lead with your lights on... take 2

Necuno

Necuno

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so do you still drive with your lights on if you have recently started doing so with the "702 thing" ?

i myself only do the lights thing when i'm not driving in suburbs. i've counted 6 cars to work and rest does not, it seems that it's a thing of less and less enthusiasm.
 
The only time I turn on my headlights is when my gang members and I are having a hard time selecting a victim on initiation runs. Highbeams offer the quickest results.
 
Always drive with my lights on, my car does it automatically so I have gotten used to it all these years.
 
Generally when I'm going home I put my lights on in the parking lot because some morons cut corners so at least maybe seeing some lights will let them see there's a car there. Generally leave them on.
 
I used to do it even before this whole initiative. Then my bulbs started going after a few months, and at R300 a pop I'm not prepared to keep doing it.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
I used to do it even before this whole initiative. Then my bulbs started going after a few months, and at R300 a pop I'm not prepared to keep doing it.
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If your bulbs keep going, it's probably another problem, not the fact that you are running with bulbs doing what they were designed to do.

Pleased to say that most of us on the Durban/South Coast run are now running with headlights on.

Makes everyone a great deal more visible.
 
Fazda said:
If your bulbs keep going, it's probably another problem, not the fact that you are running with bulbs doing what they were designed to do.

Pleased to say that most of us on the Durban/South Coast run are now running with headlights on.

Makes everyone a great deal more visible.
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Except bikers... Honestly, this whole DRL thing started in northern Europe where even during the day it was always gloomy and overcast, hence the NEED for lights to be on (and even then, only at 40% power). Here in SA we actually get to see the sun more than 5 days out of the year so its completely unnecassary.
 
Archer said:
Except bikers... Honestly, this whole DRL thing started in northern Europe where even during the day it was always gloomy and overcast, hence the NEED for lights to be on (and even then, only at 40% power). Here in SA we actually get to see the sun more than 5 days out of the year so its completely unnecassary.
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Without starting this whole debate which has been hammered into oblivion, all over again. It has sweet blow all to do with sunshine and cloud at all. A car with its headlights on is more visible than one without.

End of story.
 
Fazda said:
Without starting this whole debate which has been hammered into oblivion, all over again. It has sweet blow all to do with sunshine and cloud at all. A car with its headlights on is more visible than one without.

End of story.
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It is really helpful when passing on national roads.
Lights on the left side = warning, car on left side is comming and not going :-)
Then it is safer for all concerned when traveling on national open roads.
But city driving during the day needs no lights on I think?


Now to get those idiots that drive without lights on at night ar dusk to switch on
 
Leostar said:
It is really helpful when passing on national roads.
Lights on the left side = warning, car on left side is comming and not going :-)
Then it is safer for all concerned when traveling on national open roads.
But city driving during the day needs no lights on I think?
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why i switch on outside city/suburbs

Leostar said:
Now to get those idiots that drive without lights on at night ar dusk to switch on
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or in the rain/mist...
 
Driving with your lights on during the day = most retarded thing ever.

I can't believe they wasted money on a billboard for it.... FAIL
 
Fazda said:
Without starting this whole debate which has been hammered into oblivion, all over again. It has sweet blow all to do with sunshine and cloud at all. A car with its headlights on is more visible than one without.

End of story.
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DRLs were first mandated in Scandinavian countries, where ambient light levels in the winter are generally low even during the day.
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Yip, sweet nothing to do with ambient light levels :whistle:

End of story (is this the new "I am right and nothing anyone can say about it" phrase?)
 
Now to get those idiots that drive without lights on at night ar dusk to switch on
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I nearly clobbered an idiot in the rain the other day, he was in a sapphire blue Golf sitting just behind my left bumper, with no lights on in the rain, so the car was almost invisible, if I hadn't done a blind spot double check before moving left, I would have hit him.

Idiots think that if they can still see then they are automatically visible...also nearly taken out on the freeway with a dirty burgundy red Mazda came flying up behind me at dusk, running in invisibility mode, as I was about to pass someone. Had I caught a glimpse of his lights a few hundred metres back, I wouldn't have even considered passing.

For some strange reason South Africans think that running with your lights on runs the battery flat....we do not drive Torches people....our batteries remain charged with alternators! :mad:
 
Nerfherder said:
Driving with your lights on during the day = most retarded thing ever.

I can't believe they wasted money on a billboard for it.... FAIL
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OOPS, sorry, they should have discussed the entire safety aspect with someone like you first! :rolleyes:

MEGAFAIL!
 
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