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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2665   
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http://lightmare.org/default.htm
If incorrect use of fog lights, or over-bright headlights bother you, have a say here... Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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24th Nov 2014 4:53pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20359
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Many are using illegal 100w bulbs, I know that much.
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24th Nov 2014 5:07pm |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2665
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My pet hate is incorrect use of fogs. They're not tested for alignment at the MOT, so t0ssers in 10-year old cars have them pointing up to look for aircraft
I wish the cops would clamp-down on them Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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24th Nov 2014 5:12pm |
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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5110  
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inconsiderate
 who do not dip their main beams on country roads |
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24th Nov 2014 6:35pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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A lot of drivers think they are ok with one headlight ... And if equipped make up for broken headlight with fog lights
Especially bad for 45 tonne lorries Plus have you ever seen a European lorry with beam deflectors for uk roads ? Rant over  |
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24th Nov 2014 6:41pm |
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| shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347 
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Or the ones that follow you with full beams on!! Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197 Self confessed mileage hunter  |
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24th Nov 2014 6:45pm |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816 
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No, we do not see that here at all.
Personally, I don't think there is anything wrong with driving with low beam plus fog lights in order to light up side of the road close to vehicle better, that is as long as they are 1. high quality including strong sideways spread, 2. homologated, 3. good condition, and 4. perfectly aimed.... Like mine 
 Click image to enlarge In all honesty, a lot of cars have factory front fog lights which are a joke, they merely light up the road so close in front of the vehicle with too limited sideways spread, that 90% of the light output is falling right in front of the vehicle where the driver cannot even see it. 
Eric You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation. http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I https://vimeo.com/201482507 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw Last edited by ericvv on 24th Nov 2014 7:41pm. Edited 1 time in total |
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24th Nov 2014 7:12pm |
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| mick Member Since: 08 Feb 2010 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 2109  
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I hate all these led day running lights to bright and the ones that cyclists use seem to dazzle bad as well
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24th Nov 2014 7:32pm |
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| shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347
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Cyclists are in a level of there own though. So often you cannot actually see where the cyclist is because all you can see is an obscenely bright light which burns your retina.
There ether massively too bright, or flashing around all over the place which is very distracting or worse still have no lights or reflectors at all and are wearing all dark clothing on a 50mph country road! Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197 Self confessed mileage hunter |
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24th Nov 2014 8:18pm |
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| AndyS Member Since: 18 Aug 2012 Location: London Posts: 595 
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Cycling is undergoing some changes in regards to lights. It's already illegal to have just a flashing light on your bike, you can have a flashing light if you also have an 'always on' light but not a flashing light on it's own. That's because it's very difficult to gauge distance to a flashing light so an 'always on' light is required. It has been mentioned in the cycling press that bike lights are much brighter than lights on motor vehicles and so should be legislated against or at least legislated so they are the same brightness of motor vehicle lights. But cycling gets away with it to a degree because they're not motor vehicles but I can see a day coming soon when ultra bright lights are banned.
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24th Nov 2014 8:24pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6092 
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It doesn't really bother me, if someone dazzles me I just dazzle them back...simples.
those online forums aren't worth the paper they're (not) written on... if hundreds of thousands of votes on foxhunting couldn't persuade the gov't to keep it legal then a few people moaning about headlights isn't going to achieve much. |
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25th Nov 2014 9:55am |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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I think the auto dip function could help here but wasn't foolproof on old RRS. |
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25th Nov 2014 10:01am |
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| theorangebandit Member Since: 03 Jun 2013 Location: Stowmarket Posts: 862 |
That's why you wire the work lights to a switch on l the dash |
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25th Nov 2014 11:31am |
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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5808  
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Mobile phones f k.
I took a journey from Chamonix to Geneva airport a month or so ago, as a passenger. Transfer in a Renault Traffic, so sitting high up, over a distance of 85kms and at what counts for rush-hour here in the Alps. I would suggest well over 50% of drivers were using their phone (calls or text) whilst we barrelled along at 130kmh, and that went up to 80-90% whilst we crawled through the border. Absolutely staggering. In general it was youngsters and the vast majority girls. I say this not as a grumbling old misogynist but as clear fact. I even saw one girl adjusting her (ample) cleavage to take a selfie. As a regular motorbike rider I am all too aware of the actions of idiot drivers, but it has got really bad. Most drivers have never been on a bike, so never felt vulnerable, merely cocooned in their metal box, as such they do things they would never consider if they thought it might hurt themselves. But here-in lies the problem. First, everyone things being allowed to drive is a right rather than a luxury and further our views of the dangers/policing are so warped, we are more scared about being banned for drinking etc, than that we might kill someone. As such, the only appropriate measure (as quite frankly texting on a phone is as dangerous as drink driving) is to ramp up the fines to bans. Anyway, rant over.... Monsieur Le Grenadier I've not been everywhere, but it's on my list..... 2011 Puma 110DC - Corris Grey |
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25th Nov 2014 11:32am |
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