Date:         Sat, 3 Feb 2001 13:04:14 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Rear-facing halogens
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I got sick of being followed by morons who refused to dip their lights,
especially those who would sit on your tail with no intention of
overtaking.

So eventually I bolted a 50W foglight (white, threw a wide powerful beam,
had used it on my RD350 bike as a low-beam for a year) on the right end of
my 12V 66 Kombi's back bumper, to shine directly back at the following
driver (RHD, remember). I had a switch on the steering column. Worked
really well as a reversing light!

One night a twit in an Accord came up behind me and sat for many km with
high beam going. No amount of flashing the brakelights got the message
across, so I switched the fog on. There's no way he could have seen
anything else than this light after that, yet he remained stuck to my tail
at 60-70mph for a long while after that! Maybe he was using me as a
cop-shield, as the speed limit was 80kmh (50mph) at the time, back in 1987
or so.

Some people...

I will probably mount a set of small high-intensity QHs as extra reversing
lights on the Caravelle eventually.


Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
fax 64 (3) 479-7527
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
VW van, Toyota diesel & mollusc nut
Macintosh 7500/200/64, 6116/60/24