Carlton Parking lights

That is correct. It is supposed to that.

HTH

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Seconded - handy for these dark evenings.

Yep that's normal

As no doubt many people have posted, yes, it does do that, as do loads of other German cars. Can't remember if my Manta did it, but I'm sure nearly every post-Beetle VW I've had did, all the Audis, and yes, the Senator...

Richard

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AFAIR A few other makes in the 80's had the same feature. Audi one that comes to mind. Mike.

IIRC, it's a requirement in Germany, so all German made cars have the provision for it, although not all of them have it still functioning when imported to the UK. My E39 has it, the previous E34 not.

The first UK car I remember with this was the Ford Zephyr MK IV. And with the parking lights selected it defeated the starter. The AA got rather fed up with it...

My MkIII Cortina had it as well.

John

Thirded - mates new Corsa does it as well...

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Fourth-ed - had a golf that had that.

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What ever happened to those parking lights with red & white lenses, which could be temporarily fitted onto a side window and plugged into the ciggy lighter? Presumably they're now illegal.

Terry D,

Fifth-ed, my Audi does it as well! I was wondering the other day why the "you've left your lights on" warning buzzer was activated when the engine was off, but I'd left the indicator on.

I couldn't find any mention of it in the Carlton handbook though, funnily enough. Looked up parking lights, and all it told me about was the sidelights.

Peter

Sixth-ed, my BMW does it too. Interestingly though rather than just use the normal indicator switch positions, there's a detent position beyond the normal travel of the stalk for the parking lights. And, IIRC, there's a mechanism interlock to only allow it when the igntion key's at

1. Clever really; stops them coming on just because you've forgotten to cancel the indicators before you get out.

Don't see why they would be. I think you can still buy them from people that sell lights and mirrors for old cars in Practical Classics...

Richard

Last time I was at a friends house in Sawtry, a village not far from Peterborough, there was a car parked at the side of a 40mph road with one of these. Red to the back, white to the front.

I queried this, and my friend said that it was illegal to park at night, on a road >30mph, without showing your lights.

The police were very hot for that in the area, and all the cars had them!

This was a couple of years ago though.

Pete.

I think it still is, if the road is unlit.

It used to be common when I was a kid, but then the street lights didn't stay on all night.

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Aye, those black out regulations.. bloody Germans...

I'm old, but not that old. ;-)

It was to save gas :-) Stuart

Unfortunately, you're right. ;-)