Cage Lights on or off

[tl_tub]

Like those frikkin' halogens! ARGH!

I think full beam is OK in fog, it's just high beam that's a problem. I don't think I even have fog lights on my cage.

I could be wrong, but i suspect more than 90% of head lights are halogen

[Shadows]

Apparently it isn't strictly legal to have both yellow fog lights and main beam on at the same time. Does anybody know if that is true?

One thing that I've never understood has been the definition of the "legal hours of darkness" during which you must have your headlamps on.
Half an hour AFTER sunset until half an hour BEFORE sunrise.
What where the fucktards thinking? When I first read it I thought it must have been a typo and they had the "before" and "after" around the wrong way.
Daybreak and dusk are bad enough times for visibility, with all the sunstrike and glare around, without having the additional complications surrounding the visibility of traffic with and without lights on.
A lot of the apparent "gaps" in the traffic at those times actually contain cars you may not be able to see until its too late, because they are almost indistinguishable from the background in a line of other traffic with headlamps glaring.

[avgas]

AUTO lights in the holden....its easier

[Swoop]

Kiwi drivers mate. Can't shoot them, can't herd them off to Africa.......

[Quartida]

I could be wrong, but i suspect more than 90% of head lights are halogen

Oh...I meant those ones that are funny colours at different angles, and are particularly bright at some particular angles. I thought they were halogens....what am I thinking of?

[Shadows]

Oh...I meant those ones that are funny colours at different angles, and are particularly bright at some particular angles. I thought they were halogens....what am I thinking of?

They'll be the xenon filled ones. Most new Eurotrash cars have them. I bunged one in my bike to make my headlight light stand out from other traffic a bit because it kind of flashes with fork movement and is a kind of bluey colour instead of yellow. Apparently they aren't too good for plastic lenses though.

[sunhuntin]

Yeah - it's all very well being able to see these cars at night with all the street lights on - it's the not being able to see road signs, pot holes, roads etc. coz the fuggers have cauterized your retina and you're blind for the next 20 minutes!

agreed there. also hate the ones with 2 pairs of head lights [or more!] just nuts. no need for that much light...if i can do fine with just the one, then why do you need that many more. [aimed at the big 4x4 vehicles, pos that they are!]

[raster]

You should only have 2 forward facing white lights at low beam.

I can remember when I had my mini with separate little round parkers below the headlights, the warrent testing guy wanted me to make them turn off when the headlights came on, I told him to bugger off as they are wired into the taillight circuit, after lots of grumbling I got my warrent.

In my cortina GTE I had to rewire the factory spots so they would turn off with the high beam. (fair enough) 480Watts with headlights and spots. Had to put an alternator in it as after 20 mins on the generator the battery was flat.

I hate these buggers who drive around with 4 headlights, I drive with lights on during the day in cage or bike, I'm sure it makes a difference but it's alway one or the other, headlights on, fogs off.

The WRX's I think are the worst, those so call "foglights" are huge and blinding. Spot lights no matter what the wattage is are not designed for oncomming traffic.

[Motu]

I have 4 headlamps on both full and low beam,and drive like that all the time - this is to counter those wankers on motorcycles who use high beam all the time....if they can justify being illeagal then so can I.

[raster]

I have 4 headlamps on both full and low beam,and drive like that all the time - this is to counter those wankers on motorcycles who use high beam all the time....if they can justify being illeagal then so can I.

High beam on the bike??????, wheres that switch ..... (gone off to look for it.)

[98tls]

I have 4 headlamps on both full and low beam,and drive like that all the time - this is to counter those wankers on motorcycles who use high beam all the time....if they can justify being illeagal then so can I.

So you piss the rest of us off because you have no understanding of mathematics......