How? How do ALL your bulbs break and you never notice?
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I was driving home from work the other night. Dark it was, so imagine my surprise when I saw this shadow coming towards me along a rural single-carriageway A road... Initialy fearing I'd stumbled into some Dungeons and Dragons parallel universe, braced myself for the dragon that was about to lift my car, fly to Mordor or some other grim s
thole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on...
So what happened here? How the fk does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them.
If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their fking lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.
thole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on... So what happened here? How the f
k does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them. If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their f
king lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.Papa Hotel said:
I was driving home from work the other night. Dark it was, so imagine my surprise when I saw this shadow coming towards me along a rural single-carriageway A road... Initialy fearing I'd stumbled into some Dungeons and Dragons parallel universe, braced myself for the dragon that was about to lift my car, fly to Mordor or some other grim sthole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on...
So what happened here? How the fk does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them.
If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their fking lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.
kinell chill out bellend. Maybe a problem occured on that drive that caused the lights to fail (unlikely but possible) It cant have been that dark and dangerous if you could tell the car and colour.thole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on... So what happened here? How the f
k does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them. If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their f
king lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.Go and have a w
k or somethingPig Skill said:
Papa Hotel said:
I was driving home from work the other night. Dark it was, so imagine my surprise when I saw this shadow coming towards me along a rural single-carriageway A road... Initialy fearing I'd stumbled into some Dungeons and Dragons parallel universe, braced myself for the dragon that was about to lift my car, fly to Mordor or some other grim sthole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on...
So what happened here? How the fk does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them.
If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their fking lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.
kinell chill out bellend. Maybe a problem occured on that drive that caused the lights to fail (unlikely but possible) It cant have been that dark and dangerous if you could tell the car and colour.thole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on... So what happened here? How the f
k does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them. If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their f
king lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.Go and have a w
k or something
matc said:
Pig Skill said:
Papa Hotel said:
I was driving home from work the other night. Dark it was, so imagine my surprise when I saw this shadow coming towards me along a rural single-carriageway A road... Initialy fearing I'd stumbled into some Dungeons and Dragons parallel universe, braced myself for the dragon that was about to lift my car, fly to Mordor or some other grim sthole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on...
So what happened here? How the fk does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them.
If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their fking lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.
kinell chill out bellend. Maybe a problem occured on that drive that caused the lights to fail (unlikely but possible) It cant have been that dark and dangerous if you could tell the car and colour.thole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on... So what happened here? How the f
k does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them. If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their f
king lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.Go and have a w
k or somethingTo Pig Skill, it was dark, I could see because my lights were working. I'm not sure what part of that you couldn't understand. I suppose schoolchildren just don't do a lot of driving, maybe that explains your odd reply.
People in 'don't give a st' shocker. Credit to this guy for putting his lights on at all, so many don't even bother. One nearly did for me last week. On a roundabout with a give way half way around, onto which the main road approached and joined at a tangent, so traffic goes pretty fast. Very foggy, 100ft max visibility, and after I'd waited for a couple of cars to pass I set off then immediately jammed the brakes on. No idea why but I must have subconsciously sensed something because half a second later this turd in a silver 4x4 hoons out of the fog at 60mph, no lights, and disappears again just as quickly. fking total moron. If I'd have set off there was no way they could have avoided me. I was tempted to follow them and educate them in the ways of not being a .
t' shocker. Credit to this guy for putting his lights on at all, so many don't even bother. One nearly did for me last week. On a roundabout with a give way half way around, onto which the main road approached and joined at a tangent, so traffic goes pretty fast. Very foggy, 100ft max visibility, and after I'd waited for a couple of cars to pass I set off then immediately jammed the brakes on. No idea why but I must have subconsciously sensed something because half a second later this turd in a silver 4x4 hoons out of the fog at 60mph, no lights, and disappears again just as quickly. fking total moron. If I'd have set off there was no way they could have avoided me. I was tempted to follow them and educate them in the ways of not being a .Edited by carmonk on Sunday 23 January 20:42
Pig Skill said:
Papa Hotel said:
I was driving home from work the other night. Dark it was, so imagine my surprise when I saw this shadow coming towards me along a rural single-carriageway A road... Initialy fearing I'd stumbled into some Dungeons and Dragons parallel universe, braced myself for the dragon that was about to lift my car, fly to Mordor or some other grim sthole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on...
So what happened here? How the fk does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them.
If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their fking lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.
kinell chill out bellend. Maybe a problem occured on that drive that caused the lights to fail (unlikely but possible) It cant have been that dark and dangerous if you could tell the car and colour.thole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on... So what happened here? How the f
k does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them. If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their f
king lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.Go and have a w
k or somethingt in front of you but others on the road won't see you until its too late. ....pulling out of junction, others pulling out in front of you, not to mention the usual pedestrians (walking dogs, walking home etc). I hug the middle of the road on long rural roads at night. Means I can avoid potholes, things jumping out of the bushes, unkept road edges etc.I worry they let people like him (and probably you) on the roads, it's only asking for trouble!
One of my Osram Nightbreakers went the other day. Due to my work patterns and time of the year, I wasn't able to change it until two days later. I felt an absolute bellend knowing the bulb was out but being unable to fix it.
The only saving grace is that the sidelight on that side was still illuminated due to the headlight configuration. Meant you could still see it was a car coming towards you and not a fking motorbike.
The only saving grace is that the sidelight on that side was still illuminated due to the headlight configuration. Meant you could still see it was a car coming towards you and not a f
king motorbike.Papa Hotel said:
matc said:
Pig Skill said:
Papa Hotel said:
I was driving home from work the other night. Dark it was, so imagine my surprise when I saw this shadow coming towards me along a rural single-carriageway A road... Initialy fearing I'd stumbled into some Dungeons and Dragons parallel universe, braced myself for the dragon that was about to lift my car, fly to Mordor or some other grim sthole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on...
So what happened here? How the fk does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them.
If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their fking lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.
kinell chill out bellend. Maybe a problem occured on that drive that caused the lights to fail (unlikely but possible) It cant have been that dark and dangerous if you could tell the car and colour.thole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on... So what happened here? How the f
k does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them. If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their f
king lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.Go and have a w
k or somethingTo Pig Skill, it was dark, I could see because my lights were working. I'm not sure what part of that you couldn't understand. I suppose schoolchildren just don't do a lot of driving, maybe that explains your odd reply.
I've seen it happen with a relative's car. I reckon the cause was the commute to and from work was done under street lights - so at no point did he actually need headlights to see, and so never clicked they weren't working.
Only spotted when attempting to visit his parents - outside the urban area and immediately noticed - no front lights.
And as for simple to change - quite a lot of cars now don't seem to be. The car in question this tie was a Fiesta - a few years old, but I couldn't see how to change the bulb without tools and removing other parts of the car.
Amusingly the other day on my commute home, in light fog, I spotted a silver car coming towards me on side lights . . . the silver car behind me flashed him . . . and then turned their headlights on. Until then, the one behind hadn't even been on sidelights!
Bri
Only spotted when attempting to visit his parents - outside the urban area and immediately noticed - no front lights.
And as for simple to change - quite a lot of cars now don't seem to be. The car in question this tie was a Fiesta - a few years old, but I couldn't see how to change the bulb without tools and removing other parts of the car.
Amusingly the other day on my commute home, in light fog, I spotted a silver car coming towards me on side lights . . . the silver car behind me flashed him . . . and then turned their headlights on. Until then, the one behind hadn't even been on sidelights!
Bri
Bricol said:
I've seen it happen with a relative's car. I reckon the cause was the commute to and from work was done under street lights - so at no point did he actually need headlights to see, and so never clicked they weren't working.
Only spotted when attempting to visit his parents - outside the urban area and immediately noticed - no front lights.
And as for simple to change - quite a lot of cars now don't seem to be. The car in question this tie was a Fiesta - a few years old, but I couldn't see how to change the bulb without tools and removing other parts of the car.
Amusingly the other day on my commute home, in light fog, I spotted a silver car coming towards me on side lights . . . the silver car behind me flashed him . . . and then turned their headlights on. Until then, the one behind hadn't even been on sidelights!
Bri
Yeah what's up with people driving just with sidelights at night? Even if you're in the city under streetlights with all the window shop reflections and all it sometimes gets really hard to tell if it's a car or not! It does not cost much to turn your lights on and let other people see you. Don't get me started about the sidelights and fogs on brigade cuz they deserve to be shot on sight...Only spotted when attempting to visit his parents - outside the urban area and immediately noticed - no front lights.
And as for simple to change - quite a lot of cars now don't seem to be. The car in question this tie was a Fiesta - a few years old, but I couldn't see how to change the bulb without tools and removing other parts of the car.
Amusingly the other day on my commute home, in light fog, I spotted a silver car coming towards me on side lights . . . the silver car behind me flashed him . . . and then turned their headlights on. Until then, the one behind hadn't even been on sidelights!
Bri
dvance said:
Bricol said:
I've seen it happen with a relative's car. I reckon the cause was the commute to and from work was done under street lights - so at no point did he actually need headlights to see, and so never clicked they weren't working.
Only spotted when attempting to visit his parents - outside the urban area and immediately noticed - no front lights.
And as for simple to change - quite a lot of cars now don't seem to be. The car in question this tie was a Fiesta - a few years old, but I couldn't see how to change the bulb without tools and removing other parts of the car.
Amusingly the other day on my commute home, in light fog, I spotted a silver car coming towards me on side lights . . . the silver car behind me flashed him . . . and then turned their headlights on. Until then, the one behind hadn't even been on sidelights!
Bri
Yeah what's up with people driving just with sidelights at night? Even if you're in the city under streetlights with all the window shop reflections and all it sometimes gets really hard to tell if it's a car or not! It does not cost much to turn your lights on and let other people see you. Don't get me started about the sidelights and fogs on brigade cuz they deserve to be shot on sight...Only spotted when attempting to visit his parents - outside the urban area and immediately noticed - no front lights.
And as for simple to change - quite a lot of cars now don't seem to be. The car in question this tie was a Fiesta - a few years old, but I couldn't see how to change the bulb without tools and removing other parts of the car.
Amusingly the other day on my commute home, in light fog, I spotted a silver car coming towards me on side lights . . . the silver car behind me flashed him . . . and then turned their headlights on. Until then, the one behind hadn't even been on sidelights!
Bri
Negative Creep said:
dvance said:
Bricol said:
I've seen it happen with a relative's car. I reckon the cause was the commute to and from work was done under street lights - so at no point did he actually need headlights to see, and so never clicked they weren't working.
Only spotted when attempting to visit his parents - outside the urban area and immediately noticed - no front lights.
And as for simple to change - quite a lot of cars now don't seem to be. The car in question this tie was a Fiesta - a few years old, but I couldn't see how to change the bulb without tools and removing other parts of the car.
Amusingly the other day on my commute home, in light fog, I spotted a silver car coming towards me on side lights . . . the silver car behind me flashed him . . . and then turned their headlights on. Until then, the one behind hadn't even been on sidelights!
Bri
Yeah what's up with people driving just with sidelights at night? Even if you're in the city under streetlights with all the window shop reflections and all it sometimes gets really hard to tell if it's a car or not! It does not cost much to turn your lights on and let other people see you. Don't get me started about the sidelights and fogs on brigade cuz they deserve to be shot on sight...Only spotted when attempting to visit his parents - outside the urban area and immediately noticed - no front lights.
And as for simple to change - quite a lot of cars now don't seem to be. The car in question this tie was a Fiesta - a few years old, but I couldn't see how to change the bulb without tools and removing other parts of the car.
Amusingly the other day on my commute home, in light fog, I spotted a silver car coming towards me on side lights . . . the silver car behind me flashed him . . . and then turned their headlights on. Until then, the one behind hadn't even been on sidelights!
Bri
Pig Skill said:
Papa Hotel said:
I was driving home from work the other night. Dark it was, so imagine my surprise when I saw this shadow coming towards me along a rural single-carriageway A road... Initialy fearing I'd stumbled into some Dungeons and Dragons parallel universe, braced myself for the dragon that was about to lift my car, fly to Mordor or some other grim sthole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on...
So what happened here? How the fk does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them.
If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their fking lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.
kinell chill out bellend. Maybe a problem occured on that drive that caused the lights to fail (unlikely but possible) It cant have been that dark and dangerous if you could tell the car and colour.thole, possibly Hull, and feed me to its young. It was alright though, it wasn't a big dragon, it was only a green VW Polo. The driver had forgotten to put the headlights on! Silly driver! Then, as I met and passed the fkwit, I realised that the driver had not forgotten their headlights, the tail-lights were on... So what happened here? How the f
k does someone not notice a headlight out? Then, when the one remaining light goes, why do they think to themselves that it's OK to go driving at night? This isn't even the first time I've seen this stupidity either, a year or so ago in NI I saw the same thing. The sidelights weren't even on FFS, four bulbs blown and they didn't ever think to replace them. If any of you lot know someone that travels between Edinburgh and West Lothian in a green Polo, tell them to check their f
king lights then punch them in the fking head if it's the chimp I'm talking about.Go and have a w
k or somethingNo, actually, have another:
Blown bulb? Stop ASAFP and buy/fit a replacement. Two blown bulbs at the same time? Don't drive in the dark until they are fixed. It's quite simple.
One more because of your attitude:
The number of these mongoloids i see around newbury and along the A4 etc.
Is astonishing and there is really no excuse at all!
I have always got a spare of each type of required lamp in all my
cars they are cheap enough and take up little space.
Living in the sticks i would not risk doing otherwise.
But then it is fun waking them up with a flash of 760W of main beam
from the 6 driving lamps and 2 mains on the front of the landy
Is astonishing and there is really no excuse at all!
I have always got a spare of each type of required lamp in all my
cars they are cheap enough and take up little space.
Living in the sticks i would not risk doing otherwise.
But then it is fun waking them up with a flash of 760W of main beam
from the 6 driving lamps and 2 mains on the front of the landy
volvoforlife said:
Some cars, the real st ones like Audis 
its not so easy to replace the bulbs because you have to take the whole headlight unit out which for most people involves a dealer visit. Robbing bds the VAG group.
This is a fair point however it does not excuse allowing it to linger tillt ones like Audis its not so easy to replace the bulbs because you have to take the whole headlight unit out which for most people involves a dealer visit. Robbing bds the VAG group.both have failed or be just to dense to actually switch the dam things on!
I wonder it the advent of "automatic" lighting controls some cars have now
has a bearing on this?
Something else the sheeple don't have to think about eh!
volvoforlife said:
Some cars, the real st ones like Audis its not so easy to replace the bulbs because you have to take the whole headlight unit out which for most people involves a dealer visit. Robbing bds the VAG group.
You can add any modern fords to that too, had to do it with a mates fiestat ones like Audis its not so easy to replace the bulbs because you have to take the whole headlight unit out which for most people involves a dealer visit. Robbing bds the VAG group.Having 2 headlights out at once is very odd, unless he was a barry who had fitted a sick hid kit from china and it melted his looms when he switched them on
Are headlights on separate fuses ?
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