some good points have been raised
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some good points have been raised
You've reminded me Gavs! Thank you. I almost forgot that next service I want the halogen DRL's turned ON on my sisters Polo. For some reason they were turned off by the dealer/the factory.
I know what you mean about a change in drivers behaviour, in the Polo (no drl) people seem to take more risks (I suppose) around it. But in the Megane (blindingly-bright led drl's) people seem to see you much, much earlier.
guess its a measure we now have to take due to the large amount of inattentive drivers on the road
on all my previous cars i always used to leave the fog lights on (they were never bright enough to dazzle enough, but enough to alert other drivers of my presence)
DRL... are great on the Fabia RS, you generally notice a difference in other drivers attitude or behaviour when they see them.
Although those that are texting, or looking down at their lap still don't notice.
:facepalm:
Classic example gavs as to why I think DRLs are essential. Most of the time you see other cars without the need for DRLs, but it's that one time when there is glare, or the road dips, or the angle is off, or the colour of the car is difficult to see, or whatever... that could mean death. We're only human! Many studies conclude DRLs have a small benefit in reducing accidents. Any reduction is a good reduction. It's about time the government got serious and investigated all avenues of road safety in reducing accidents... not just the ones that make them money.
In the early to mid 1970's the NSW DMT in concert with NRMA and others encouraged/recommended driving with headlights on during daytime hours as a safety campaign. Special emphassis was given to the situation of "driving out of the sun" early morning and late afternoon where an oncoming vehicle has GREAT difficulty seeing your vehicle, headlights ON gives you a much greater chance of being seen. Turn 'em on and live longer, teach your kids, encourage others you know. Cheers all.
Before the dual carriageway upgrade from Holbrook to Albury, there were signs regarding the area being a headlight on safety study being carried out, however I have never seen anything on the results of the study.
Last night, I was returning from a Good Friday service around 9 pm in Bendigo and there was a charcoal grey Golf (recent model) that was happily driving through Bendigo without any lights on. No amount of frantic flashing of lights could get the driver to turn their lights on. It had NO lights on, DRL or main beam.
I didn't know about the daytime headlights until I picked up the car. Didn't see on any of the private cars or test drive car (must have all been MY12). Really bugged me on the first day... But grown use to it. Want to change the yellow bulbs from stock though. Any recommendations for a simplenn need to reprogram or rewire fix? Osram or Phillips?
There are many options to choose from:
If you have foglights you can swap the DRL functionality from the low beam to the foglights and change the bulbs to white ones or high powered LEDs or what ever you choose.
You could also change the low beam bulb to a philips blue vision ultra or something a bit more white. (Not xenon, the low voltage on the TFL terminal will destroy the xenon ballast. Also xenons in reflector = BAD!
You could also disable the low beam DRL via the TFL terminal and change the coding to always have the parking lights on (terminal 52 on with ignition) and change the parker to a high powered LED - this would emit less light than the other options but its better than nothing.