Check your lights!
 

Why is it that every time I go out in the car I always end up behind someone who's tail lights are faulty?

It is very reare these days to be behind someone who actually has 2 stop lights working.

Despite it being a legal requirement, it seems that no-one ever bothers to check thier lights to see if they are working.
If there was to be an accident & you were found to have faulty lights then I'm sure that there will be all sorts of legal consiquences.

So come on folks, check your car tail lights, It cannot just be Burnley where 1/2 of them do not work (Cardiff was just the same).

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lol my favourites are all the old Ford cars whose entire lighting cluster pulses when they try to use the indicator.

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What about those 'odd' folk who ensure their main beams and foglights are on irregardless of day or night or weather conditions???

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Thats called "Water in the light cluster"

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Well you know what FORD stands for... ;)

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Anyone have any suggestions how to check your lights by yourself?

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turn on lights .... get out of car, take a look :D

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you could try parking in front of a large window & look at the reflection in your mirror :)

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Brake lights, not so easy - neither is finding a large window to park in front of....

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God people and fog lights really 'drive' me mad..............as soon as there a bit of rain people reach for that switch they never use and put their fog lights on the then forget to switch them off and that drive through town :mad: really get me mad. "What do they think they are doing................ they would say stop people driving into the back of them !!!!!!! More likely to happen it people can not see them brake !

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Exactly what I do............... ;)

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Handbrake on/off should show brake lights :D

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:erm: don't your brake lights only come on when you press the footbrake... i know mine do :erm:

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That's what I thought... :erm:

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you just have to be careful no-one thinks you are setting up for a ram-raid ;)

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on which model of car because it is something i have never seen happen :erm:

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SAAB have a bulb test whenever you turn the car on. You have to press the brake pedal to complete the test and check the brake light bulbs.

Clever those swedes, also the headlights will not stay on when you remove the ignition key, so you can't leave the lights on and flatten the battery (the sidelights will stay on if you put the switch in that setting, but it beeps when you open the door).

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Pity those 'clever swedes' at Volvo couldn't produce a car which automatically fires the ejector seat when the driver puts their main beams on uneccessarily :grind:

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Now that'd be good for a laugh, they could do the same for BMW drivers who turn without indicating :D

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Well my current Volvo, and all of the last three I have had, have main bulb failure indicators on the dash. My Volvo V70 has a digital trip computer that also warns me of any bulb failure, even down to which bulb is at fault, so there.:p:
And the main beam is not switched on by the driver. it is the dipped beam or "daytime driving lights" that you cannot now switch off. as you could with a small screwdriver slot in the dash on my previous V70. Properly adjusted they are not a real problem, they only cause problems if you go over a speed hump and people in side streets think you are flashing to let them out, a signal that is not recognised in the Highway Code or in most of Europe for that matter.

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Well OB you could look as if you are trying to put yer makeup on. ;)

What a bloke to could do to allay suspicion I have no idea! Adjust his syrup perhaps? :D

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We've got plenty of things we could be adjusting actually ;)

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But if you adjust THOSE then they will just think you are a perverted macho ram raider. :Yikes:

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No change there then :spin: