On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:26:50 -0700, george hahn <ahwahnee18@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Years ago I had a euro-spec Mercedes with such bulbs in the headlamps. I
>think
> it also served as the parking light. Perhaps it also assured that you
> still presented two lights to oncoming traffic even if one of the main
> beams failed. Also had a parking setting on the lights that turned on
> just the outboard parking lights, front & rear.
The headlamps on our '97 Land Rover Discovery also lit dimly when only
the parking/running lights were on. I found this handy when I was moving the
cars around at night to put my TR4 in the garage and didn't want to
light up my neighbors' living rooms -- but also didn't want to drive over
the
Triumph.
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Steven Newell
Littleton, CO
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