7. This isn't even boy racer or sales rep types, it's normal-looking people in little Euro hatchbacks like Golfs and Fiestas.

Mark_Hewitt

You make a good point! If you're close enough to need high up lights then you'll be able to see the high mounted rear lights anyway!

optimus_primera

frothey wrote: »

Full beam me when I've got my fogs on and I'll zap you with my mis-aligned HID's too :rotfl:

One of the problems with not having an MOT for 3 years - new cars can have mis-aligned lights and it doesn't get picked up for 3 years.......

I have often thought that as well ........ and when i had my Land Rover i used to give em a combined flash of nigh on 500w of fullbeam and spotlights .......