Thread: Has this ever happened to you?

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

Had the same at 2am driving home from work. Did the last 20ks with the parking lights.

Is that where the forum name comes from

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About thirty years ago I was a passenger in a Series 3 in Myanma, returning to town from a field trip to look at some rocks. Now at that time (I don't know if they still do) the routine for driving at night was to switch the lights on for a few seconds to get a view of the road ahead, then switch off until you had covered that distance then repeat. (I didn't realise it at the time, but it was probably so you don't make as good a target)

Well, as you probably realise, light switches are not designed to have this much use. And about half way back to town, when the driver pulled the switch for about the fiftieth time that night - it fell to bits, and some of the bits landed on the floor in the dark. The rest of the trip was very slow - we had to use the on/off lights of the escort truck, after getting them to move to in front. Very late dinner.

(That was an interesting excursion - most places we stopped the soldiers went to sleep under their truck, but where we stopped for lunch they put a line of sentries with AK-47s around the party. I asked the captain if they expected rebels around there - the answer "No, tigers!".)

John

Would happen quite often in Citroen C4 we owned , started playing up when car was about 6 months old Citroen could never find what the problem was during our 4 years ownership they even replaced the fuse box with out any improvement , still had the problem when we traded it. Some one else's problem now.