From: Adrian on 17 Nov 2009 05:27 "Oily" <martinhill100(a)nospambtconnect.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > Admittedly we don't get fogs that really require them now. You might not.
From: kenney on 17 Nov 2009 06:19 In article <cfo2g5pbp79vqf3hqosppv50k2ejlp84q3(a)4ax.com>, austinDITCHTHISFORBETTERRESULTS(a)ddol-las.net (Austin Shackles) wrote: > I want legislation to make it impossible to use both > at once, and to bring fog lights into the MOT checks Front fog lamps possibly but on motorway driving in poor visibility I use dipped headlights and a rear fog light mainly because I do not want to be rammed up the rear by an artic. There is also the point that I have found that in thick fog I can see better on dipped headlights than on full beam anyway. the whole point of front fog lamps is that they should be mounted low enough so that back scatter does not affect the driver. Ken Young
From: kenney on 17 Nov 2009 06:19 In article <hdrplb$mho$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid (Krusty) wrote: > another car won't be closing at any sort of > speed so will still see your rear lights. I would not care to stake my life on that, especially on a motorway. Ken Young
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 17 Nov 2009 06:27 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Krusty <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> typed > >No I don't, I buy insurance because the law requires me to. I don't buy >insurance because a crane might fall on my car, or I might get hit by a >meteor, or a falling tree, or a badger that someone's launched from a >trebuchet That happened to me once. Although I'm not totally sure it was a badger. It might have been a penguin. It was going pretty fast. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" can you see the light of need shinin' in my eye?
From: Krusty on 17 Nov 2009 06:41
kenney(a)cix.compulink.co.uk wrote: > In article <hdrplb$mho$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid (Krusty) wrote: > > > another car won't be closing at any sort of > > speed so will still see your rear lights. > > I would not care to stake my life on that, especially on a motorway. So you happily dazzle other people to satisfy your unfounded paranoia. -- Krusty '03 Tiger 955i '02 MV Senna '96 Tiger (for sale) '79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale) |