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Full beams on the motorway

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  • #52
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    shietpilot wrote: »
    Or just DRLs and the rear lights off completely :rolleyes:
    CiniO wrote: »
    What's wrong with that?
    At night time:eek:


  • #53
    shietpilot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    CiniO wrote: »
    What's wrong with that?

    Just yesterday you were saying dipped lights aren't enough :P


  • #54
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,063 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    FishOnABike wrote: »
    At night time:eek:
    shietpilot wrote: »
    Just yesterday you were saying dipped lights aren't enough :P

    Oh sorry, I never thought you mentioned night time.

    Driving with DRLs on at night time is utter stupid.
    They are only to be used during the day at good weather, and then it makes rear lights on with them unneccessery.


  • #55
    chicorytip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,171 ✭✭✭chicorytip


    The M7, for example, is a dimly lit road to drive at night. I find switching on the foglights provides just enough extra illumination without running the risk of dazzling oncoming drivers.


  • #56
    h3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    chicorytip wrote: »
    The M7, for example, is a dimly lit road to drive at night. I find switching on the foglights provides just enough extra illumination without running the risk of dazzling oncoming drivers.

    Foglights wouldn't light much more than 10 meters in front of you if even that much. Not much good when you're traveling at 120/140kph.

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  • #57
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    CiniO wrote: »
    Vast majority of motorways in Ireland, Europe and the whole world are unlit.

    Belgium is great though. Fully lit motorways. They turn them off at night though..:confused:


  • #58
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    marno21 wrote: »
    Some elements of the M7 west of Portlaoise are difficult to drive on at 120km/h, especially while overtaking a HGV.

    I call bullsh1t on that Bro


  • #59
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Rarely use main beams on the motorways ...dipped beams are enough ..it's the eejits with only their PARKING lights on the drives me bonkers....

    At night time?


  • #60
    marno21
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,465 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Jesus. wrote: »
    I call bullsh1t on that Bro
    Drive the M7 Castletown-Nenagh section and see how you get on with it.


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  • #61
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    marno21 wrote: »
    Drive the M7 Castletown-Nenagh section and see how you get on with it.

    I've driven the Limerick road many's a time. Its all well capable of 75mph imo


  • #62
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    marno21 wrote: »
    Drive the M7 Castletown-Nenagh section and see how you get on with it.

    Ah now I've driven the full length of the M7 in vans at more than the posted limit. Its a great road. Perfectly safe.


  • #63
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,949 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    I for one regularly drive the M7/8 at night - in fact I'll be doing it within the next hour :)

    Most of it is unlit and there are sections that are very dodgy with poor road surfaces (lumpy even) and awkward little "jinks" where minor bends leave you very close to the other lane if you're not aware of it.

    I always use the full beams when on a stretch with no other vehicles visible. I always dip though when lights (oncoming or rear) appear ahead of me, but I lose count of the amount of times I have to repeatedly flash some idiot who refuses to return the courtesy. Almost as bad are the ones who hit the full beams when you're only 2/300m ahead after overtaking them (thank crunchie for auto dimming mirrors).

    The one plus of travelling at this hour is that certainly the M8 will be virtually deserted.


  • #64
    visual
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    marno21 wrote: »
    Drive the M7 Castletown-Nenagh section and see how you get on with it.

    I travel the full length of m7 nearly once a month the only part is the tolls that it's not possible to do 120 +

    Even done it a couple of times in 1 liter yaras in the wet


  • #65
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,538 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    I'm kind of 50/50 on the full beams, some areas of the motorway fully allow for the full beams where the central reservation is high enough and obviously the common sense element of no car in front of you either. My main concern on an unlit motorway is road debris, I've had a couple of near death experiences with discarded tyres, tyre surrounds from trucks, caravan sunroofs and general debris that if they hit my car I would be off the motorway and I'd be fecked.


  • #66
    ikeano29
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭ikeano29


    chicorytip wrote: »
    The M7, for example, is a dimly lit road to drive at night. I find switching on the foglights provides just enough extra illumination without running the risk of dazzling oncoming drivers.

    Does your back fog light come on to?


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  • #67
    savagethegoat
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    he said the f word !


  • #68
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Like some have said the cat's eyes and reflectors on the median, are enough when just driving with dipped headlights. Rarely use the full on the motorway but it looks like I may have to use them going off what people are saying about unseen/non-reflective objects


  • #69
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Like some have said the cat's eyes and reflectors on the median, are enough when just driving with dipped headlights. Rarely use the full on the motorway but it looks like I may have to use them going off what people are saying about unseen/non-reflective objects

    It is perfectly possible and safe to drive the motorways on dipped lights, otherwise it would be unsafe to drive them in the dark when it's busy when use of full beams is impossible.


  • #70
    RustyNut
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    The worst are the gobsh1ts who for some reason think it's not necessary to dip because they are behind a truck, they are very often the same ones that are happy not to overtake and just sit behind you. Obviously they just don't get that as a truck driver you have a huge amount of mirrors which are not auto dimming, they don't dim at all and are all adjusted perfectly to reflect right in your face.


  • #71
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    RustyNut wrote: »
    The worst are the gobsh1ts who for some reason think it's not necessary to dip because they are behind a truck, they are very often the same ones that are happy not to overtake and just sit behind you. Obviously they just don't get that as a truck driver you have a huge amount of mirrors which are not auto dimming, they don't dim at all and are all adjusted perfectly to reflect right in your face.

    I'm not a truck driver, but driving back from Portmarnock one night I had to stop, get out and ask the guy behind me to turn off his full beams. I was trying to turn right and my car was like the spaceship from Close Encounters I literally couldn't see a thing!


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  • #72
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    I'm not a truck driver, but driving back from Portmarnock one night I had to stop, get out and ask the guy behind me to turn off his full beams. I was trying to turn right and my car was like the spaceship from Close Encounters I literally couldn't see a thing!

    I did the same one night on the bridge in Chapelizod. Your one claimed she didn't know how to turn them off as it was her husbands car. So I reached in and turned them off for her. Lo and behold, her dipped beams weren't working.


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