Date:         Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:19:04 -0800
Reply-To:     Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The final answer on the "city light" debate
Comments: To: Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com>
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dear lamp lighters and guide-on

the 1989 California we own has a very interesting feature regarding lights
if i get out of the vehicle without shutting the lights off a very non
bright light is on in the outside upper corner
it is enough to cause absolutely every one to come and tell me my lights
have been left on

if i try to start it with the switch in the on position -- like when i turn
the key to pre heat ... demanding power--
the lights come on to full intensity

well it turns out this is some sort of disabled vehicle safety idea --
so i have been told
interestingly enough some one sent me an original brochure copy for our
vanagon
and the front port side light is featured on the front cover --
and it is on in this quiet upper left corner way i described already ...

also if i were to have my turning signal on when i shut down--
then the lamp in that side's head light  lights up ...
as if this quiet upper corner light were sleeping with one eye open ..
as it were
 -- i am simply happy that the lights are not Lucas --
which used to be my favorite remark when any vehicle i was around had
persistent head light issues
"ah yes. Lighting by Lucas."
yours


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:

> On 12/11/2008, David Marshall wrote...
>
>> There is no such thing as city light - a urban legend or myth...
>> OK volks...
>>
>
> Meh. Wikipedia is hardly an authoritative "final answer."
>
>   there is no such thing as a separate city light system on a
>> vehicle - parking lights are the same as city lights and it is not
>> legal
>> to use them alone in a city anywhere in Europe now or any ECE
>> complying
>> country.
>>
>
> There _are_ city lights. The term refers to auxiliary bulb installed in
> the headlamps, as opposed to separate lamps. BMW "angel eyes" are a
> current example.
>
> True, due to modern legalities, they come on with the parking lamps on
> current vehicles. But that doesn't prove that was always the case, or
> make them into "urban legends."
>
>
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