Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:36:38 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: Some good info about E-code headlamps & "City Lights"
I've been told (and I have no reason to believe or to disbelieve it) that it
is illegal to use your headlights within the city of Paris. That is what
city lights are for. They allow your car to be seen, and the streetlights
are for you to see by. Headlights are for out in the country.
Karl Wolz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Steven Fish" <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Some good info about E-code headlamps & "City Lights"
> snipped----
> I thought European city lights were for use at night in the city
> end snipped---------
>
> Nope... that I have NEVER seen here, in any of the cities I have been in.
> In Austria you would most likely get a ticket.
>
> But one fun thing that we do here with our "city lights" is to park
> somewhere kooky, in pitch black darkness, like on a corner, or near an
> entrance... and we turn the car off, but leave the blinker ON for the side
> where our car is sticking out in possible traffic.
>
> That way the "city light" glows on the front corner, and a tail light on
the
> rear corner.. and hopefully nobody slams you because they didn't see your
> tail or nose sticking out.
>
> And speaking of driving with your "city lights" on at night... last year I
> was in Egypt, and the people all drove there with their lights.. OFF..
yes,
> turned off, at night (granted, there were street lights illuminating the
> roads there). It was rather alarming to see though, and I asked a few
> locals and they said that the drivers save money by not having to buy the
> bulbs so often. Whether this is true or not (insane, if you ask me) there
> were taxis, and trucks, and passenger cars.. all zooming around with no
> lights on.
>
> RSF
>
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>
> Robert S. Fish
> Salzburg, Austria
> 1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
> 1987 Golf Cabriolet
> 1991 Golf
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Stann" <ChrisS@INFORMS.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Some good info about E-code headlamps & "City Lights"
>
>
> > >How about city lights? What is a city light? It's a European-type
> parking
> > >lamp, a small 5W bulb sticks through a grommet in the lamp's reflector
> into
> >
> > I thought European city lights were for use at night in the city, where
> > adequate street lighting made headlamps unnecessary. You turn on the
> 'city
> > lights' to keep from blinding oncoming traffic with your headlamps, yet
> > people can easily spot your car because the headlights are glowing.
Once
> > out of the street lights you turn your regular headlights back on.
> >
> > Could I be wrong?
> >
> > Chris.
> >
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