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Shouldn`t the first and second bulletpoints refer to DIPPED headlights?From those who enforce the rules..
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Hands up who knew what stretch tyres were.
I've seen them around.... makes as much sense as wearing your cap backwards.Hands up who knew what stretch tyres were.
Not me. I had to look it up and it means to stretch a tyre onto a much wider rim than intended. Is this the silliest tyre fashion yet.
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1. So according to Suffolk police, you CAN use your fog lights in all instances of poor visibility (under 100m), including rain or snow, and not only when it's foggy. This is also what I knew, though I have read elsewhere that it's illegal to use fog lights when it's not actually foggy?
Interesting that:
''Cars, light van, trailers - minimum depth of the tread on your tyres is 1.6 millimetres, across the central ¾ of the tread around the complete circumference of the tyre.''
that requirement would see a prosecution when 1/4 of the tread width worn below limit was to one side - as can happen with camber/toe variations.
1/8 of tread width is the limit there then.
That’s because so many people (younger generation?) now have auto lights so they don’t think about lighting (or driving in general for many of them!).Speaking of poor visibility has anybody noticed the number of cars that drive in reduced visibility with just their daylight running lights instead of headlights and I mean just the front DRL because rears aren’t fitted, especially on the m/w.
True. And the now common practice of instruments being illuminated independent of the external lights removes another clue that lights aren’t on when they need to be (albeit that there’s always a “lights on” tell tale indicator).That’s because so many people (younger generation?) now have auto lights so they don’t think about lighting (or driving in general for many of them!).
Regarding auto lights, as the lady who did the handover of my E350CDI in Stuttgart said, the auto lights sensor detects darkness, not poor visibility, so you still have to operate the lights manually in some circumstances.
Yes - my 212 does thisMy recollection is that on the w211 if the wipers auto-activated then the threshold of brightness at which the auto-lights would activate was higher - so the lights would activate on a dull rainy day.
It was my understanding the auto-lights came on whenever the wipers operated for longer than 30secs, this was how they worked on my S203 and W219. Nothing to do with light levels, simply linked to wiper operation.My recollection is that on the w211 if the wipers auto-activated then the threshold of brightness at which the auto-lights would activate was higher - so the lights would activate on a dull rainy day.
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