James Wilkinson wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
James Wilkinson wrote

I know when my lights are on because they're
lighting up the ground in front of the ****ing car!

Not when you have turned them on when it was
dark, had the sun come up while using the car,
and then stop using the car rather later.

That happened to a friend of mine.

Yeah, I do it quite a bit, essentially because the garage sale run
normally starts in the dark because we like to show up at the ones
that are sposed to open at 7am at 6am and thats in the dark in winter.

Maybe about 20% of the time I find I still have the lights on later.

Not a problem with the Getz, it turns all the lights off when you turn
the ignition off and lock the car with the remote and beeps to remind
you that the lights are on when you do that in case you want to turn the
sidelights on again if you want them on with the car parked and locked.

My Golf annoyed me - to put on one half of the sidelights (the side in the
middle of the road), you pushed the indicator stalk in that direction with
the engine off. But when you pull over on the left, your indicator is
already facing that way, the wrong way for the side you want lit up.

Mine is much older than that and doesnt have any of that ****.

Neither does the much more recent than your Golf Getz.

The Merc one of my mates borrowed when a tree had jumped
out and attack her car did have that sort of fancy selective
sidelight **** and she had to get me to turn the lights off on that.

We were driving to a party and staying the night we arrived
early about 5pm in daylight. When we got out of teh car a
regan IIRC it was beeping he had no idea why so ignored it.

Around 10am we attempted to leave and teh car wouldnlt start flat
battery.

Yeah, the 73 Golf does let you leave the car with
the lights on and on a few occasions one of the
neighbours had told me that the lights are still on.

I used to have a car with three 100Ah batteries in the back in addition to
the main one. It was because I went camping in it and used a fridge etc.
I used to leave the lights on deliberately at work and see how many
panicked people would tell me I was going to flatten my battery.

They weren't panicking, just being helpful.

we think what happened is he put the lights on to go through blackwall
tunnel and forgot to turn them off after exciting the tunnel.

None of our tunnels need the cars to have their lights on.
One of the underground car parks under one of the shopping
malls does see some turn their lights on when in there, but
thats not to see where you are going, more to make their
car more visible to other people.

You should be able to see another car with the lighting in a car park.

You can see that better with the car headlights on.

Probably just people with automatic lights.

Nope.