OH MY GOD - First UK cars are in showrooms and...

370Z Purist · 07-15-2009, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by chubbs

Imagine this - you've just spent hours and hours on Sunday washing and waxing your beautiful black car. You took so long that it's starting to get dark. You decide to jump in the lovely shiny thing and go for a little spin. You turn on the headlights, pull out of the drive and you notice a little speck or smear on the windscreen, so you squirt the windscreen washer and........

....damn, those bl**dy headlamp washers spray crappy screenwash fluid all over your lovely ex-shiny bonnet.

Do you...

a. Say, "Thank the Lord for those very useful European gadgets that no American car is fortunate enough to have." or...

b. Say, "Damn the European legislation that forces our headlights to have those useless stupid things."

? Answers on a postcard, to Fredrik Reinfeldt, President of the European Union, Europe, The World.

What? They don't have their own separate control like a rear window wiper would be like?
Then that's the balls... that sucks.

chubbs · 07-16-2009, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 370Z Purist

What? They don't have their own separate control like a rear window wiper would be like?
Then that's the balls... that sucks.

No - they're a legal requirement over here if you have xenon/bi-xenon headlights, because dirt is supposed to seriously impair their performance (more so than a standard headlamp bulb) - anytime you've got your headlights on they squirt the first time you use the screenwash, then the 10th time, then the 20th, 30th, 40th etc - unless you turn the ignition off, then they squirt the first time again, and so on!!! The only way to prevent them from working is to have the main beam switched off - or disconnect them, which some people do, but you fail the yearly M O T test (Ministry of Transport) if they don't work.

As far as I'm concerned, they're actually quite dangerous because if I'm driving along a dark road I will switch my main beams off if I need to use the screenwash, just so I don't get crap all over the bonnet - even if it means driving in total darkness for a few seconds lol. Yes, it suks!

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