Blown Bulbs

Martron

Maybe its because i am thinking of it that i notice it more but when driving to work tommorrow have a look at how many people have a full set of working lights on their car....

ok so missing a rear driving light not so bad if the other side is ok...... missing a head light and using full lights to compensate for your inability to see in the dark is disasterous and down right lazy...... but the thing that really bugs me is not having any working brake lights!!!!!

you may think this is a rare occurance... but no. i have seen it twice in the last week.

i am a firm believer in the 2 second rule and all that but its hard to know when the car in front of you is braking until you are right up there ass.

so please check your dam lights!!

Berty

Multiple threads on this matter.

I did notice on the way up and down to Dublin/Dundalk this week that more people around the North East have working headlights. As I left the airport and came back down Mid West I noticed more and more people with faulty lights and/or misalinged lights.

When I was in Paris this week I noticed I would say 2 cars with faulty bulbs and they were ****box's.

Martron

its the brake lights that really bugs me they should be as important as seatbelts!!!!

Mycroft H

Offally people have a terrible habit of driving with only one headlight - they look like a motorbike in the distance and it is just utterly stupid and lazy and downright dangerous.
Saw a gard today waving on car with one headlight on today, thats bloody lazy too.....

Or people with fogs on when there is clearly no fog whatsoever

Berty

Stop Stop, dont go any further with this conversation.

"Wont someone think of the children?"

Martron

yeah single headlights is dangerous especially on the narrow roads in offaly!!!!! had near miss going from rhode to edenderry one day. thats another story.

Mycroft H

Martron wrote: »

yeah single headlights is dangerous especially on the narrow roads in offaly!!!!! had near miss going from rhode to edenderry one day. thats another story.

Thats a bloody bad road imo

Martron

oh yeah full on rally stage. great drive if you know there is nothing coming and you are not actually driving your own car

cashmni1

I find this very annoying too,(as well as dangerous) I also think the car looks uncared for and cannot stand my own car with lights out.

Lobster

landyman wrote: »

Offally people have a terrible habit of driving with only one headlight - they look like a motorbike in the distance and it is just utterly stupid and lazy and downright dangerous.
Saw a gard today waving on car with one headlight on today, thats bloody lazy too.....

Or people with fogs on when there is clearly no fog whatsoever

People who drive with fogs on are just plain ignorant.

peasant

*cough* charter *cough*

Martron

my gripe was brake lights not fogs

charter read.... no more mention of fogs

Mycroft H

Sorry didnt realise there wasnt ment to be any posts on people with fogs left on

Lobster

landyman wrote: »

Sorry didnt realise there wasnt ment to be any posts on people with fogs left on

Same here:o

Seth Brundle

They tend to end up with fighting and bannings and stuff!

bazz26

Don't mention the "f" word for the love of God.

congo_90

I hate the cars who's brake lights are constantly on. Saw this mostly on german cars and bugs thi sh1t outta me!

I can see foglights going to creep in here pretty soon..

Anyways yea thats my 2 cents..

craichoe

It only takes 5 minutes and its pretty annoying !

Steps include,

Stop in garage
Take out blown bulb
Lock car
Go into garage
Get replacement bulb
Walk outside
Unlock car
Replace bulb
Check its working
Get into car if all is well and drive off .. seriously.. its less work than checking the tyre pressures !!

Although there are some cars that you cant change the bulbs without going to a garage, which i understand would be annoying !

Latest Polo is one of them i believe.

Martron

yeah i had a 06 ford focus. i had to literally remove the battery to get near the headlights. i suppose with the right tools you could do it easily enough but i suppose its a ridiculous amount chargerd to change a bulb.

back lights and usually easier to change . the gf has 02 golf. you need pretty nimble fingers to change the rear lights on that ...... which i may add are always blowing.

Why dont they make it more accessible?
is it a scam to get you to return to the garage?

Cionád

My bulb blew up at the weekend - Literally burned a hole in the connection and all.

Anyway does anyone know where I can get a headlight socket for a H4 bulb? I've tried the local motor factors but no joy. Prefer not to head to the scrapyard...

Like this:

NewApproach

I knew it was bad but on my way up to galway from ennis (around 50 miles) on Sunday evening I must have seen at least 20 cars with blown headlight bulbs.

This is just so dangerous that if I was a Guard, they would be doing well to be allowed to continue the journey if I stoped them.

Nevermind speeding, I am convinced that this trend of people (esp in older cars) not bothering to change blown bulbs straight away is one of the most dangerous aspects of driving in this country.

doggone

Lights or no lights the 2 second rule at any speed is an opportunity seized by the many lunatics to pull out into the lane your trying to drive safely in. Then i want to get a small handled lump hammer and smash all their lights:eek:

mcwhirter

NewApproach wrote: »

I knew it was bad but on my way up to galway from ennis (around 50 miles) on Sunday evening I must have seen at least 20 cars with blown headlight bulbs.

This is just so dangerous that if I was a Guard, they would be doing well to be allowed to continue the journey if I stoped them.

Nevermind speeding, I am convinced that this trend of people (esp in older cars) not bothering to change blown bulbs straight away is one of the most dangerous aspects of driving in this country.

Passed a gardai car today and one of the headlights was aiming up to the moon, so don't worry, they ain't going to stop you.
What example are they teaching us, ermm to not give a bollock about blinding anyone...

Berty

To be fair to the Garda and Gardai in general. You will have many people driving that same car(and hearing todays news - none of them are licensed to do so) so if a bulb goes then they go to said Sergeant who writes them a PO for a new bulb which they go and get and the other Garda arrives later that evening for his/her shift and drives away after some numpty put the bulb in arse ways.

Also the fact that they drive nearly 24 hours a day with their headlight on and they are only standard halogens they are more prone to blowing because of their high usage.

You never know they could have been on their way to get them fixed. Thats what people tell the Gardai so...........................

A-Trak

craichoe wrote: »

It only takes 5 minutes and its pretty annoying !

Steps include,

Stop in garage
Take out blown bulb
Lock car
Go into garage
Get replacement bulb
Walk outside
Unlock car
Replace bulb
Check its working
Get into car if all is well and drive off .. seriously.. its less work than checking the tyre pressures !!

Although there are some cars that you cant change the bulbs without going to a garage, which i understand would be annoying !

Latest Polo is one of them i believe.

Thanks to my 2.5 hour attempt at changing a headlight bulb on my 156 last week,I have no skin on my fingers anymore.
Nightmare, and I still haven't sucessfully changed it.

NewApproach

Similar job with me when i was trying to change the lights on my 147. Absolute nightmare it was!

HJL

I think the time of year has a lot to do with changing bulbs.

I personally have a dip light out since Thurs, have the bulb got but the weather is so wet/cold/dark that its not feasible to stand outside messing about with the car.

I also have changed the car so am not familiar with how easy or hard it is to get at the bulbs, and i dont plan to study it in the dark after work!
Had planned to do it today but the gales and heavy showers put my plans back again!

Trampas

I can understand a rear light going for a couple of days cause you might check once a week but front lights no excuse but car manufactures must be looking for people to change their bulbs in garages cause my car the highlights on the passages side must want a childs hand cause of the battery.

I hate is the breakers then indicator to turn.

This fuxkers must be looking to get rear ended

NewApproach

Sorry stupid question probably, but are dipped and full beam bulbs interchangeable?

Cionád

NewApproach wrote: »

Sorry stupid question probably, but are dipped and full beam bulbs interchangeable?

They are the same bulb.

Alun

Cionád wrote: »

They are the same bulb.

No they're not, at least not always. Many cars use H1 for one, and H7 for the other.