44735600@sdccsu3.UUCP (05/03/84)
Here's something for you to do in the grocery store parking lot while
waiting for your spouse: 1. Leave engine off. 2. Flip turn signal
lever either left or right. 3. This is the trickiest part: hold the
emergency flasher button in just far enough to get ONE of the turn
indicators to flash. By now, you should be noticing something odd
happening on the dashboard or elsewhere. For instance, on a '72 Impala
we had, all the warning lights on the dash would flash with the
emergency flasher! Better yet, in my '77 Skylark, the A/C fan blows in
cadence with the flashing! My fan blows faster if the switch is on
high, slower on low. I would be very interested in finding out what
happens in different cars ( and if it happens in cars other than GM's).
Experiment!
Good Luck!
Brian Donnellywookie@alice.UUCP (Keith Bauer White Tiger Racing) (05/03/84)
I used to do that in my parents 66 Mustang when left in the car with no keys. To listen to the radio I would turn on the emergency flasher (in the glove compartment that year), turn on either turn signal and hold the brake pedal down. Thus I could get power to the radio continuously!! Keith Bauer White Tiger Racing
hqb@gatech.UUCP (Henry Q.Bibb) (05/04/84)
<for the line-eater> Well, I don't know about GM cars, but my 1974 Porsche 914 will light the parking lights on one side of the car when the turn signal lever is activated with the ignition off. Seem's like a nice idea when parking the car on the shoulder at night. On the other hand, my '81 VW Jetta doesn't do this. Are there other cars which do? -Henry Bibb, -Ga. Tech
ijk@houxt.UUCP (05/08/84)
In Germany, all cars are required to have special "parking" lights on each side. These lights are specifically designed to be turned on when the car is parked on streets where the streetlamps are turned off after midnight (or some such hour). Naturally, you don't want high power parking lights that will drain your battery, instead you normally get little lights (usually one on each side of the car, with a white lense on the front half, and a red lense on the rear. Note that these streets are marked with special road signs. It sounds like the Porsche method of using turn signal to light one side was a compromise of this requirement with esthetics. Ihor Kinal houxt!ijk P.S. My parents Mercedes has a light switch with several null positions - apparently they deactivate this option upon export.
wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) (05/08/84)
[] If you park on the street in the town of Bound Brook, NJ, you are required to have the little parking lights. Some other towns in the area may require it also. (That is, parking at night.)