On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 9:53:57 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:18:47 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:13:08 -0500, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:05:44 -0600, Hank Rogers

Remember when we had sealed beam headlights? Plain, cheap Glass.

And they never burned out. Though I decided to get fancy and I
replaced them once with halogen, and those did burn out.


Your memory of sealed beams is different than mine.
Well maybe I didn't drive as much as I could have.
Besides replacing a few on my own
cars, I saw many "one-eyed" cars on the road. That's a rare sight nowadays.
But I drive less now than I did then, and I was one-eyed twice in the
last two years. Occasionally when I'm facing something reflective, a
store window, certain cars, I test my headlights but I don't know how
long they had been out. There are enough street lights here that
unless I go to the next town at night, I can't tell by how well I can
see.

Also one fog light burned out. Will the police stop you for that? I
guess, if allowed, it would make a good excuse and they like to stop
people.


Police where? AFAIK fog lights are not required in NJ, there might be some state that
does, but I doubt it. From my experience they are close to worthless anyway. Maybe
if you live somewhere that regularly has serious fog, they might be useful.