People who never use Full beam.

[Mr POD]

Following a mini sprite cross country in the dark yesterday and he's using dipped beam.

This is pretty common. It's like they like driving in the half light.

WHY?

[rasputin]

Don't know about him but I don't use my full beam on most left bends or on constantly twisty/hilly roads where I don't get fast enough to need more light.

[andy400]

Bloody annoying if they're slow (which they invariably are) and you want to overtake.....

[Sixpackpert]

Better than driving with full beam and never dipping them!

Thanks to all the twunts on the A46 between Leicester and Bingham last Thursday, my retinas are just about recovered. It seems to be a growing trend on dual carriageways, when they are not busy these tossers on the other carriageway leave their lights on full beam because the central reservation is an impenetrable wall clearly!

Edited by Sixpackpert on Thursday 11th December 11:01

[JagLover]

Not nearly as annoying as people who drive on full beam behind you on dark motorways (It's either that or their headlights are very badly adjusted)

[bull996]

If I know the road and I am going hell for leather, then sometimes i use dipped beams. It allows me to see lights coming from the other direction so i can use the full road.

[wadgebeast]

Tossers. No thought about what they're doing. I think a lot of people either forget the switch is there because the roads are so congested or get fed up having to dip them.

On my old commute home through country B roads I would nearly always run up behind someone doing 40 in a nsl because they weren't using full beam and couldn't see. In order to be able to overtake, I would have to pull out, put my lights on full from behind and to the side of them to ensure the road was clear and then go past them. Bloody infuriating.

[ShadownINja]

wadgebeast said:

Tossers. No thought about what they're doing.

Sums it up for many drivers. No consideration or thinking used. As long as you're not breaking the speed limit, right!

[thegman]

When driving a car with Lucas wiring it is recommended not to use any electrical circuits other than those completely necessary. In my old MG, the lights used to cut out completely for several seconds if I switched to full beam, which was quite fun on twisty roads.

[Heskey]

Had so many morons come at me/drive behind me with full beams on absolutely blinding me.

On a similar note I've also had (again, women) drivers driving around in pitch black with NO lights on.

[feritsbum]

See and be seen is the golden rule . Common sense being the decider !

[scorp]

Quite a lot of backroads near me i drive on whilst never using full beam, mostly because it has so many blind bends and humps it's simply easier to not be flicking it on and off every 15 seconds. Can't see how it can cause anyone aggravation though. Guilty as charged.

[Captain Cadillac]

I use full beam all the time, to hell with the peasantry.

[NiceCupOfTea]

thegman said:

When driving a car with Lucas wiring it is recommended not to use any electrical circuits other than those completely necessary. In my old MG, the lights used to cut out completely for several seconds if I switched to full beam, which was quite fun on twisty roads.

Lucas isn't known as the Prince of Darkness without reason!

[Howitzer]

Have you ever thought that maybe these people have better eyesight than you?

Dave!

[threesixty]

Captain Cadillac said:

I use full beam all the time, to hell with the peasantry.

The rangie is most fun for this, lots of people assume you've got full beam on when infact the lights are dipped, so they flash you. I then give them a taste of full beam and melt their eyeballs

[meloe]

SO its just me then that has no probably not using full beams? Maybe a flash or a flicker of them but i really hate having them on constantly

[Captain Cadillac]

threesixty said:

Captain Cadillac said:

I use full beam all the time, to hell with the peasantry.

The rangie is most fun for this, lots of people assume you've got full beam on when infact the lights are dipped, so they flash you. I then give them a taste of full beam and melt their eyeballs

I had a Rangie Classic that was fantastic for this as well! My old 93 County LWB (Vogue LSE) that we called "Piler" it had the requisite Rhino Bar on the front (To guard against the Rhinos you find in Florida shopping malls) to which I mounted a couple of zillion candlepower Hella round spotlights.

What's better was my mechanic also wired them to the high beam flash relay. Great fun indeed.

[ZR1cliff]

Sixpackpert said:

Better than driving with full beam and never dipping them!

Thanks to all the twunts on the A46 between Leicester and Bingham last Thursday, my retinas are just about recovered. It seems to be a growing trend on dual carriageways, when they are not busy these tossers on the other carriageway leave their lights on full beam because the central reservation is an impenetrable wall clearly!

Leaving full beam ON has definitely become a national trend lately, the same with using rear fog lights in rain - w**kers. Time to get some serious spot lights fitted and give them the old low flying space craft effect.

[Captain Cadillac]

ZR1cliff said:

Sixpackpert said:

Better than driving with full beam and never dipping them!

Thanks to all the twunts on the A46 between Leicester and Bingham last Thursday, my retinas are just about recovered. It seems to be a growing trend on dual carriageways, when they are not busy these tossers on the other carriageway leave their lights on full beam because the central reservation is an impenetrable wall clearly!

Leaving full beam ON has definitely become a national trend lately, the same with using rear fog lights in rain - w**kers. Time to get some serious spot lights fitted and give them the old low flying space craft effect.

Oh that's nothing, you ought to see us Yanks try and use rear fog lights. "Oh look, my car has fog lights, let's turn them on".

Bastids.