Day time running lights & mhd

[problemchild1976]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

I actually think the led ones are are better as they are more visible from further away - they are more intense (not brighter)

Better = more visible/attention grabbing

Drivers in the UK seem to be more and more unaware of what's going on....

....I nearly got mowed down on a pelican crossing the other day! The green man had come on and about 10 of us ambled across and a car doing only 25mph on a long straight road past the shopping centre just wet straight through the red light for the crossing!

Even my size 9 cats in the rear door didn't make them stop - just kept their 25mph speed!!!!!

Can you get personal DLRs ??

JJ

[lalli_d1]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

have a look at the cars in the us...they have their indicators on constantly - low beam.

are you saying by that that they're not daytime running lights?

the whole point of drl's is so the front of the car is 'seen' given the amount of drivers on the road that just pull out without a care in the world...

they are not daytime running they are side markers!

[Evilution]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

NO, they are daytime running lights.

"Depending on prevailing regulations and vehicle equipment, the daytime running light function may be implemented by functionally-specific lamps, by operating the low-beam headlamps or fog lamps at full or reduced intensity, by operating the high-beam headlamps at reduced intensity, or by steady-burning operation of the front turn signals."

so enlighten me as to why volvos have dip beam on all the time and in scandanavian countries thet have dip beam on and not the LED's?

I have already enlightened you but you are being stubborn. Different manufacturers implement them differently. The cheapest way is to operate the dipped beams at full power otherwise they have to reduce the intensity of the main beam, have dedicated DRLs or fit fog lights as standard. In America they have had the side markers (indicators to you) on constantly for years axting as DRLs, when they indicate, they flash off.

The only reason Volvo have the front and rear lights come on is because the DRLs are a cheap bodge job. All they did was bypass the light switch and power it from an ignition switched live, therefore all the lights come on, not just the front ones that are required as DRLs. Cheap!

[lalli_d1]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

I have already enlightened you but you are being stubborn. Different manufacturers implement them differently. The cheapest way is to operate the dipped beams at full power otherwise they have to reduce the intensity of the main beam, have dedicated DRLs or fit fog lights as standard. In America they have had the side markers (indicators to you) on constantly for years axting as DRLs, when they indicate, they flash off.

The only reason Volvo have the front and rear lights come on is because the DRLs are a cheap bodge job. All they did was bypass the light switch and power it from an ignition switched live, therefore all the lights come on, not just the front ones that are required as DRLs. Cheap!

im not being stubbourn, im just set in my ways
would you pay over £100 for a set of LED's or read the manual and switch them on yourself? i know which one id choose!

[problemchild1976]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

When we visited Sweden in the early 90's - 24hr ferry to Gothenburg then a drive up country - we had to always remember to manually switch on our sidelights everytime

Trouble with drls is that when everyone has them, people start to ignore them again and pull out in front of people - if you can't see a huge 1 tonne lump of metal heading towards you, get off the road - haha!

JJ

[craigmhd]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

oh dear have i opened a hornets nest

[Evilution]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

would you pay over £100 for a set of LED's or read the manual and switch them on yourself? i know which one id choose!

doesn't always work though plus if you are going to be force to have something on your car, it might as well look good.

[lalli_d1]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

doesn't always work though plus if you are going to be force to have something on your car, it might as well look good.

but they dont look good, they look like an after thought!

[problemchild1976]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

i love the white LED look on the audis.... rear LED's are also awesome!

what looks carp are those slightly blue ones that aren't very bright and are just tie wrapped onto the bumper

JJ

[craigmhd]

Re: Day time running lights & mhd

i had audi look alike one's on my vw T4 liked them at first then they got realy comon now i hate then. but each to there own taste