A dash cluster light to tell us our lights are on, do we have one?

[adam.]

Occurred to me the other day, that most cars have a side light indicator in the dash cluster to tell the driver the lights are on.

Except, I noticed the lack of one in my 5.

Should we have one? Have I had a bulb failure in my cluster?

 

[Fez]

Mine doesn't, only main beam.

 

[Sylar122]

Nope pretty sure they don't have one. Just full beam


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[nellly]

yea not all cars have them. sure my dc2 only had full beam as well.

 

[adam.]

Cheers all.

 

[MatthewM]

I suppose the backlighting on the clocks/climate control will indicate that your lights are on.

 

[ChrisJDMDC5]

I suppose the backlighting on the clocks/climate control will indicate that your lights are on.

I was thinking that about all cars? Makes me feel like having a light to tell they're on pointless :-s

 

[HR Imports]

A lot of new cars just confuse this issue as the clocks are backlit even without the lights on. They often actually dim once the lights go on. I don't like this as I think it makes it easier for people to forget to turn their lights on after dark if they can see everything lit up.

Far better if you can't see the dials in the dark unless you turn your lights on!

 

[tricker_luke]

The amount of new cars I've seen with no lights on when it's dark but the roads are lit with streetlights...

 

[hondamad2204]

Daytime running lights don't help either, they see a glow upfront, lit up dash and they set off. Its quite scary really, but it was bound to happen with everything slowly becoming automatically operated. Some people will forget basic functions like checking for blind spots etc, as their wing mirrors didn't warn them when they get into a car that doesn't have it. Etc etc.

 

[adam.]

My boss' daughter recently had her automatic lights fail on her A3.





The levels of stupidity are high on this one.

She didn't realise she could turn them on manually.