"Bill" wrote in message
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In message , Andrew Gabriel
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In many cars nowadays, the headlamps are not user replaceable because you
have to remove other parts of the engine to get to them. That maybe why so
many cars now drive with a headlamp out.

I've been wondering whether the modern fetish for flashing lights to say
"Come On", "Thanks" and so on isn't causing lamp failures. I thought that
when you apply volts to a cold filament, there is a sudden rush of amps.

Other hates are drivers who park, often just over the brow of a small
hill, on the wrong side of the road with the headlights on. Often these
are taxis waiting outside restaurants.
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Bill


Oh yes ! That is my biggest lighting hate. I think it just goes to show that
during driving tuition, the principle of dipped headlights is not taught,
and the drivers who do this have no idea that a dipped beam on the wrong
side of the road, is straight in the face of an approaching driver. Whenever
I come across one of these, even though my dipped beams must be in their
face, I still give them a long blast of my full beam in the fond hope that
they might actually wonder why I've done it, and perhaps finally realise ...

Arfa