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Lights too bright?
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Avert your eyes to the left hand kerb momentarily. That will sort it for you. If the car in front has left his fog lights on, flash him once.0
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Not everyone knows about the little dial that controls the headlight dipping angle, and the settings you need to put in aren't necessarily intuitive - my car's handbook has a little table saying which setting to use for a particular loading, but it's not as simple as 'select the number that corresponds to the number of passengers you have'.0
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The most annoying thing about painfully bright dipped headlights is they are unnecessary because in towns and cities there are normally street lights where most of the time you could drive without lights. The lights on the car only being needed so others can see you.
A few years ago I had a car with dim dip headlights which, when the engine was running, the sidelights had the dipped headlight bulb powered to 20% of its normal power. In a city this is all that was needed.0 -
Not everyone knows about the little dial that controls the headlight dipping angle, and the settings you need to put in aren't necessarily intuitive - my car's handbook has a little table saying which setting to use for a particular loading, but it's not as simple as 'select the number that corresponds to the number of passengers you have'.
:rotfl:Tell me about it. I had my Mazda2 nearly a year before I realised that the dipped beams were so awful because they were set at the lowest setting.:o
At least I found the wheel before I took it back to the dealer to complain.:eek:You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose.0 -
Strider590 wrote: »Are the tail lights on?
With DRLs the tail lights will be off.
That explains the car I saw on the way home last week, night time so all had lights on and his rears weren't on though brakes worked, I thought it was odd a 66 plate would have failed lights so quick, dumb driving just on DRL though. I have a Mazda 3 and the DRL don't come on when the auto lights are on so not so much of an issue of mistakenly running only on the DRLs. I probably should have stopped and knocked on his window (I was cycling) and told him though!Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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I have a Mazda 3 and the DRL don't come on when the auto lights are on so not so much of an issue of mistakenly running only on the DRLs.
I may have misunderstood you how you phrased that bit about DRLs not coming ON - that's doesn't sound very 'auto'.
Do you have an 'off' setting where there are no lights at all?
My car doesn't allow me to select not having some front lights showing.
Your Mazda must be an older model, if it's possible to drive it without DRLs or other lights being on.
Or do you mean that when the 'auto' kicks in the DRLs go OFF?
I suspect that newer models will have lighting similar to mine.
If I select 'auto' (BMW F30) then I have DRLs during normal daylight, but as soon as light level falls, during the day if the sky is heavily overcast, the dip beams come on along with the tail lights and the DRLs go off.
Even if I select 'off' then I have DRLs as soon as the engine starts up.
If the headlights are on I can then further select 'adaptive' which means that main beam is on whenever there are no street lights and there is not a car in front or approaching on the other side of the road.
My lights are also self-levelling so there is no little thumb-wheel or dial to alter.
I suspect that there are many people (present company excepted, of course) who never read the handbook and haven't a clue what permutations they have available to them.0 -
I may have misunderstood you how you phrased that bit about DRLs not coming ON - that's doesn't sound very 'auto'.
Do you have an 'off' setting where there are no lights at all?
My car doesn't allow me to select not having some front lights showing.
Your Mazda must be an older model, if it's possible to drive it without DRLs or other lights being on.
Or do you mean that when the 'auto' kicks in the DRLs go OFF?
I suspect that newer models will have lighting similar to mine.
If I select 'auto' (BMW F30) then I have DRLs during normal daylight, but as soon as light level falls, during the day if the sky is heavily overcast, the dip beams come on along with the tail lights and the DRLs go off.
Even if I select 'off' then I have DRLs as soon as the engine starts up.
If the headlights are on I can then further select 'adaptive' which means that main beam is on whenever there are no street lights and there is not a car in front or approaching on the other side of the road.
My lights are also self-levelling so there is no little thumb-wheel or dial to alter.
I suspect that there are many people (present company excepted, of course) who never read the handbook and haven't a clue what permutations they have available to them.
The 64 plate 3 has DRL that come on when you release the handbrake, I don't believe you can turn them off, however, when the main lights are on the DRL don't come on that I can see - so you always have some lights on but the auto setting overrules the DRL so when it's dark enough for the main lights to come they do.Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Not everyone knows about the little dial that controls the headlight dipping angle, and the settings you need to put in aren't necessarily intuitive - my car's handbook has a little table saying which setting to use for a particular loading, but it's not as simple as 'select the number that corresponds to the number of passengers you have'.
Also, a lot of higher end cars have self levelling headlights, these don't have the manual adjustment wheel!0 -
Also, a lot of higher end cars have self levelling headlights, these don't have the manual adjustment wheel!
I don't believe mine is "high end" but it does have self adjusting lights - you can see the beam move left and right as you turn, might be coming to cheaper models as the technology has got cheaper.Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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