city lights

[Kneale Brownson]

Worst thing about daytime running lights is that most of the manufacturers 
employing them didn't have brains enough to also turn on the tail 
lights.  So as it gets dusky out and drivers see they've got some light out 
front, they forget to turn on their main lights, along with the tail lights.


At 05:48 PM 09/24/2001 -0400, TM wrote:

>Lee,
>Why go to all of that trouble? If you want to run city lights, you
>just use your headlamps on parking light position.
>
>If you feel the need to run DRLs, get one of those GM relays and
>install that into your headlamp circuit- you'll be able to run
>your lows as DRLs all the time, if you like.
>
>I personally hate DRLs, so I don't run my lights unless necessary.
>The high-beam DRLs get annoyingly blinding at dusk and people don't
>get it when you flash them. Then again, no one seems to get it when
>you flash them- I pissed a guy off yesterday who was squatting in
>the left lane at 55mph (speed limit 65) with at least a quarter mile
>of free space in front of him- flashed my brights, no response, flashed
>again, no response, switched to main beams on full, after 10 seconds of
>that he pulls over to let me pass, giving me the one-finger salute.
>
>Taka
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
>Behalf Of Lee M. Levitt
>Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:56 PM
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: RE: city lights
>
>
>
>Taka writes:
>
> > I use my city lights
> > in overcast weather and at dawn/dusk for better visibility of my
> > car, which I think is useful, so there really is no practical
> > purpose to using colored bulbs.
> >
>
>I've been in the habit of running *something* in the daytime. Early on, it
>was extra bright side markers on a Volvo, more recently it's H1 or H4 low
>beams. Now that I've got true city lights available (S6 with ecode lamps),
>I'm going to wire them up to a spare fog light switch (relayed, with
>ignition) so I can run them rather than the headlamps during the daytime.
>
>How bright are these lights? Is there a higher wattage bulb that will fit in
>the stock sockets? What is the stock bulb?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Lee
>'95.5 S6 avant
>'96 A6 quattro avant
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