If you drive with dipped you cannot see enough of the road ahead to be safe !!
that’s my pennies worth
orys:
As we are on adjustments: I bet that most of the car drivers don’t know that they have this switch to adjust headlight position when loaded…
My car should have automatic adjusters as they are of the brighter type Xenon or summit but both adjusters are broken, design fault… so they are fixed in position with string but still pas the MOT and the main dealer says the only way to rectify that is to buy new units but at over £700 each. no way, also on a recent trip across the water I spent about an hour or so freeing up the switches that alters the beams from driving on the left to the right, then realised all my driving would be done in daylight.
G8YMW:
Sam Millar, has your motor got a control on the dash to alter the height/angle of the headlights? My Shoggie Sport is set to 2 notches down from the highest setting (Funnily I could see better than when it was on top setting). My last car I changed a bulb and found it “Pigeon spotting” even on dip. Took it out and put it back in carefully, end of problem.
Yes, too many Bosnian Motorbikes on the roads nowadays.
Whats the crack with driving on side lights only? Especially in fog?
This is yet another of my pet hates! Don’t the offending drivers realise that you need lights on in fog to be SEEN, not to see! If we changed the name of these useless lights to what they really are, ie PARKING lights, then maybe that would work.
When I learned to drive way back in the 1950s, my instructor told me that if you need lights, then you need dipped headlights. Side lights on a moving vehicle are totally useless! 