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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)