TopQ1967 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Yesterday, A car that came from the oposit direction almost hit me. His reaction was he could not see my total wide because the front headlamps are not on the outside of the car. I think this will be a bigger problem on wide and super wide track cars. What do you think about this? Any solutions to the subject? Regards, Quirin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Plato Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Punch him 🤔 here is C7 TOP Taffia Area Rep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry21p Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 That's a bit like claiming you hit a motorbike because "the handlebars are wider than the headlamp"..... I'd not worry about it and suggest the other person gets glasses or drives a little slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_C Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 I agree it is a stupid thing for him to have said. However, to avoid this risk I bought a strip of Diamond White Retroreflective tape on ebay and applied it to the front wings as on this piccy here which makes the whole thing much more visible at night. At the same time I wrapped the rear tubes of the rollover bar with red retroreflective too. Cheers Tom FH54WLX see here - UPDATED again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 If they are at their original position, the headlamps position complies with the EU regulative on a widetrack car, can't answer for superwide... /r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Plato Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 on a more serious note, I have always felt safer and nmore visible when driving with my headlights on in daylight ( ally car with carbon wings and black cage so pretty invisible on a country road) but other road users take offence to the headlights as they think I'm being agressive . What we realy need is some small LED marker lamps ontop or underneath the wings 🤔 here is C7 TOP Taffia Area Rep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Smith Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Like here 😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Plato Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 here is C7 TOP Taffia Area Rep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prangerman Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Tom_C - where did you get the reflective tape? I've had the devil's own job trying to find some in any of the usual likely sources. In Memoriam DMG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Plato Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 bike shop here is C7 TOP Taffia Area Rep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_C Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 From ebay. there's a guy on there with an ebay shop called Simplesignman2002 who sells it by the metre length in 50mm wide. Cheers Tom FH54WLX see here - UPDATED again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopQ1967 Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 Thank you all for your information. I know, If you comply to the regs. it may be o.k., but if some other driver run's your front wheel suspension of it will give a lot of problems…… In the Netherlands a lot of obstacles are put on the road (deliberately) to slow down the traffic. If you wait in front of such obstacle, an opposite drive may miscalculate your position (due to the headlamps sitting far inside the front dimensions). And hit the front wheel, In the past I had a S3 Land rover, the S2 had a similar problem, it was solved to replace the lights to the wings (as per S3). Regards, Quirin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_C Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Quirin, the RR tape certainly works in that sort of situation, it's the same stuff as the background on white roadsigns. Cheers Tom FH54WLX see here - UPDATED again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Day Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 A few years ago my Dad was travelling down a Devon country lane after dark. Coming towards him were 2 headlights close together. Considering it to be a motorbike he travelled accordingly. Up close it was an extra wide tractor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisHawkins Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 I was followed the other day by a new shape mini cooper s, they now have two rows of white LED's hidden in the bonnet scoop, you could do something similar on the leading edge of the wings K93 AMJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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