On 28/11/2020 18:33, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 11/28/2020 12:47 PM, trader_4 wrote:
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?Â*Â* AFAIK fog lights are not required in NJ, there might
be some state that
does, but I doubt it.Â* From my experience they are close to worthless
anyway.Â* Maybe
if you live somewhere that regularly has serious fog, they might be
useful.



At least in some states, if the car has them they must work in order to
pass inspection.Â* Unless foggy, they would not be on anyway so the
police would not stop you.
Of the 30 or so cars I've owned, only a few had fog lights.Â* Just three
I can think of and I never used them.

Does the US have a mandatory yearly car safety check?
In the UK your car has to be tested annually. It is illegal to drive a
vehicle without a valid and up to date MOT (Ministry Of Transport)
certificate.
The test is quite strict and includes headlight alignment and UV etc,
etc...

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-insp...rcial-vehicles