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"Tim C." wrote in message ... On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:18:13 +0530, William Black wrote in post : : The lights will need to be modified to meet European standards on arrival and you may need the car testing, I don't think that's necessary for a temporary import is it? Dunno. I've never seen US style white indicators on a car in the UK, even ones showing US license plates. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |
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On Feb 20, 6:23*am, Mike wrote:
Bert Hyman wrote: The worse thing about US cars IME is that stupid flashing "stop" light pretending to be an indicator light. What? stop tail lights that flash as indicators, jive seen them on US cars in England, so probably legal? What is a "stop tail light that flash as indicators"? Frankly I have no idea what you are talking about. When you press on the brake pedal, red lights come on, but they don't flash. There are emergency flashing lights when you press the emergency button. But they can be on whether you are stopped or moving. So I have no idea what you are talking about. -- Mike Travel broadens the mind? |
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"Mike" kirjoitti om... PeterL wrote: What is a "stop tail light that flash as indicators"? Frankly I have no idea what you are talking about. When you press on the brake pedal, red lights come on, but they don't flash. on some US cars, the indicators and just the rear lights going on and off, crap idea IMHO. -- Stop drinking and then it stops blinking. |
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tim..... wrote: "Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ... "Tim C." wrote in message ... On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:18:13 +0530, William Black wrote in post : : The lights will need to be modified to meet European standards on arrival and you may need the car testing, I don't think that's necessary for a temporary import is it? At the very least you need to ensure the headlights dip to the correct side of the road. The worse thing about US cars IME is that stupid flashing "stop" light pretending to be an indicator light. Whether this needs to be changed, I have no idea. ????? "Flashing stop light"? I've been driving (mostly) American cars all my life, and the only way my stop lights "flash" is if I pump the brake pedal to MAKE them do so when some idiot behind me seems disinclined to stop! (Or are you referring to the "hazard" lights? I think the rear red light flashes, too, when they are engaged.) |
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Mike wrote: wrote: then to Europe with our car. Does anybody know if it is possible to find a way to travel by a ship which would also take our car? is it important to use your US car? The OP mentioned "retracing a family legend vacation", so one assumes the "legend" included driving their American car in Europe as well as across the U.S. (That would make it "important" to them, if not earth-shakingly so.) |
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:40:43 +0000, Mike wrote:
PeterL wrote: What is a "stop tail light that flash as indicators"? Frankly I have no idea what you are talking about. When you press on the brake pedal, red lights come on, but they don't flash. on some US cars, the indicators and just the rear lights going on and off, crap idea IMHO. I've never seen a car thus equipped in the US. But you can buy brake light flashers for motorcycles from several sources, and many bikers swear by them. Most flash five or so times at 2Hz or so, then stay solidly on. -- Larry |
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"Bert Hyman" wrote in message ... In wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:40:43 +0000, Mike wrote: PeterL wrote: What is a "stop tail light that flash as indicators"? Frankly I have no idea what you are talking about. When you press on the brake pedal, red lights come on, but they don't flash. on some US cars, the indicators and just the rear lights going on and off, crap idea IMHO. I've never seen a car thus equipped in the US. But you can buy brake light flashers for motorcycles from several sources, and many bikers swear by them. His explanation's a little hard to understand if you've never seen a car so (un)equipped. American cars traditionally had only a single red lamp (or multiple bulbs wired together) on each side of the car which served the combined purposes of night-time tail lights, brake lights and turn signals. Normally, the lamps are off. When the brakes are applied, both the left- and right-side lamps are lit at high brightness. When the turn signals are activated, the lamp on the selected side turns on at high brightness and off periodically. When the headlights are on, both rear lamps are lit at moderate brightness, going to high brightness when either the brakes are applied or the turn signals are activated. Starting sometime in the past few decades, many cars have been equipped with separate lamps for turn signals, usually colored orange, retaining the combined tail light and brake light functions in another lamp, but lots are still made with just the single multi-function lamp. well explained. I suspect that the ones with multiple lenses are the Jap ones that have to have that configuration to sell in Europe. The US ones that don't sell at all in Europe will be the ones that still have the single lens. tim |
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Bert Hyman writes:
American cars traditionally had only a single red lamp (or multiple bulbs wired together) on each side of the car which served the combined purposes of night-time tail lights, brake lights and turn signals. Normally, the lamps are off. When the brakes are applied, both the left- and right-side lamps are lit at high brightness. When the turn signals are activated, the lamp on the selected side turns on at high brightness and off periodically. When the headlights are on, both rear lamps are lit at moderate brightness, going to high brightness when either the brakes are applied or the turn signals are activated. The last thing to be mentioned is that this system offers one significant advantage over the one used in Europe and on some American cars, where all turn signals are yellow. When it's dark and you see a turn signal flashing some distance ahead of you, if the rear-facing turn signals are red, then you know immediately whether this one is on a car facing toward you or not. On the other hand, it also has a significant disadvantage: it means that while the turn signal is flashing, that lamp cannot also indicate whether the brakes are on. But the adoption of center brake lights has helped ameloriate this. -- Mark Brader | "And so it went. Tens of thousands of messages, Toronto | hundreds of points of view. It was not called the | Net of a Million Lies for nothing." --Vernor Vinge My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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On 2009-02-20, Mark Brader wrote:
The last thing to be mentioned is that this system offers one significant advantage over the one used in Europe and on some American cars, where all turn signals are yellow. When it's dark and you see a turn signal flashing some distance ahead of you, if the rear-facing turn signals are red, then you know immediately whether this one is on a car facing toward you or not. You can't tell this by the big white headlights versus the small red rear lights? |
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