What I Didn't Know Until Tonight

[Opifex]

P.S. I'm one of those people who reads the manual before trying out the car...!

Blimey, you must be a quick reader. I was given a main manual with 576 pages and a separate navigation system manual with 372 pages. I've had the car 6 weeks now and I still haven't read it all. That's 948 pages all together. War and Peace has only got 1024 pages!

[acetip]

We're at cross purposes. I wasn't talking about DRLs. I was talking about automatic (aka "dusk sensing") lights.

Ah, my mistake....

My brother had thwm on his CRV... Quite funny following him through a forest road in high summer with his lights going on and off all the time... Can't do the bulbs much good?

On the Prius you can only get them with the LED headlights, so no worries about the bulbs. Then again they don't hurt my Audi, nor our Nissan Navara/Murano, nor the 2 BMW before that. I think I can safely say that it has not material affect.

Acetip, that was funny and can happen to all of us. Just remember there has been mandatory for the last 30 odd years I think an indicator which is green on the dash that tells whether your headlights are on or not. The same and standard across all cars

I use the button on the back a lot on the Prius, it is almost standard ritual to give a quick wipe on the lense cover of the rear view camera, get my laptop bag out of the boot (no projectiles on the passenger seat in my car, well not after I had a window smashed in and a laptop nicked in Birmingham once) and lock the vehicle using the boot button.

[acetip]

cant be thirty years as my 1991 passat never had a lights on warning,dont think vw would have sold me illegal car.

well hope not.

would it have not been noticed on its many m o ts

[oakridge]

Thanks for your replies about the 'driving away without a key' question. It would be nasty if the the keyfob Battery died in some remote spot.

Malcolm.

[Doesn'tExist]

cant be thirty years as my 1991 passat never had a lights on warning,dont think vw would have sold me illegal car.

well hope not.

would it have not been noticed on its many m o ts

Interestingly you seem to notices when it doesn't have one, yet you don't when it does, hmm how that does work.

[acetip]

cant be thirty years as my 1991 passat never had a lights on warning,dont think vw would have sold me illegal car.

well hope not.

would it have not been noticed on its many m o ts

Interestingly you seem to notices when it doesn't have one, yet you don't when it does, hmm how that does work.

when you had a car for 15 years then you would know if you had one or not.when you drive a car for the first time that has one at night your not aware of the fact.

its very simple,try to keep up.

[Doesn'tExist]

Pot kettle I would say in trying to keep up, afterall you were the one driving without headlights on...

[acetip]

Pot kettle I would say in trying to keep up, afterall you were the one driving without headlights on...

i am sorry if am dicussing this subject with someone who has never made a mistake.

but then if you can point out someone who has never made a mistake,i can point out someone who has lied

[Jan&tone]

Children, children..... No one is perfect, however, some are more perfect than others

[r04drunner1]

P.S. I'm one of those people who reads the manual before trying out the car...!

Blimey, you must be a quick reader. I was given a main manual with 576 pages and a separate navigation system manual with 372 pages. I've had the car 6 weeks now and I still haven't read it all. That's 948 pages all together. War and Peace has only got 1024 pages!

As it happens I am a reasonably quick reader. However it helped in this case that:

[a] I read most of the manual before I got the car - well, the US version anyway, which I got as a PDF download

A lowly serf like me doesn't get a T-Spirit as a company car, so I didn't have a Navigation manual to read through...

And, yes, I do still have to refer back to it at times. I don't remember ALL those pages! In fact, remembering where my keys are has presented enough of a challenge some mornings!

[kithmo]

Imagine the situation where there are two key fobs in the car, but only one of the key fobs is working. If the passenger with the working key fob is dropped off first, the driver won't discover that their key fob isn't working until sometime later.

Why would the passenger have a keyfob ??

[Jan&tone]

Imagine the situation where there are two key fobs in the car, but only one of the key fobs is working. If the passenger with the working key fob is dropped off first, the driver won't discover that their key fob isn't working until sometime later.

Why would the passenger have a keyfob ??

Wife carrying the spare 'cos she uses the spare when she's driving it perhaps?.

[acetip]

Imagine the situation where there are two key fobs in the car, but only one of the key fobs is working. If the passenger with the working key fob is dropped off first, the driver won't discover that their key fob isn't working until sometime later.

Why would the passenger have a keyfob ??

Wife carrying the spare 'cos she uses the spare when she's driving it perhaps?.

wife carries my spare remote.keeps it in a handbag with a hundred other things.

and the bag is rarely out of her sight.how she ever finds things in it are a mystery.

she got about thirty of them,some never used.

[johalareewi]

Imagine the situation where there are two key fobs in the car, but only one of the key fobs is working. If the passenger with the working key fob is dropped off first, the driver won't discover that their key fob isn't working until sometime later.

You can still use a key fob with a flat Battery. You just have to touch the start button with the keyfob when you press start (it's in the manual somewhere).

[Grumpy Cabbie]

Apparantly there is a 'hack' to give the Prius automatic headlights. The car already has the sensor for your dash display brightness....

Not sure if your dealer would want to/be allowed to adjust your car and I'm sure if you did it yourself you'd void your warranty. That's why I'm waiting another 20k miles before I adjust mine to auto headlights.

[kithmo]

wife carries my spare remote.keeps it in a handbag with a hundred other things.

and the bag is rarely out of her sight.how she ever finds things in it are a mystery.

she got about thirty of them,some never used.

Wow, thirty spare keyfobs, that's some collection :D LOL.

[Jan&tone]

wife carries my spare remote.keeps it in a handbag with a hundred other things.

and the bag is rarely out of her sight.how she ever finds things in it are a mystery.

she got about thirty of them,some never used.

Wow, thirty spare keyfobs, that's some collection :D LOL.

Blimey, 30 keyfobs.... No car in Marks and Spencer car park is safe ....

[acetip]

Imagine the situation where there are two key fobs in the car, but only one of the key fobs is working. If the passenger with the working key fob is dropped off first, the driver won't discover that their key fob isn't working until sometime later.

Why would the passenger have a keyfob ??

Wife carrying the spare 'cos she uses the spare when she's driving it perhaps?.

wife carries my spare remote.keeps it in a handbag with a hundred other things.

and the bag is rarely out of her sight.how she ever finds things in it are a mystery.

she got about thirty of them,some never used.

further to the wifes hand bags.

she likes going in charity shops and ALWAYS checks out the handbags

brought one once when checking all the compart out in it,she found £40 in it,could not remember which of the 4 charity shops she had been in that day.so i told to give half to a local charity shop and keep the rest.