Friday Night Rants?

[dangerous]

If they are Daytime Driving Lights then I'd have thought those lights would go off when the vehicle's headlights turn on. If they don't then why not? The cynic in me would suggest sloppy WoF checking...

yes they should turn off when the head lights are turned on... but no they dont need to be

[Luckylegs]

SAME... well not the delicate bit but fuck yes re the eyes... dont have high beam issues here BUT those arseholes that drive at night with there "day time" lights on... some might call them fog lights but they aint...

Fuck me ya dont need 4 head lights on when ya aiming at oncoming traffic now how many of you lot drive at night with them on... used to think it was a WOOOHOOO look at me I got extra light... but now I just think they are cocks and dont actually relise it...

Ah... rural waikato. The type of fog what kills french people. Yep i use em, and use the thingamywhatsit knob to adjust ths normail headlighf beam downwards. As much low light as i can get and im happy. Oooh, on really bad days i even put my led rear fog tail light on.

So there!

[Grumph]

SAME... well not the delicate bit but fuck yes re the eyes... dont have high beam issues here BUT those arseholes that drive at night with there "day time" lights on... some might call them fog lights but they aint...

Fuck me ya dont need 4 head lights on when ya aiming at oncoming traffic now how many of you lot drive at night with them on... used to think it was a WOOOHOOO look at me I got extra light... but now I just think they are cocks and dont actually relise it...

Yes, they're cocks...And on our straight flat canty roads I have high beam issues. You don't D cos you drive a high wheeled juggernaut where you sit a mile in the air...I drive an oldish, fairly low car and even dipped beam from most utes/suv's is too bloody high for comfort.

Having watched the WOF process, it looks like the dip regs merely require a certain angle of dip from horizontal. IMO it should be a measurement of where the top of the beam strikes the road at a certain distance in front. This should negate the effect of high placed lights....

And as for people towing at night or carrying a heavy load in the back......

[Moi]

yes they should turn off when the head lights are turned on... but no they dont need to be

So who makes up the rules? I'm guessing NZTA? If the lights are daytime running lights then at night they should be off! End of statement.

Ah... rural waikato. The type of fog what kills french people. Yep i use em, and use the thingamywhatsit knob to adjust ths normail headlighf beam downwards. As much low light as i can get and im happy. Oooh, on really bad days i even put my led rear fog tail light on.

So there!

If you can adjust your headlight beams down, can you also adjust them up? In the olden days cars had fog lights that only came on with the side marker lights and never with headlights - thinking of the Mitsi Sigma range with built-in fog lights. Nowadays seems a little laissez faire just what and how you light the road ahead and, consequently, blind on-coming traffic.

Yes, they're cocks...And on our straight flat canty roads I have high beam issues. You don't D cos you drive a high wheeled juggernaut where you sit a mile in the air...I drive an oldish, fairly low car and even dipped beam from most utes/suv's is too bloody high for comfort.

+1 on our hilly and congested northern roads or when followed at night by some SUV/ute

Having watched the WOF process, it looks like the dip regs merely require a certain angle of dip from horizontal. IMO it should be a measurement of where the top of the beam strikes the road at a certain distance in front. This should negate the effect of high placed lights....

And as for people towing at night or carrying a heavy load in the back......

All a bit laissez faire and let the car markers dictate what will happen rather than the "authorities" laying down the rules... IIRC, South Australia had words with Chrysler about the side lights and tail lights on a certain Valiant model, the VF and VG series... though Chrysler did win in the end.

[Luckylegs]

If you can adjust your headlight beams down, can you also adjust them up? In the olden days cars had fog lights that only came on with the side marker lights and never with headlights - thinking of the Mitsi Sigma range with built-in fog lights. Nowadays seems a little laissez faire just what and how you light the road ahead and, consequently, blind on-coming traffic.

Lol - yeh, i can adjust them up and down... if i start at 4 (from 0-6). I can only presume that the clever san's at fuji heavy industries no what there doing with the resulting beam set at 0 being friendly for other road users.

Interestingly, as an aside - i tried an experiment the other night in the fog and drove with just the fog lights and just before i got smacked around the head by my wife all i could think of was a slot car set i had as a kid. You could turn of the lights and watch the cars going around with just the glow in the dark lines printed on the track.

such fun...

[pritch]

Lol - yeh, i can adjust them up and down... if i start at 4 (from 0-6). I can only presume that the clever san's at fuji heavy industries no what there doing with the resulting beam set at 0 being friendly for other road users.

Your previous post is the first mention I've seen of someone using that little wheel appropriately. I have spoken to a person with a lifetimes work in the motor trade who had no idea what it was for.

When I was working we had two women drive from Palmerston North to New Plymouth at night, complaining all the way about the crap headlights. Of course it never occured to them to get the manual out of the glovebox and see if there might be a reason. They waited until Monday to complain to me. Somebody else short of a clue had set the lights down as far as they'd go.

Basically I thought it was there for if there was a heavy load like a big toolbox in the boot which would tend to make your headlights point at the sky, but using it for fog would work too.

[dangerous]

Interestingly, as an aside - i tried an experiment the other night in the fog and drove with just the fog lights and just before i got smacked around the head by my wife all i could think of was a slot car set i had as a kid. You could turn of the lights and watch the cars going around with just the glow in the dark lines printed on the track.

such fun...

Ok, fog lights as a general are YELLOW not a white light... not that common these days.. in stead cars are fitted with "driving lights" thats day runners found in the lower bumper, a bright thin beam that is there to be seen from afar in the day... hence THEY are cunts at night.. on there own not so bad but you cant drive at night with just them... add the head lights and its a fucking lot of light burning ya eye balls out (well mine some people it may not bother.

Basically I thought it was there for if there was a heavy load like a big toolbox in the boot which would tend to make your headlights point at the sky

It is... well for toeing a great idea but the average kiwi dosent think like Mr Nipon... ohhh no we want to light the hole country up making a squid boat look silly... great idea but not in that many cars.

[neels]

It is... well for toeing a great idea but the average kiwi dosent think like Mr Nipon... ohhh no we want to light the hole country up making a squid boat look silly... great idea but not in that many cars.

Used to pass a silly cow in a horrid people mover thing (already forming a low opinion of her) who would have the headlights, high beams and fog lights under the bumper on while on the way to drop the kids off. Couldn't see a bloody thing driving towards it, and even if I'd bothered to clean the windscreen it wouldn't have helped, after I bothered to hook up the driving lights on the old terrano and fired them up with the high beams few times she seemed to get the message.

[russd7]

Used to pass a silly cow in a horrid people mover thing (already forming a low opinion of her) who would have the headlights, high beams and fog lights under the bumper on while on the way to drop the kids off. Couldn't see a bloody thing driving towards it, and even if I'd bothered to clean the windscreen it wouldn't have helped, after I bothered to hook up the driving lights on the old terrano and fired them up with the high beams few times she seemed to get the message.

yeah but at least ya can be seen when ya drive with ya high beams on during the day, well at least that is what some bikers believe as they blind the oncoming traffic in their righteousness.

[granstar]

Ok, fog lights as a general are YELLOW not a white light... not that common these days.. in stead cars are fitted with "driving lights" thats day runners found in the lower bumper, a bright thin beam that is there to be seen from afar in the day... hence THEY are cunts at night.. on there own not so bad but you cant drive at night with just them... add the head lights and its a fucking lot of light burning ya eye balls out (well mine some people it may not bother.

It's not just me then, I really struggle when it's wet for some reason and have used amber polaroid lenses over my specs to help see the road that dissapears in headlight glare grasshopper.

[Berries]

Coffee. I like a good coffee. I generally buy one most mornings after parking up and going in to work. Nice and relaxed, have a quick chat with the bird who makes them then I am on my way. I may even converse with other people if there are any waiting.

Petrol. I need to get petrol quite often. I want to fill up, pay and fuck off. That is all I need from a petrol station.

So why the fuck do petrol stations now serve fucking coffee so I have to stand and wait to pay for my petrol behind some fucking bint in her pyjamas who is going to drive off in her fucking slippers with her eight children drinking her slim (too fucking late) flat white instead of thinking about her driving.

BP black bean cafe or whatever? Cocks.
Z? Wankers.

At least take my money while you jiggle the frother or whatever it is. Bunch of fucking cunts.

[Akzle]

take my money while you jiggle the frother

the last time i did that in public i got tackled by some big cunt with a tarpaulin.

[scumdog]

And as for people towing at night or carrying a heavy load in the back......

Tell me about it - soft sprung late model Nissan 4X4 with a sack of spuds in the back + their modern sharp upper cut-off headlights = total piss-off when you're heading towards them

And I agree with that comment by somebody about motorbikes getting along on full-beam in a dull day - makes it hard to spot the two or three bikes behind them who are using dip.

[dangerous]

after I bothered to hook up the driving lights on the old terrano and fired them up with the high beams few times she seemed to get the message.

HELL yeah... thats why this.. turns into THIS

And I agree with that comment by somebody about motorbikes getting along on full-beam in a dull day - makes it hard to spot the two or three bikes behind them who are using dip.

yip and those bright as fuck day lights mostely seen on adventure bikes... I find distance hard to judge as the guy on the Honda headed to Darfield in the mornings found...

[Grumph]

OK - got to tell my light story now, D.

When first married we shifted to 1st home in Diamond Harbour. Nice place, fun drive but not every workday or at night...We had a mighty Suzuki Fronte - 500cc car...Lights just as you would expect, barely adequate.
So I asked around my rally mates, and came up with a pair of Cibie 100W Super Oscars. Some brackets and heavy duty wiring plus suitable switch and we had a set of lights which would show a cow at one end of the Wheatsheaf straight from the other end...
Looked absolutely stupid, small car, huge lights. Had to arrange it so main beams went off when they came on - and couldn't run them for long cos the charging system couldn't keep up.

One night around the head of the harbour, a car wouldn't dip for me so they got the full blast. Turned out to be a cop...Once he'd pulled me up we had a little discussion after which he apologised for not dipping. He'd pursued cos he couldn't believe the setup was legal...