Indicators on cars
- Thread starter Buckman
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- Nov 11, 2009
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It’s not just you it’s a trend. Amongst the first that I noticed were Passat where the rear lights were a round cluster and when in bright sunlight or if braking lights came on the indicator got less visible. Since the other makes have got even worse. Form over function
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Yes, one particular car (could be a Vauxhall) has the rear indicator so close to the (very bright) brake light that you can hardly see it if the car is braking and indicating at the same time.
- Nov 16, 2015
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I think they are optional extras on BMW and Audi's
- Jan 20, 2023
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No, I have one and they're standard. However, they're for ornamental use only!!!!
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One of my older cars is American and the indicators are the same as they used to be here many moons ago, clear at the front and red at the rear. The rear ones are actually the brake lights that flash on/off depending which side is used but at the front the sidelight flashes, not easy to see especially when negotiating a roundabout. I've swapped them to switchback LED's so they now flash orange when indicating. I've had more than one person pull up next to me to tell me that my rear indicators are faulty!
- Nov 11, 2009
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Even if the indicators sensed brain activity there would be many instances when they do not work to inform other drivers.
- Jul 18, 2017
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I remember them on the Morris Minors that our grand father used to drive and also the Jeep Station Wagon(estate)
I remember them well and without much love, having to bang the inside body, either your side or your passengers to get them to go out; some things have improved.
The indicators on our much loved older Defenders and earlier Land Rovers, could not have got much smaller and still have housed the bulbs of the day!
I recall Mel writing some time ago that many drivers don't top up their indicator fluid.
I'm pretty sure that about the time I took my test, and the guy with the red flag walking in front had become redundant, I still had to use hand signals..... not gestures that is👈👉👎👍
I'm pretty sure that about the time I took my test, and the guy with the red flag walking in front had become redundant, I still had to use hand signals..... not gestures that is👈👉👎👍
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Might I suggest that as there is a fairly strong response to this topic that as well as commenting here you actually write to the car manufacture to alert them to these issues.
- Jun 16, 2020
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I was also required to do hand signals on my test. Not nice as it was during a heavy hail storm.
I took it in my dad’s Corsair mk1. One of the first cars with eyeball vents. They were adjusted to blow warm air. With hail bouncing off my face, I turned to see the examiner warming his hands next to the vent.
But nevermind, I passed.
John
- Nov 16, 2015
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Hand signal, inside, the car to indicate left to a Policeman, or the rotating arm outside to indicate left.
- Jul 18, 2017
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Then you must have missed the UK's massive freeze of early 1947 we certainly knew about freezing things then, no mains water, for up to months in some rural areas.
Then, most winters we also woke up with frozen bedroom windows.
- Jul 18, 2017
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To us it was cold when the temperature dropped down to 11C in the winter however we had a coal fire to keep warm at nights.
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My mate in Anchorage, Alaska, leaves one SUV pick up running overnight when he is out hunting for 2 weeks at a time.
- Jul 18, 2017
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Is that in case there is an earthquake and he can get away quickly? 🤣
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