Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[Frosties]

Fucktard car designers who think "yup, it's an excellent idea to have the dash lights on when the car is running, irrespective of if the car main lights are on or not"


FECKIN NO!!!!! You end up with the soppy twats driving at night with just their running lights looking at their dash thinking their lights are on. See it more and more....aaaarrrgggghhhhh  :grumble

[fazersharp]

I have just not 1 hour ago had that same conversation after seeing a car with NO lights on at all. I was scratching my head thinking how can they not know because on my dash I get extra lights around the cd player and heating controls that I would notice were not on.
I was putting it down to a section of new LED lamposts that give a very goo clean bright white light meaning that you cannot see your own lights affect

[Frosties]

I have just not 1 hour ago had that same conversation after seeing a car with NO lights on at all. I was scratching my head thinking how can they not know because on my dash I get extra lights around the cd player and heating controls that I would notice were not on.
I was putting it down to a section of new LED lamposts that give a very goo clean bright white light meaning that you cannot see your own lights affect

Sharpy, next time you pass a car like this have a peak inside and see the speedo and rev counter lit up. Citroens and Toyota Prius are classics.

[fazersharp]

I do have a citroen but on my dash I get extra lights around the cd player and heating controls that come on with the lights that I would notice were not on. There is also the warning light on the dash, maybe people are just too busy looking at there shat naffs

[BBROWN1664]

Fazersharp, my view is the same as Frosties etc as I tend not to notice "other lights " in the car. If its dark outside and the speedo is visible then my lights must be on. This is one reason when I drive my dads Audi I go into the menus and turn off the DRL's.

There are another bunch of fecwits though. Those who drive down the road with no lights on and you wonder when the last time they looked at their speedo was as there is no way that they could have seen it in the dark.

[fazersharp]

My speedo and main dash is an lcd but in reverse in that it is black but the numbers are silver/clear and it is permanently lit green from the back other wise you would not see them. But to help me realize my lights are not on as well as the cd ect being lit, the main permanently lit dash dims when the lights ar turned on so that you realize that its looking brighter than it should.
So yes it is a bad design that can lead to driver error but as you say people just must not be looking at the dash at all. 

[Freck]

So yes it is a bad design that can lead to driver error but as you say people just must not be looking at the dash at all.

Or at the road ahead to see the light cast from the headlights?  :rolleyes

[joebloggs]

Focin muppets I work with want to buy our manager a xmas present. WTF,

I sweat for my manager not the other way around

[unfazed]

Focin muppets I work with want to buy our manager a xmas present. WTF,

I sweat for my manager not the other way around

Could never understand that logic myself.

[fazersharp]

[quote author=fazersharp link=topic=17546.msg219282#msg219282 date=1450459921]
So yes it is a bad design that can lead to driver error but as you say people just must not be looking at the dash at all.

Or at the road ahead to see the light cast from the headlights?  :rolleyes
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Well there you are back to my first post the section of street was brightly lit with white LED lamp posts - you canot see your own light beam 

[pete786.u]

Cage drivers that drive about with only one headlight working, went to the chippie on thursday and saw at least 3 in the space of about 4 miles. Surley you must notice if they are not both working.  :wall

[darrsi]

Cage drivers that drive about with only one headlight working, went to the chippie on thursday and saw at least 3 in the space of about 4 miles. Surley you must notice if they are not both working.  :wall

I mentioned that on a different post yesterday.
They do fecking notice, they're just lazy bastids that don't care.
I've seen one overtaking a car coming towards me before that had no right light, so the car was on my side of the road but the only lit light looked like a bike within its lane.


When i'm finally allowed to get my machine gun fitted to my fairing, probably during WW3, it won't be so much of an issue.  :2guns

[YamFazFan]

Cage drivers that drive about with only one headlight working, went to the chippie on thursday and saw at least 3 in the space of about 4 miles. Surley you must notice if they are not both working.  :wall

I think part of the issue with that is the fact that the headlamp bulbs on most cars are so difficult to replace nowadays due to limited access to the rear of the lamps.

There is so much extra stuff under the bonnet these days and it all has to be crammed in somewhere.

I've been told that on some models the bumper has to come off to change a bulb!.

I reckon it puts people off trying to do it themselves, when years ago it would have been a breeze.

[Frosties]

[quote author=pete786.u link=topic=17546.msg219337#msg219337 date=1450513348]
Cage drivers that drive about with only one headlight working, went to the chippie on thursday and saw at least 3 in the space of about 4 miles. Surley you must notice if they are not both working.  :wall

I think part of the issue with that is the fact that the headlamp bulbs on most cars are so difficult to replace nowadays due to limited access to the rear of the lamps.

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Totally agree - hence shed loads of poorly aligned (read "cack handed replacement") lights shining all over the place. Never used to be an issue.

[BBROWN1664]

Cage drivers who have one out of 3 or more brake light bulb that actually light up

Cage drivers who let halfrauds  "we're shit" fit a new headlight bulb upside down.

Tyre fitters who think rear tyres don't need balancing
Tyre fitters that use air guns to do up the nuts and then use a torque wrench to pretend they are doing it properly
Tyre fitters that over inflate tyres by 30% because they are too feccin lazy to check the correct pressure.

[slappy]

Wankers in 4x4s who cannot  foccing use them,  I came to a dip in the road that was flooded to find one in front  of me that was doing a multi point turn to avoid the flood and  then I took my Focus through and the "flood" was only about six inches deep.

[maddog04]

Cunts sitting in the outside lane, whether it's a 2 lane or 3 lane carriageway.....WTF?

just move over and let us past for you dozy fuckin fuckwits...gggrrrrrr

[slimwilly]

theyre still doing it,, i fooking hate em,,,look at them ,,,fools,,,wrong it is,,,twats,,,oh look all the lorry drives are doing it,,small dicks they have,,,,conts ,the lot of em,,,are they Scottish ? or what,,




yes ,,,still driving with their bloody fog lights on,,,,that's it

[NorthWestern]

Sky TV!  You pay for the service /channels and they still pepper everything with adverts. Every time you put the telly on it will be adverts. I can watch adverts while eating breakfast and finish before anything comes on like a tool!

[red98]

Ah yes....sky tv.......iam not a sports fan and I dont watch soaps or sit coms.....usually end up watching history channel or sometimes spike, gold......which show a lot of BBC programs which ive already paid for and watched, I pay my sky subs and watch the same programs again with the adverts .........iam sure in some cases the ads last longer than the programs  :grumble :grumble :grumble :grumble......and another thing.after every advert they repeat the bit you watched before the foccin adverts  :grumble :grumble :grumble..............thanks NW..thats pissed me right off    :lol