How much do you trust an indicator?

JP_ · 2025-12-19T15:17:34+0000

morqthana said:
Also, flashing your headlights is a signal to warn other drivers of your presence, not "you can pull out in front of me".

I also ignore that! Funny how some people get visible upset that you've decided to ignore their invitation to break the highway code and risk pulling out in front of the car that they haven't seen.

morqthana · 2025-12-19T15:18:41+0000

There's one of those 3-way Mexican stand-off roundabouts near me. Fortune favours the brave...

morqthana · 2025-12-19T15:21:50+0000

diy_fun_uk said:
I tend not to fully trust what other vehicles indicators are suggesting they're going to do, unless they're far enough away for me to complete my move regardless of where they're going.

What about, when driving along a road, the person in front of you putting their LH indicator on as an invitation to overtake?

carmanmemoranda · 2025-12-19T16:12:21+0000

Ivor Windybottom said:
Yes, I find it can save a lot of money to pay a higher MOT fee. I'm happy to pay the maximum allowable to my local garage. It's not actually very much for the time and equipment involved, you have to question the motives of those charging less.

Now that is the most sensible thing you've posted

carmanmemoranda · 2025-12-19T16:13:37+0000

Harry Bloomfield said:
The vehicle, has to be logged on the system, and logged off, a fixed amount of time later - an hour later I think.

Close. No absolute set time. But too many, too quickly, will show up

Mottie · 2025-12-19T16:33:21+0000

I forgot to log one off one night, logged it off next day and it didn’t half knock my average test time up.

Mottie · 2025-12-19T16:35:48+0000

carmanmemoranda said:
Close. No absolute set time. But too many, too quickly, will show up

There’s ways to beat that….

carmanmemoranda · 2025-12-19T16:38:17+0000

Mottie said:
There’s ways to beat that….

If you are that type maybe

Mottie · 2025-12-19T16:42:41+0000

I knew someone who, when doing a service and mot on a car at their non mot garage, would leave their card at a mates test station that they were registered at, phone the details through for someone else to log it on for them in their name, then pop down, carry out an emission test, headlamp alignment check and a brake test and be away in minutes with around 40 minutes being recorded for that test. Just sayin…..

carmanmemoranda · 2025-12-19T17:58:14+0000

Mottie said:
I knew someone who, when doing a service and mot on a car at their non mot garage, would leave their card at a mates test station that they were registered at, phone the details through for someone else to log it on for them in their name, then pop down, carry out an emission test, headlamp alignment check and a brake test and be away in minutes with around 40 minutes being recorded for that test. Just sayin…..

It's not done by cards anymore.

Its a 2 stage procedure to log on. Just once in the day. But if there's 2 computers in the garage and you use both you have to log in to each individually. And that shows up too

Ivor Windybottom · 2025-12-19T19:13:40+0000

morqthana said:
What about, when driving along a road, the person in front of you putting their LH indicator on as an invitation to overtake?

That means that you're driving like a prick up their back end even though they're stuck in a convoy or driving at the speed limit, they want you to bugger off and endanger someone else's life.

I do it regularly.

Harry Bloomfield · 2025-12-19T19:30:08+0000

morqthana said:
What about, when driving along a road, the person in front of you putting their LH indicator on as an invitation to overtake?

That means you are driving so close, the driver ahead of you is finding it intimidating. They are trying to encourage you to overtake, and perhaps drive on someone else tail.

Ivor Windybottom · 2025-12-19T20:04:30+0000

Ooh there's an echo. You win on politeness though.

Great minds!

Harry Bloomfield · 2025-12-19T21:13:50+0000

Ivor Windybottom said:
Ooh there's an echo. You win on politeness though.

Great minds!

I was still wading through the discussion, when I began my reply..

Diver Fred · 2025-12-19T23:27:33+0000

diy_fun_uk said:
My 'new' car is 10 years old and is the first I've owned with these auto lights. I can see the logic in this feature, given it's not unusual to see folk driving with no lights on around town when it's dark.

Many other 'features' of modern cars I could do without though.

Whilst I agree mostly with your thoughts I wish that the manufacturers would cause the headlights to be switched off just leaving the parking lights (side lights) on when the handbrake is applied. The amount of school mums (and delivery drivers) who say they don't know where the light switch is when they are parked up with the engine running so they or their children don't get cold when coming out of school. It's so dangerous, particularly when stopped on left hand side of the road to the approaching driver/car. So many people purport to NOT knowing where the lights switch is on the car controls.

How much do you trust an indicator?

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