rbowman wrote:
> On 11/28/2020 02:13 PM, Steve W. wrote:
>> micky wrote:
>>> In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:18:47 -0600, Vic Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:13:08 -0500, micky >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:05:44 -0600, Hank Rogers
>>>>>> Remember when we had sealed beam headlights? Plain, cheap Glass.
>>>>> And they never burned out. Though I decided to get fancy and I
>>>>> replaced them once with halogen, and those did burn out.
>>>> Your memory of sealed beams is different than mine.
>>> Well maybe I didn't drive as much as I could have.
>>
>>>> Besides replacing a few on my own
>>>> cars, I saw many "one-eyed" cars on the road. That's a rare sight
>>>> nowadays.
>>> But I drive less now than I did then, and I was one-eyed twice in the
>>> last two years. Occasionally when I'm facing something reflective, a
>>> store window, certain cars, I test my headlights but I don't know how
>>> long they had been out. There are enough street lights here that
>>> unless I go to the next town at night, I can't tell by how well I can
>>> see.
>> The trade off with modern lighting is that to get brighter lighting with
>> the smaller reflectors used they run the bulbs at a higher voltage than
>> they used to. So an older sealed beam may have been tagged as a 12 volt.
>> but the filament was set up to run at 14 or higher. So the sealed beams
>> tended to last a while, unless they were the cheap ones and in poor
>> mountings.
>>
>>> Also one fog light burned out. Will the police stop you for that? I
>>> guess, if allowed, it would make a good excuse and they like to stop
>>> people.
>> Nope, fog lights are not required lighting. They can stop you for
>> headlights, tail brake (although technically the laws state you need two
>> rear facing brake lights so if the CHMSL is working they cannot give you
>> a ticket for one out UNLESS it is also the turn lamp) And these days for
>> not having them on in the rain.
>>
>
> A different situation: I'd bought an old Dodge pickup where someone with
> big truck envy had installed clearance lights on the cab. According to
> New Hampshire law while they certainly weren't required if they were
> there they had to work.
>
>

Don't see that in the V&T laws for passenger vehicles. I know for
commercial vehicles that is the case though and many states have
pick-ups tagged as commercial vehicles so for a pickup truck it would
likely apply under the CMV laws.


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Steve W.