I replaced my set of batteries last year and they had been on the truck for over six years,i will add i have no microwave and no inverters the only thing i use at night is a tv and then not that often.I Also all ways switch the headlights off as soon as i can and just use the sidelights
Professor:
Also all ways switch the headlights off as soon as i can and just use the sidelights
I was under the impression that the sidelights are just marker/position lights, and as such are only for parking, not for using when driving.
Sidelights cannot be seen through heavy spray etc. (either in the mirrors or by oncoming traffic).
If you need lights on, you need headlights on, or you don’t need lights on at all, in which case just switch them off.
Sorry i did not explain very well, I always have my headlights on in bad weather or poor light what i ment was when sitting in a que down the dock or in a yard or something similer were you are not moving i then use the sidelights
nvHerman:
If you need lights on, you need headlights on, or you don’t need lights on at all, in which case just switch them off.
Wrong;
"The (still current) Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations, 1989 tightened the requirements further. Lighting-up time is retained as the required period for use of motor vehicle headlights on roads without lit streetlights, but with that exception, all vehicles must now keep conspicuity lights lit during the longer period of sunset to sunrise (unless parked, either in a designated parking place or facing the same way as adjacent traffic and more than 10 m from the nearest junction on a road with a speed limit not exceeding 30 mph). The conspicuity lights required are “front and rear position lamps” (side and tail lights) plus, for large vehicles, side marker lamps and end-outline marker lamps and, for motor vehicles, rear number plate lights.!
Ross.
Hi Ross,
OK, I understand the position with regard to non street-lit roads being an exception to requiring headlights, but why do so many drivers (of all vehicle types: cars, buses, lorries, whichever) run with only sidelights on national speed limited roads in poor light conditions (mist, rain, spray)?
The conspicuity lamps are nowhere near as effective as headlamps in the above scenario, so why are headlamps not used? I understand from your post that it’s not compulsory, but would seem like common sense (to me at least).
Kind regards,
Dave
Of course that ridiculous law is still in force whereby you don’t have to have headlights on at night if on a road which has lit street lighting:-
direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTr … /DG_070302
nvHerman:
… but why do so many drivers…run with only sidelights on national speed limited roads in poor light conditions (mist, rain, spray)?
Because they are stupid, thick, retarded idiots who don’t or can’t think of others.
I nearly took out a silver/grey car this morning on the A30 in thick rain. They were heaving on with no lights whatsoever! I looked, indicated for half a dozen flashes and then slowly moved over, first I knew of them was the flash of full beam, prat.