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Tail lights design rant!

Stevie Dakota · 2009-07-23 10:18:02

Why do I get overly annoyed about the design of some manufacturers rear lights, 2 of my recent gripes are - BMW 3 series saloon - each tail light has two, thin illuminated sections, however the bulb illuminates only a small portion of them, and they are quite dim, the result is the clusters look like a 10 year old diesel,…

23-07-2009 11:18am

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Stevie Dakota

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Why do I get overly annoyed about the design of some manufacturers rear lights, 2 of my recent gripes are -

BMW 3 series saloon - each tail light has two, thin illuminated sections, however the bulb illuminates only a small portion of them, and they are quite dim, the result is the clusters look like a 10 year old diesel, all sooted up.

New Avensis - Huge rear lights but TINY illuminated tail light sections, not even 10% of the taillight area, why?

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#2 23-07-2009 11:26am

kayos

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Tail lights that have crap brake lights. Was behind a mitsi MPV recently (can not remember the type) it has massive clusters of LED's but sweet christ telling the difference between normal tail lights and brake lights was near immpossible.

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#3 23-07-2009 11:32am

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I always thought that brake lights should be seperate from tail lights but clearly designers think I'm wrong.

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#4 23-07-2009 11:51am

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At least we don't have brake lights combined with indicators over here.

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