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badjak said:
Lights on during daytime is standard in the Netherlands.
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I don’t know if it’s mandatory here, but it’s been standard practice here since the ‘90’s or so, and since then, just about any new car sold has automatic daytime running lights - they’re not your full headlights and taillights, but a smaller subset of lights, just to say, “Hello, here I am!”

I remember the transition well, because I was living close to Canada at the time, and headlights on during the day was already a thing there, so that was always one way you could identify a visiting car from Canada - lights on at high noon, and when DTRL’s first showed up on US cars, there was actually quite a bit of backlash from some folks - “This ain’t Canada, dammit!” but now they’re the standard and no one complains and they’ve gotten almost artistic in their display - the car we just bought, the DTRL’s consist of just the outline of the headlight housing.
 
Barriehie said:
Whoa! I'm 6 miles from anything resembling fast food, coffee, or fuel so I've got to have my wheels.
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We've got a small, local grocery store in our neighbourhood which is about a kilometer away; but it's all uphill so it's quite an effort to get there. However, since the owners live about 4 houses down from me, I just give them a call and the pick me up then take me home. Wonderful people!
 
TastyReuben said:
I don’t know if it’s mandatory here, but it’s been standard practice here since the ‘90’s or so, and since then, just about any new car sold has automatic daytime running lights - they’re not your full headlights and taillights, but a smaller subset of lights, just to say, “Hello, here I am!”

I remember the transition well, because I was living close to Canada at the time, and headlights on during the day was already a thing there, so that was always one way you could identify a visiting car from Canada - lights on at high noon, and when DTRL’s first showed up on US cars, there was actually quite a bit of backlash from some folks - “This ain’t Canada, dammit!” but now they’re the standard and no one complains and they’ve gotten almost artistic in their display - the car we just bought, the DTRL’s consist of just the outline of the headlight housing.
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It's been standard here on all new build cars for a while, prob a safety thing.

I once had a Ford, forget the model, but I named it squirrel - it used to like to hibernate in winter (ie not start) :speechless:
 
AdaptAndAchieve said:
It's been standard here on all new build cars for a while, prob a safety thing.

I once had a Ford, forget the model, but I named it squirrel - it used to like to hibernate in winter (ie not start) :speechless:
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My Ford had the opposite problem.
She had an automatic choke and once she was warm, if you put your foot on the clutch, she stall irrespective of speed, location or anything else, but not in winter.
I got very good at changing gear without the clutch in the manual, such to the point that even today I find myself off the clutch before I've actually put the vehicle into gear. It was the only way of not having to restart the engine at 70mph on the right hand lane of a busy motorway.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
My Ford had the opposite problem.
She had an automatic choke and once she was warm, if you put your foot on the clutch, she stall irrespective of speed, location or anything else, but not in winter.
I got very good at changing gear without the clutch in the manual, such to the point that even today I find myself off the clutch before I've actually put the vehicle into gear. It was the only way of not having to restart the engine at 70mph on the right hand lane of a busy motorway.
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I had an old truck kind of like that. I only used the clutch to start and stop.
 
TastyReuben said:
I’m calling it Swamp Thing, but MrsT may change that. :laugh:
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I love it. You can whisper it under your breath and see how she (the car) reacts! I can just see you and the missus toodling through the hilly parts of Pennsylvania and going up a hill and you muttering (like a gambling addict at the race track), "C'mon Swamp Thing, c'mon!"
 
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