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was that before or after farming today?
I think it was after the Shipping Forecast - "Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea - winds decreasing three or four..." etc.
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Daytime running lights
I think it was after the Shipping Forecast - "Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea - winds decreasing three or four..." etc.
old man :nerner:
was that before or after farming today?
whats wrong with farming might i ask?
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I completely agree with you Beany bot (for a change
)the only thing side lights or more accurately parking lights are meant to be used for is parking in an area with a speed limit >30mph (and driving in an area subject to a speed limit upto and equal to 30mph and street lit)
The amount of tool's you see driving in fog or heavy rain with just parking lights is unreal and reading to the letter of the law so is driving in fog with just parking lights and front fogs (unless again your in a lit 30 area)
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old man :nerner:
was that before or after farming today?
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Although it is true that turning on additional electrics will increase fuel consumption, I think DRLs will make no difference whatsoever as the ones fitted to new cars will be LEDs & use so little power, the engine won't even notice - after all, as the engine is ticking over, it doesn't begin to labour when you turn on the radio or sidelights because it is already producing an abundance of energy - certainly enough to cope with a couple of small electrics being switched on.
i sometimes have my sides on when its raining
Not thick, it's quite a hard thing to visualise. The electricity is made by a conductor being moved through a magnetic field. In the alternator in fact you spin a magnet and have fixed coils. Now with no load all the work the engine has to do is to overcome the frictioal loss in the bearings and slip rings and the rotor windage(plus anything else I've forgotten. ) The reason for this is no current is flowing. When we put a load on the generator then a current flows in the coils which generates a magnetic field in opposition to the one in the rotating magnet. ( It comes out like this because of conservation of energy) The work being done by the engine is to overcome the same force you would feel if you tried to push 2 like poles of a magnet together. (ie S ti S or N to N)
DRL's are just sidelights that you cant turn off. wtf is the point of that
those xmas tree style lights on the latest audi's are going too far. are they meant to help the sun do its job? i've seen dimmer bonfires.
those xmas tree style lights on the latest audi's are going too far. are they meant to help the sun do its job? i've seen dimmer bonfires.
Seen many tosspot drivers this morning driving about with front/rear foglights on depsite visibilty clearly being more than 100m on a slight foggy morning in the north
Are you trying to blind us all or something you tw*ts?
Are you trying to blind us all or something you tw*ts?
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Lights on the Marea go on and off with the engine anyway, all you would have to do is switch them on and leave the switch in the on position.
If they bring in DRL's then the police should clamp down on tw*ts with their fog lights on in all weathers. Driving down the motorway in heavy rain and there is always one with his fogs on, blinding everyone behind him.
If they bring in DRL's then the police should clamp down on tw*ts with their fog lights on in all weathers. Driving down the motorway in heavy rain and there is always one with his fogs on, blinding everyone behind him.
when i was a young un i got pulled for it loads of times, sometiems twice in the same week. it only made fogs even more of a statement- "look i'm so cool i dont even care if i get pulled over".
kids eh?
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If i had fog lights i would always have them on.
on the mk2 the fogs are in the headlamps.
maybe your pauper spec model doesnt have them.
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it doesnt.
i would only have them on if they were seperate like this....
Front fogs are fine, its rear fogs that annoy me specially when its raining. I've been sooooo tempted to drive behind one of these prats with headlights on full beam.
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on the mk2 the fogs are in the headlamps.
maybe your pauper spec model doesnt have them.
Are they 'fogs' or more likely 'spot' lights? Front fog lights are supposed to be fitted below a certain height and as such are covered by useage restrictions as per the constructions and use act (should only be used in conditions of greatly reduced visibility).
I have front fogs in my Uno SX. The only times I tend to use them is when I see a car coming the other way with theirs on. Oh, they normally get a blast of main beam at the same time :devil:
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I think it was after the Shipping Forecast - "Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea - winds decreasing three or four..." etc.
or womans hour?
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in the manual they are called foglights, and the switch has a classic foglight switch symbol.
in the uk spot lights or driving lights do not exist, they are all considered to be fog lights. that is why boyracers cant avoid the fog light law when they have their spot lights on.
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