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P.S. said:as my cars (U.S.A.) all have RED indicators !!!
securespark said:P.S. said:as my cars (U.S.A.) all have RED indicators !!!
They do red ones....
What? The one in Isleworth? Drove past there the other day and there was a guy on the forecourt ranting to a suit. Was that you??????
mildmanneredjanitor said:On the new fancy buses we have down here now, they have clusters of LED's which seems like a very good idea to me. No single point of failure etc.
I think this is the way forward.
P.S. said:Problems I have with that, as my cars (U.S.A.) all have RED indicators !!!
P.S. said:What do you mean, "they do red ones" ?
securespark said:.... On that link I posted, they advertise led replacement lamps in red that you can use to replace blown indicator lamps.
AdamW said:P.S. said:Problems I have with that, as my cars (U.S.A.) all have RED indicators !!!
I've wondered about this one in the past: how do you get around this? Are you allowed to keep the flashing-taillights-instead-of-separate-indicators system just so long as you don't have it registered in the UK?
There are some American cars I love: Corvette Stingray being the best (I class the GT40 as English ). But, in my limited experience of current US cars they do seem to be about 10 years behind Euro/Jap car technology. I read on a US car website about how heat reflective glass is just coming into the mainstream in the states, yet it has been commonplace over here for a few years. And one minor detail I noticed in the US is that they don't have repeater lights (it was a long journey ). So no little indicators mounted on the front wings. Now cars are being sold there with the amazing new innovation of... wing mirror mounted repeaters.
AdamW said:We have the same buses here. I regularly take the bus into town when drinking (saves leaving the car there) and have found those fancy buses are even air-conditioned. Plus they have some trick low-rider style hydraulic suspension. But the driver only ever uses that to impress old ladies with zimmer frames, never makes the bus start hopping at the traffic lights.
P.S. said:They had high-level third brake lights 10 years before the UK, so much so that they were illegal and had to be taken off if bringing a vehicle into the UK with one fitted ! It was though they would DAZZEL other drivers !!!
P.S. said:Just had an SUV shipped over, and already had amber indicators, but these had to be changed for "E" marked lenses alse it wouldn't pass it's SVA (SVA - bit like a big MOT, something imports and kit cars have to endure to make sure they meet UK spec and roadworthyness)