stupid head lights switcher 307sw

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Octav - 01 Dec 2004 07:57 GMT

Guys,
Is this just my impression (after driving Audi & VW), or a common fact among
other users of 307sw as well --- the head lights knob works in a very
annoying mode: in order to permanently switch on the distance light you need
to pull it in the same direction as when you just want to blink/flash the
beam. The difference is just how hard you pull that knob. This makes it
difficult to wink with the lights (to warn others etc.), because if you pull
the switcher a bit harder then the distance light goes on permanently.
Messy! In Audi/VW the light switcher has 2 modes to "play" with the light:
if you pull the knob to you - the distance lights blink, and if you push the
knob from you - then the distance lights are permanently connected. I
thought that such an operation would be so perfect and obvious, and now it's
so odd that Pugs have it in a wrong way (btw, is this problem with all
Pugs?)

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NiCkO - 01 Dec 2004 08:39 GMT

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> Messy! In Audi/VW the light switcher has 2 modes to "play" with the light:
> if you pull the knob to you - the distance lights blink, and if you push the
> knob from you - then the distance lights are permanently connected. I
> thought that such an operation would be so perfect and obvious, and now it's
> so odd that Pugs have it in a wrong way (btw, is this problem with all
> Pugs?)

Not only Pugs, but Renault and many others too :-\
I think that audi/vw is a very clever system...
But I have to say that you get use to the peugeot system quite fast, too :-)

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naJ - 01 Dec 2004 15:14 GMT

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> But I have to say that you get use to the peugeot system quite fast, too
:-)

Mk III Golfs (maybe even earlier?) used the 'bad' way too until they saw the
light :)

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Brian Jennings - 02 Dec 2004 21:26 GMT

I have just given back a ford Ka courtesy car and returned to my beloved
306. In the Ka the lights work in the way you describe, and I hate it,
because it is much harder to turn the lights onto main beam by pushing the
lever away from the wheel than by squeezing it toward the wheel. In the Ka
it meant I had to take my hand off of the wheel to put the lights on main
beam.

Also in the 306 the light stalk is always in the same relative position in
relation to the wheel, so easier to find by feel. There's a massive
difference in how hard you have to pull it to turn the lights onto main beam
rather than flash them.

Which just goes to show that we all like different things.

Vive le difference!

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Speedie - 04 Mar 2005 11:33 GMT

Yes Brian I agree, I drove a ?03 Vectra for a few days and I too hated the
stalk in it, it too operates the same as described above, it is harder to
turn the main beams on, I too found myself taking my hand off the wheel to
do it and the higher location of the stalk is harder to find. The indicator
operation on the Vectra are a disaster to get use to (hated the cancelling
of the indicators). I was delighted to get back into my 406.

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