Do you "light up and live"?

[Coolblue80]

Yep, lights on for safety. Company policy at work is that headlights are to be on at all times. I drive a 22t truck & you would think it's invisible some days.
 As for the personal car, as soon as we leave the town limits I throw the lights on. If the weather is crappy I turn them on as soon as I leave the house.
Cheers, Mike.

[Nick74]

I drive with my lights on all the time. The 80 had the auto off thing on all the time so I never really turned them off.

The Pootroll only has a chime to warn you they are on when the door is open and ignition off but I still have the lights on allllllll the time.

It pays to be seen. Every lil bit helps

Cheers
Nick

[becboo]

Yep. I do. Like everyone else with a 100 series I leave them on. In the work ute I have to think about it.

[shanegtr]

for around town stuff I dont bother, but out of the city most definatly. You can see a car coming a lot eariler with headlights on than off, which makes things much easier when your trying to overtake a road train

I cant figure out the fools who drive around the city at night with just parking lights on - what just because the road has street lighting means you dont need your headlights?

[nab]

I used to drive an 07 Toyota Hiace which had the odd feature of turning the dashlights on with ignition. I often thought I had my lights on when they weren't because the dash was lit up!

I'm a lights-on driver too.

[whitey1]

I cant figure out the fools who drive around the city at night with just parking lights on - what just because the road has street lighting means you dont need your headlights?

I can't understand people who drive around with their park lights on at all. PARK lights are for when you are PARKED. Thats why they're called that. They're not driving lights!

[becboo]

I cant figure out the fools who drive around the city at night with just parking lights on - what just because the road has street lighting means you dont need your headlights?

People really do this?   

[HEM19X]

I can't help think that if everybody drove with their lights on all the time, wouldn't this become the NORM & then we wouldn't see them? As it is, those with their lights on stand out.

That said, I do travel with them on as our BT is a dark colour.

HOWEVER, I do wish that those Numb Nuts that drive with their FOG lights on during the day would get more attention from the police.

[Desert lover]

We do put the lights on all the time.... the Pulsar (town car) is quite small so gives us hope that we will be more easily seen most of the time and the Troll is Burgundy so its a must on that vehicle which seems to blend with the surrounds very easily.

I have the reverse problem which is people driving in a residential area at night with their high beam on. If you can't see slow down don't put your high beam on

Briefly: In Victoria you can  but must dip the headlights at the approach of another vehicle.  In the more rural areas then must dip at 200 metres or when the approaching vehicle dips theirs...  I'm sure Donuts will correct me if there has been a change in the legislation since I retired....
I also agree with the HID lights - mongrels for drivers of oncoming vehicles like the little pulsar!!! 

[Tjupurula]

We always drive with our lights on, and if the dust is too bad, I will put my top spotlights on, allowing oncoming vehicles to see that someone is on the other side of the dust.  I did have to go quickly off the road a couple of weeks ago, when a clown came through the dust of a road train, there is no way the driver could have seen through that dust.
Night driving around the Tanami at the moment is not a good idea, as the dust seems to be hanging around for a long time.
Tjupurula

[Pirate_Pete]

Our black Kia Sorento has the auto lights off feature so we tend to leave them on all the time.

In my old Hilux I had my fog lights set up with a 3 position switch,  Park lights, off, High Beam.  That way when I needed them in the fog they came on with the park lights & worked as they are meant to but out in the twisty windy roads I could have them on with high beam so they lit up the edges of the road & into corners better.

I quite often found the fog lights were better in city traffic as I had a lift kit on the Hilux & the normal low beam went straight in the back windows of most cars, flick the switch down to park & run the fogs & the problem disappeared.

[D4D]

Briefly: In Victoria you can  but must dip the headlights at the approach of another vehicle.  In the more rural areas then must dip at 200 metres or when the approaching vehicle dips theirs...

No good if I am walking along the footpath. I took my P7 with me one night and returned fire. The driver stopped and said WTF, I said don't drive with your high beam on moron

[Maîneÿ . . .]

No good if I am walking along the footpath.
I took my P7 with me one night and returned fire.
The driver stopped and said WTF,  I said don't drive with your high beam on moron

You were WALKING on the footpath, and you focused a P7 onto a car that's driving towards you 
He possibly did not even see you on the footpath till you shone your light at him, no wonder he stopped and 'talked' to you

I'm impressed (not) 

[JCOJ]

I have mine on 24/7.

Even during the day it is so much easier to spot someone if they have their lights on.

I think it should be compulsory - like it is in Sweden!

[Barrabart]

Really is great to see all of us myswag members setting a great example on the road......... Light up and live!!

[shanegtr]

In regards to WA use of fog lights, this is what the law says

ROAD TRAFFIC CODE 2000 - REG 183
183 .         Using fog lights
        (1)         The driver of a vehicle fitted with a front or rear fog light shall not operate the front or the rear fog light unless the driver is driving in fog or other hazardous weather conditions causing reduced visibility.


        Points: 1         Modified penalty: 2 PU


        (2)         In fog or mist or in hazardous weather conditions restricting visibility, the display of light from a front fog light or front fog lights is sufficient compliance with any obligation to display a light from a head light or head lights under regulation 182.


        (3)         A person shall not drive a motor vehicle, other than a motor cycle, displaying light from a single front fog light, unless 2 lit lights, complying with the requirements of the Vehicle Standards, are fitted to the front of the vehicle.


        Points: 1         Modified penalty: 2 PU


        (4)         A person shall not drive a motor vehicle displaying light from a front fog light or front fog lights, if any other light of a power exceeding 7 watts and capable of showing a white light to the front is alight.


        Points: 1         Modified penalty: 2 PU


        [Regulation 183 amended in Gazette 22 Dec 2006 p. 5820.]

So in relation to point 4 - use of fog lights is fine if you run them without the main headlights (thats the way I see it anyway)

[whitey1]

You were WALKING on the footpath, and you focused a P7 onto a car that's driving towards you 
He possibly did not even see you on the footpath till you shone your light at him, no wonder he stopped and 'talked' to you

I'm impressed (not) 

x2

[becboo]

In regards to WA use of fog lights, this is what the law saysSo in relation to point 4 - use of fog lights is fine if you run them without the main headlights (thats the way I see it anyway)

In my case. I really don't mind. Provided you are visible. That is the problem the majority don't have lights on up here. In dusty conditions it's best to have them on in daylight.

[Maîneÿ . . .]

Checked up on the Ssangyong website and the 'lights' in question are called "Integrated front fog lamps" 
They do come on with-out the headlights being on, so maybe they are 'legal'   

[Big Nath]

i too travel with lights on. the one thing that p!sses me off more than cars not using their lights during periods of low light is when TRUCKS do the same. i dont care how many LED clearance lights you have up the side, but if im coming toward you at 110km/h id like to see you. Where i am, if you drive around town at night, you need to use high beam. the young indigionab breatherand like to walk/ride bikes/play chicken/throw bottles in the middle of the road and WONT move. Its nice to see them first.


D4D, try some hi vis gear mate, or better still dont stare at the lights.