NEW FIAT 500 FORUMS / Day time running lights...
19th November 2008, 06:45 PM
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Day time running lights...
hi, over the past few months ive noticed many a 500 running around with the day time running lights off.... i leave mine on... i recon owners should leave them on so other folk get used to the lights... they make the 500 so much more visable to others.... slim...
 
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20th November 2008, 09:55 AM
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You'll probably find people pull out in front of you at junctions less too. In my old MINIs I figured that when I had my lights on people would not pull out of me on Milton Keynes' main roads (60 -70 mph) when with the lights off they would do so much more frequently! Strange but true.
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20th November 2008, 07:51 PM
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drl...
do you think there is a risk of other motorists thinking the 500 day time running lights look like a headlamp flash...? may be thats why folk leave them off? when are they standard on all vehicles? slim.
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21st November 2008, 09:39 AM
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I turned mine off as they are pants IMHO. Will turn them back on when my replacement (aftermarket bulbs) are delivered.
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21st November 2008, 01:03 PM
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Is it legal to drive without lights switched on in daytime in the UK? Here we would have been pulled over by the police and given a ticket if we did that
It`s illegal to sell a new car in Norway without daytime runninglights.....The only exeption is vintage cars with 6volts electric systems...I thought it was the same rules all over the EU  Sweden has got the same rules as we got in Norway....
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21st November 2008, 02:13 PM
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Daytime running lights are still pretty much an alien concept in this bright, sunny, long daylight hours island we live on (?!), but they're becoming more common, and will, I can't recall when, become a legal requirement on all new cars, but I don't think it will be a legal require to actually use them, even then.
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22nd November 2008, 10:37 PM
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DRL - daylight running lights
I put my DRL's on as soon as i got the car, and have been left on.
I have not yet been flashed by anyone, or have yet to be stopped by the police mistaking them for fogs. On the other forum I am on, I saw a thread that MY2009 all new cars must have DRL's BUT its not illegal to leave them off, there are some european countries where if a car has them they MUST be on.
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23rd November 2008, 12:38 PM
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2009, thought it was 2010, but at least I got the must be fitted but don't HAVE to be on bit right.
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23rd November 2008, 01:43 PM
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We had this debate a while back. I switched mine off ask I got flashed loads and people kept telling me I had my fog lamps on (even my mates that are quite savvy about cars) just thought it would be less hastle to have them off. I personlally dont like the look of them on during the day and I havent had anyone pull out on me yet. Oh tell a lie, only once my indicator clicks off on a right turn too early and a lady wasnt paying attention as she was going hell for leather towards the round about. Nothing to do with the lights though. x
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Last edited by bexx; 23rd November 2008 at 01:45 PM.
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