one headlight trick

[fueler]

Well as you might know, when you own a car for a while, you start to learn everything about it. You learn whats in every nook and cranny and how it works (at least thats how i am) Did you guys ever notice, that when turning on the headlights, if you turn the knob slowly and precisely enough, and find the right spot, you can get it so that just one headlight on and the other headlight off? i noticed this a few years ago when i turned on the headlights slowly and one came on before the other. Useless, i know. Or maybe you can mess with a cop. "do you know your headlight is out" "oh really? lets take a look.... theyre both on - are you drunk officer?"

anybody else know any weird tricks to these cars?

[Qxxx4]

yep, my HID's do that too its a slight difference but noticeable! I think its due to the relays probably being connected in series

[AJRK]

On mine, when I make a right turn and use the signal, when the signal turns off, so does one headlight from time to time... I never noticed what you're talking about Fueler, because mine are always on AUTO.

[Adnan]

i notice that when your idling and you click push any of the power seatbuttons the revs go up by 100-200 rpms and the engine purrs

sorry guys thats all i had to share

[fueler]

^^ yeah i notice a dimming when i try to, for instance, roll a window up if its already all the way up also, if you press the hazard switch halfway in (between on and off) just like the headlight trick, you can make the right side turn signal blink and the left side stays off

playing with the switches has actually helped me gain an appreciation for nice japanese switches. I mean they are solidly built. I can truly feel the precision in a Japanese switch. I hop in my chevy truck and i can feel how crappy all the switches are. For example, in a japanese car, you can press the turn signal only halfway to a point before it clicks, just like if you want to do three blinks and you dont want to click the turn signal only to unclick it after a lane change. Its just so perfect, since they've been designing them that way for 20 years now. Try to do that in a ford or chevy and they dont have that. instead, the signal starts making a crazy buzzing noise or it will start to blink really fast.

Or if the turn signal is already engaged with a click, lets say just for example its clicked down for a left turn signal - if you press down on it further with your finger (even very lightly) it will go crazy in a chevy. Buzzing and maybe blinking 5x as fast. Or it will stop blinking at all. You can press it hard, soft, whatever in a japanese car and it doesnt even phase it at all. AT ALL!!!!

cliff notes: american switches feel like something you would get at Toys-r-us

[fueler]

oh by the way, i drove my sisters volvo and i like the switches in there too. If you press the turn signal halfway (without clicking it) it will do a minimum of three blinks. In my R50, you can make the signal blink once or even just a fraction of a blink, no way to do that in a Volvo. They are programmed to always do a minimum of three blinks. Must be one of those wannabe "safety" things they brag about. this is a 2006 volvo S40, fun car to drive by the way. Its a freakin 5 cylinder how weird is that.

[Qxxx4]

damn, your serious about your switches.

LOL

i dont have any dimming or fading of lights anywhere since once my HID's are on their only consuming 35W, and all my interior lights are LED my buddy asked if i was going to get a capacitor for my subs and i told him theres no use since my car is so power efficient on its lighting system that its got plenty of charge to waste on my system!

[Qxxx4]

i forgot to mention...it may be only the ones in ontario, but anybody ever notice the newer chrysler vehicles have one headlight turn off when turn signals activated? isnt this a safety issue! it looks so dumb yet every chrysler owner i tell it to is clueless...

....yet were the ones with "jap crap" someone please give me a valid reason why this occurs. EVERY SINGLE newer chrysler does it!

[pathfinder9035]

lol this tread is funny. this just shows how much we love our cars. women just dont get it. my gf always ask me why i am always looking at other nissan pathfinder when i already have one and why i always spend money on stuff i dont need for my pathy. u know what i ask her the same question for everything she buys.

[AJRK]

i forgot to mention...it may be only the ones in ontario, but anybody ever notice the newer chrysler vehicles have one headlight turn off when turn signals activated? isnt this a safety issue! it looks so dumb yet every chrysler owner i tell it to is clueless...

....yet were the ones with "jap crap" someone please give me a valid reason why this occurs. EVERY SINGLE newer chrysler does it!

THIS MAKES ME SO MAD! I hate that! It's on all Chrysler products with Daytime Running Lights(DRLs). When you are driving with just DRLs, so lighting system is off, and you use a turn signal, the DRL on that same side turns off! How stupid is that? Its supposed to make people notice it more or something... to me it just makes me think "hey, that jerk's headlight is out". Bad job Chrysler...

[KoukiS14]

Every Nissan I've had has done this. . Also, wipers do that as well.

Another thing. . Japanese built ones seem to light one light first, and then the other, while American made Nissans are the opposite. .. same goes for the steering wheel lock.

[fueler]

Also, wipers do that as well.

im going to try that!!

[Adnan]

does anyone else hear a "unspooling effect" from the transfercase when you come to stop...in Auto/4wd of course

[nissandoms47]

I hear you fueler with the turn signal switch. When you're making a turn and you want the signal off you can easily just click back the stock to turn the switch off. In other cars it feels like the signal stock is going to break off.

[Andrew224]

The turn signal in the Volvo you spoke of is the same as in BMWs. BMW calls it a lane change indicator. That way, you hit it, it blinks three times while you are changing lanes, and then it stops.

Andrew

[AJRK]

Mercedes too. I like the way the turn signal stalk works on them... hold it and release immeditately: 3 blinks, hold is and release after one blink: 1 blink... ahh I miss German engineering.

[nissandoms47]

Audi is the same way.