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[richardmorris]

Blue Audi ( May not be this one, as there’s another audi missing wheels too) and Ferrari racing each other, went through the lights just before the Costa and hit the van turning. Two other cars hit out of shot too.

air ambulance, fire engines, police and ambulances. 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

48 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Blue Audi ( May not be this one, as there’s another audi missing wheels too) and Ferrari racing each other, went through the lights just before the Costa and hit the van turning. Two other cars hit out of shot too.

air ambulance, fire engines, police and ambulances. 

Shit! The forces involved must have been massive- looks like the van hit the house after being hit in the side. 

I hope nobody was seriously injured- it is often the case that the cunts that cause these things walk away...

[Fat_Pirate]

Regrettably, I have been involved in another 'incident'.  Thankfully, Chat-GPT has my back:

[Snake Charmer]

2 minutes ago, Fat_Pirate said:

Regrettably, I have been involved in another 'incident'.  Thankfully, Chat-GPT has my back:

You OK though? 

[JakeT]

3 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I take no responsibility if you melt your modern plastic  head lamp housings!

https://www.osram.com/ecat/SUPER BRIGHT PREMIUM - SUPER BRIGHT-Halogen headlight lamps-Car lighting-Automotive/com/en/GPS01_1090070/ZMP_1066359/

I am not attempting to out-bulb LBF, but there's a less housing-melting option available now! OSRAM do a Road Legal (in some countries) drop in LED bulb now:

https://www.osram.com/ecat/NIGHT BREAKER LED SPEED H4 450-LED high and low beam lamps (street legal)-Car lighting-Automotive/com/en/GPS01_35478322/ZMP_4069678/

[richardmorris]

48 minutes ago, Fat_Pirate said:

Regrettably, I have been involved in another 'incident'.  Thankfully, Chat-GPT has my back:

Are you ok?

[LightBulbFun]

30 minutes ago, JakeT said:

I am not attempting to out-bulb LBF, but there's a less housing-melting option available now! OSRAM do a Road Legal (in some countries) drop in LED bulb now:

https://www.osram.com/ecat/NIGHT BREAKER LED SPEED H4 450-LED high and low beam lamps (street legal)-Car lighting-Automotive/com/en/GPS01_35478322/ZMP_4069678/

if you look at the specifications you will see they are no brighter (1000/1600 lumens stated) then a regular H4 bulb and they are a worse 6000K

this is where old sealed beam head lights get a leg up here, those are themselves a standardised size/form-factor, the 7 inch sealed beam in Proper lightbulb terms is PAR56 and so with a small* electrical system upgrade, @IronStar could for "experimental purposes" fit a pair of these 4541 450W Aircraft landing light lamps to his mini with no body modifications needed at all  

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Shit! The forces involved must have been massive- looks like the van hit the house after being hit in the side. 

I hope nobody was seriously injured- it is often the case that the cunts that cause these things walk away...

For reference it is here , well within 30limit ….

[Leyland Worldmaster]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

For reference it is here , well within 30limit ….

Just shouted 'fucking hell!' loudly in response!

Neighbours know I'm mad, innit... anyhoo; that's mental! Could it be that the van was turning right into the Fuel Station?

Goodness knows, however that is insane!

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Just shouted 'fucking hell!' loudly in response!

Neighbours know I'm mad, innit... anyhoo; that's mental! Could it be that the van was turning right into the Fuel Station?

Goodness knows, however that is insane!

Yes, the neighbour with cctv given to the police thinks the van was turning right into costa and punted 50 m into the house,

[Leyland Worldmaster]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

Yes, the neighbour with cctv given to the police thinks the van was turning right into costa and punted 50 m into the house,

Shit. O-to whatever speed the California or Audi was doing- sideways- and a 50 metre flight into a house. 

As an aside, I wonder if people have people have become more reckless\aggressive post covid?

I have the pleasure* of working with the general public, innit...

 

[richardmorris]

Just now, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Shit. O-to whatever speed the California or Audi was doing- sideways- and a 50 metre flight into a house. 

As an aside, I wonder if people have people have become more reckless\aggressive post covid?

I have the pleasure* of working with the general public, innit...

 

They certainly have round here. I used to do 4000miles a year on my bicycle commuting to work, but have cut that right down the last year or so as it’s just too aggravating.

[IronStar]

32 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

if you look at the specifications you will see they are no brighter (1000/1600 lumens stated) then a regular H4 bulb and they are a worse 6000K

this is where old sealed beam head lights get a leg up here, those are themselves a standardised size/form-factor, the 7 inch sealed beam in Proper lightbulb terms is PAR56 and so with a small* electrical system upgrade, @IronStar could for "experimental purposes" fit a pair of these 4541 450W Aircraft landing light lamps to his mini with no body modifications needed at all  

Some relays and a bigger alternator, and it’ll be right 😄

I could also do something silly with Yugo Cabrio as well. It has US-spec front lights, which are H6054 sealed beams, which probably also have interesting upgrade* options? 😄

[Leyland Worldmaster]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

They certainly have round here. I used to do 4000miles a year on my bicycle commuting to work, but have cut that right down the last year or so as it’s just too aggravating.

Glad that you have done that mate. Yesterday, I was put with Alison. Queuing traffic at temp' lights. 

I was watching both mirrors whilst waiting- training innit- and spotted a pedestrian in a rush.

They ran between car behind and Alison and almost got taken out by a pizza delivery rider.

He was on the case. Was fucking close. And the pedestrian- completely ignorant to the heart in mouth moment- just put their hand up as though to say sorry and ran off...

[LightBulbFun]

48 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Some relays and a bigger alternator, and it’ll be right 😄

I could also do something silly with Yugo Cabrio as well. It has US-spec front lights, which are H6054 sealed beams, which probably also have interesting upgrade* options? 😄

im afraid not, there might "off road only" high wattage versions you could get, like the 80W/100W "H4"'s I linked to, but the rectangular sealed beam was produced purely because of fickle car designers and consumers, optically speaking a round reflector/lens is most efficient, so for serious performance applications thats all you will see, so theres no silly Aircraft landing lamp you can put in the place of a US rectangular sealed beam

 

honestly thats one of the things I find most perplexing about LED headlights, as I have demonstrated, theres no reason, one cannot have stupid bright incandescent/halogen head lamps, if you wanted to, but the reason we dont, is for practical safety reasons, the reason H4 bulbs are what they are is a trade off between performance for the person behind the wheel, vs not glaring everyone else coming the other way off the road

 

so I have genuinely been quite perplexed as to why modern LED head lights have been allowed to be so bad in that regard, theres no reason they *have* to be that bad, and yet here we are...

 

[IronStar]

10 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

im afraid not, there might "off road only" high wattage versions you could get, but the rectangular sealed beam was produced purely because of fickle car designers and consumers, optically speaking a round reflector/lens is most efficient, so for serious performance applications thats all you will see, so theres no silly Aircraft landing lamp you can put in the place of a US rectangular sealed beam

 

honestly thats one of the things I find most perplexing about LED headlights, as I have demonstrated, theres no reason, one cannot have stupid bright incandescent/halogen head lamps, if you wanted to, but the reason we dont, is for practical safety reasons, the reason H4 bulbs are what they are is a trade off between performance for the person behind the wheel, vs not glaring everyone else coming the other way off the road

 

so I have genuinely been quite perplexed as to why modern LED head lights have been allowed to be so bad in that regard, theres no reason they *have* to be that bad, and yet here we are...

 

Well, whilst you can run stupidly powerful incandescent lights, they are rated for XXX W per bulb, which requires both much thicker wiring, much more powerful alternators and results in tons of heat. Modern LED lights are 15-20W, even for the super modern super bright matrix lights and associated electronics. I would also argue that optical construction of lights themselves evolved. I’m old enough to remember just how much better the lights became with the advent of projectors vs standard reflective headlights. 
There’s a very uncomfortable bit of automotive history, where we switched to these ultrabrights, but the technology not to blind other road users wasn’t there yet. Switching to matrix realistically alleviates this issue through electronic wizardry. I really wouldn’t like to be one owning these after a minor bump that takes out the 4 digit priced light cluster, or in 15 years when electronic gubbins start failing. 

[JakeT]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

if you look at the specifications you will see they are no brighter (1000/1600 lumens stated) then a regular H4 bulb and they are a worse 6000K

this is where old sealed beam head lights get a leg up here, those are themselves a standardised size/form-factor, the 7 inch sealed beam in Proper lightbulb terms is PAR56 and so with a small* electrical system upgrade, @IronStar could for "experimental purposes" fit a pair of these 4541 450W Aircraft landing light lamps to his mini with no body modifications needed at all  

Thank you for out bulbing me, and actually reading the data sheet. I was thinking about buying a pair of H7s next time I am in Germany but won’t now. Also not helping myself because I fit whatever shit H7 I have to hand anyway when I need bulbs!

[EyesWeldedShut]

9 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

so I have genuinely been quite perplexed as to why modern LED head lights have been allowed to be so bad in that regard, theres no reason they *have* to be that bad, and yet here we are...

Came back through rural Wales in the dark last night with my white stick (double H7s each side) coping just fine in the wet - bugger me though, stuff coming the other way (especially with auto-dip) was truly dazzling.
Whoever tested/approved some of those maybe just did it an urban setting? Some are really dire.
Quite nice when you see the 'yellow' tinge of halogens coming towards you and know that, even on main beam, they're less blinding that some mahoosive LED'd SUV on dipped.

[Fat_Pirate]

12 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

You OK though? 

I'm fine thanks, I'm made of a pliable meat-style material which largely protects me from my regular shenanigans.  And if it ever doesn't, I reckon I'd cook up lovely on a BBQ.

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

19 hours ago, grogee said:

there's a physical flap that cuts the beam

 

16 hours ago, grogee said:

the light source is a) shuttered for dip beam and

I was somewhat surprised to see that the solenoid operated headlamp dipping system has made a return.

Back in the early 1930s the headlamp reflector was moved by a solenoid to dip the beam of the single element lamp.

[grogee]

2 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

 

I was somewhat surprised to see that the solenoid operated headlamp dipping system has made a return.

Back in the early 1930s the headlamp reflector was moved by a solenoid to dip the beam of the single element lamp.

Aww, olden days. 

[chadders]

2 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

 

I was somewhat surprised to see that the solenoid operated headlamp dipping system has made a return.

Back in the early 1930s the headlamp reflector was moved by a solenoid to dip the beam of the single element lamp.

I bet the cost of fixing or replacing it was a lot less than £4k or so, even allowing for inflation, and no coding would be needed.

[comfortablynumb]

Engage satnav

Disengage brain.

Who the hell would try to drive down the Broomway? 🤦

[Split_Pin]

Y0 @SRi05 your old Saab lives on!

 

[SRi05]

18 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Y0 @SRi05 your old Saab lives on!

 

 

Interesting! 

Looks like it sat without an MOT for a few months, just went through one a few days ago. Curious to see how he gets on with it. 

[C3C3]

 

Yeahhhhhh there was indeed quit a bit of swiss in the wheel wells. But now the scooby rat is rot free!

[Snake Charmer]

 

[beko1987]

I knew I kept my old battery for a reason* 

*Haven't been to the tip yet\might come in handy one day

Battery in a mates car died the other night on his wife as she tried to come home from work, which wasn't ideal. 

Grabbed my old battery out of the porch cupboard, stuck it on charge for a day and we fitted it after work tonight 

Car fired right up, was some old looking Exide that hadn't been off in a long while. Will do him until payday and maybe beyond, his car doesn't have a cold start issue that this battery just can't fight but I told him I'd not trust it for long.

Luckily a brand new Exide is 50 quid from tayna and that's probably what it'll get.

Also fired some brake cleaner into their astra:s front drivers seat belt buckle. Its not registering the seatbelt plugged in and bonging constantly (2017 flavour). Dunno if it's worked or not as we couldn't be arsed to go for a drive and check

[vulgalour]

It finally stopped raining for a day and the floor wasn't soaked from the rain of the days previous.  Got out and used up the last of my welding gas, made some progress on the Princess.

Still managing to find historic bodge after all these years.  Car has been on axle stands since June last year, this job and life in general has been pretty monstrous.  Keeping a positive outlook to survive, running out of welding gas isn't a problem, it's a sign of progress and achievement today and gets me a step closer to finishing this job.  I am undefeated, I shall persist, despite everything.

[Dyslexic Viking]

It's full winter here and it's starting to become a problem to find space to put the snow.

 

The large snow pile behind the barn where I have moved snow to with a wheel loader, it is about 1.5+ meters high and goes 10+ meters into the forest at that height all the way.