Your car switches off the dipped beam when you turn on main beam?
The Ka doesn't do this - to my delight. Main beam is in addition to dipped beam. With standard lamps, it works well, but main beam was about chucking out stacks of light. The Morettes produce a splendid long ranged beam with a nice crisp focus to it, but it's not to the detriment of dipped beam. Works very well.
In message , Guy King writes
Either they think it costs them money, or they don't know where the switch is.
There's a twisty country lane near here that I travel along at night sometimes, and it's rarely that a car in front of me has its main beams on. I prefer to see the muntjacs/foxes/rabbits a soon as possible so as to have time to avoid them.
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All the cars I've ever driven do this.
I'm pretty certain my old Capri didn't, although every car I've ever driven with a single headlamp has,
My Rover 600 doesn't either. It switches on a second beam. Single filament bulbs so I think I'd notice.
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Conor saying something like:
Pah. You're getting old, that's all that is.
That used to be the standard - yellow one side giving a wide spread beam (nearside I think) to find the kerb and a white spot to find the centre lines of the road. Very popular in the 60's.
But this wasn't some 60s classic.....
*blushes*
My Sierra still has one yellow headlamp bulb and one white one. I suspect I shall have to change them now, or declare it a 60's classic
Was the driver though?
The Mondeo didn't - it had individual lamps. The Ka, too, with both standard lamps and the Morettes.
But the Fiesta does.
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