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apache

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39,731 posts

305 months

Wednesday 14th January 2004
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Just another effect of leaving policing to robots. Anyone noticed how many cars have a blown head or tail lamp these days

mrflibbles

7,774 posts

304 months

Wednesday 14th January 2004
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I was thinking this on the way home. The guy in front of me had neither brake light woking and only 1 tail light. Surprisinglt, he was hard to see.

Now if I would have crashed into the back of him.....who would have been to blame?

gopher

5,160 posts

280 months

Wednesday 14th January 2004
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Yeah - Someone (very briefly) in front of me had both sets of tail lights out and seemed to know this because they had their foglights on to compensate!

(Well they had lights on I suppose, and it may have been an emergency)

_Al_

5,618 posts

279 months

Thursday 15th January 2004
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Drove through town last night, saw 4 cars with a front light out and only one with both lights.

flooritforever

861 posts

264 months

Thursday 15th January 2004
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I see lots and lots of cars like this. I can't really say much cos I have been guilty of the same until my girlfriend pointed it out after having to follow me one day. What gets me is how new some of these cars are. I've seen 53 plate cars with a bulb out. Surely they don't go that quickly?

What really annoys me though is the tits that have fully working brake and tail lights, yet drive along on a clear night with their damn fog lamps on. Bloody dazzling some of them. If the plod were about they could pull these idiots and get them to turn their fog lamps off.

Edited for speeling mistacks

>> Edited by flooritforever on Thursday 15th January 09:07

Raify

6,554 posts

269 months

Thursday 15th January 2004
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On a 20 minute journey to work in Kent, I counted over 60 cars with some sort of faulty light! (i was also counting the numpties with their fogs on)

Without getting the calculator out, that's probably about 5% of the cars I passed!

Really annoying.

and yes I was bored!

anonymous-user

75 months

Thursday 15th January 2004
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My Volvo V70 blows bulbs all the time and I now carry a set of spares with me. Being a Volvo there's an annoying little light to tell you that they've gone.

In France it is a legal requirment to carry spare bulbs in the car.

philly

190 posts

275 months

Thursday 15th January 2004
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I know this is very pedantic but there's NOT a legal requirement to carry spare bulbs in France.

Useful for the places at the ferry terminals (and Halfwits) to pretend you do though.

The law is that it's illegal to drive with a faulty light and you will get an on the spot fine for it. Thus it makes a lot of sense to have spares available in the car to avoid the fine.

Phil.

Apache

Original Poster:

39,731 posts

305 months

Thursday 15th January 2004
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tis in germany

crow_road75

7 posts

265 months

Thursday 15th January 2004
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Does anyone know if its *actually* illegal for a numpty to drive around with fog lights and side lights on in clear conditions?

Also re: the point about blown lights, I use the M40 virtually everyday, and the number of people with blown/mis-aligned headlights is scary, I'm not being funny, but I'd have thought that you'd notice that half of the road in front of you wasn't illuminated...

apache

Original Poster:

39,731 posts

305 months

Thursday 15th January 2004
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He can be fined £35 if the traffic cop for your county is around to catch him