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Originally Posted by bl52krz
The cars made these days are all for women who do not feel safe unless they are sitting in cars that weigh ten ton,and five foot high. They are driven like sports cars, without any thought as to stopping.And another thing is, how can those damn lights be legal. If I put 100 watt bulbs in my car, they are illegal. Yet these spotlight like lights are so bright and certainly not aimed properly.Utterly ridiculous and unsafe for other drivers. On the new cars the headlights are just at other drivers eye line. I think they should be banned on the grounds of safety. I have actually thought of fitting a couple of the old spotlights., blue spot, that I took off my Daimler many years ago, and mounting them rally style at the same height. Did you know that headlights can not be higher than 41 inches from the ground, I think. Be good idea to measure some of these ‘blinders’ to see how high they are.
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I must be cut from the same grumpy cloth as you.........I've just unearthed a set of Cibie Super Oscars and was considering setting them on one of the roof cross bars.
Many moons ago I had a pair of Cibie Airport 35 quartz iodine driving lamps bolted to the rear parcel shelf, and when you had some pillock behind on main beam, a quick flick of the switch was all that was required to "remind" them of their folly.
What really gets my goat are cars fitted with super bright led rear lights, especially SUV type cars, where the inconsiderate person driving insists upon standing on the brake pedal while stationary at night.
How hard is it to apply the handbrake??, I use mine as a matter of course if stopped for more than five seconds at a set of traffic lights.
Super bright led headlamps, xenon gas discharge lamps, to be fair if you think any of this is necessary to enable you to see in the dark, your licence should be restricted to daytime driving only due to defective night vision.
I drove one of the Marinas last week, 7" Lucas sealed beam headlights, in the rain, after dark along an unlit road..........do you know what happened?? nothing at all, I made the journey in complete safety without any anxiety that I couldn't see the road ahead safely, nor that I didn't have a complex that there was no airbag, nor servo assistance to the brakes, nor power steering, or ABS.
The point I'm trying to make here, sometimes technological advances are for the good, but considering some of the current "Mini" range is now the size of a 75, and "supersizing" cars gives the driver a false sense of security when on the road.
Many moons ago, I sold my first XW Rover to my then boss, a 1989 G reg 214SLi.
He gave it to one of his sales reps who had complained about his Passat TDi estate not being the "red i" model, and refused to wash or vacuum it in protest.
After driving the Rover for a day, this character came into the office complaining the car he'd been given as a punishment was dangerous........the reason it didn't have PAS, nor air conditioning
I don't think he was too impressed at being called a "soft puff" by the gaffer though, especially when he was told I'd managed to clock up 45,000 miles in the same car over a ten month period
Brian
