

| Subject: | Re: City Lights |
| From: | Kent Christensen |
| Date: | Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:41:34 -0700 |
re: I believe another term for 'city lights' is day time running lamps No, not the same concept. The 5w bulb is not enough and is in any event the only thing there is for what we call in USA parking lamps. The orange units have single filament bulbs on Euro Vanagons (Transporters) for turn signal only. Daytime running lamps are a Canadian concept also adopted in USA by GM, Volvo, and VW to rationalize North American production. Headlamp filaments are used, sometimes at lower voltage. I'm uncertain, but the equivalent of daytime running lamps may be used somewhere in Scandanavia as well, and the original concept had to do with lots of snow, sun low in the sky--northern latitude stuff. We motorcyclists in the USA hate them because we become invisible again as more cars have lights on in the daytime. I make Saturn and other GM owners see my brights when I meet them on a city street in daylight to protest GM's stupidly using the highbeams for these lights. Hope my Vanagon's Hella H4s, mounted high, help them see me coming. Can't wait 'til I get my SA grille installed.
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