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#2699783 29-Apr-2021 16:59

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People who park their cars on the footpath. The clue is in the name - footpath.

People who drive round with their fog lights on when the air is clear. The clue is in the name...

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#2699786 29-Apr-2021 17:01

rb99:

People who drive round with their fog lights on when the air is clear. The clue is in the name...

Exactly! We should crush their cars and suspend their licenses too :) LOL

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#2699789 29-Apr-2021 17:18

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027 XXX XXXX which is the correct form. Grrrr.

Who says that is the correct form (apart from yourself, obviously)? For example, when I lived in Switzerland, phone numbers were given as pairs of digits. 0xx xxx xx xx How is your format more correct (or even better) than theirs?

I'll agree that yours is the most common format, and therefore we should all use it. Like driving on the left...

Type the number into an iPhone and see how the phone displays it. Ask a mobile company what is correct.

The codes are 021, 027 etc not 027x. Etc

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#2699793 29-Apr-2021 17:31

Geektastic:
frankv:

Who says that is the correct form (apart from yourself, obviously)? For example, when I lived in Switzerland, phone numbers were given as pairs of digits. 0xx xxx xx xx How is your format more correct (or even better) than theirs?

I'll agree that yours is the most common format, and therefore we should all use it. Like driving on the left...

Type the number into an iPhone and see how the phone displays it. Ask a mobile company what is correct.

The codes are 021, 027 etc not 027x. Etc

It was a mobile company (Telecom/Spark) who promoted 0274 as a prefix. 025 xxx xxx numbers got converted to 0274 xxx xxx when they launched their XT network.

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#2699794 29-Apr-2021 17:31

The 3-3-4 format has been documented since at least the Telecom days. Yes, some countries do things differently but in NZ it's a standard format. When people verbally rattle off a number in a different format it's a bit jarring.

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#2699798 29-Apr-2021 17:45

Handle9:

It was a mobile company (Telecom/Spark) who promoted 0274 as a prefix. 025 xxx xxx numbers got converted to 0274 xxx xxx when they launched their XT network.

True - My wife always gives (verbally) her number as 0274 - she got moved from 025 XXX XXX to the 0274 XXX XXX - so was easiest for her to just remember the changed suffix.

But I can't say I know anyone else that I have heard say it that way.

That said she would write it as 027 4XXXXXX.

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#2699814 29-Apr-2021 18:46

rb99:

People who drive round with their fog lights on when the air is clear. The clue is in the name...

Yup, filthy animals. This is illegal and highly annoying (like parking on the footpath). I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t tempted to smash them in when I see it... of course that’s also illegal so I must exercise some self restraint.

Similarly, people who drive around with high beams on all the time.

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do you report them to the council?

I often do, but unfortunately Auckland Transport have a very lax approach to enforcement of this particular problem - by the time they send someone the offender has moved on, and they’re not particularly good at monitoring for it. Some in Auckland Transport also have an odd interpretation of the law here which doesn’t help.

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#2699823 29-Apr-2021 19:19

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People who park their cars on the footpath. The clue is in the name - footpath. You are looking for the carpark.

If the road is not wide enough to park safely, you cannot park there. If there are yellow lines, you cannot park there. If there are no empty carparks, you cannot park there. Under no circumstances is it acceptable to park on the footpath and berm. Where are people supposed to walk? You have to walk out into traffic and go round the stupid car. It's annoying enough for me, I can't imagine how dreadful it is for someone in a wheelchair/on a mobility scooter/pushing a pram.

This annoys me so much that I actually just think people who do this should have their car instantly impounded and crushed and their license permanently suspended.

I wouldn't go as far as crushing the car, but I wish councils would remove dangerously parked vehicles rather than just ticketing them. Unfortunately it would probably cost ratepayers a fortune to do this.

I recently joined Living Streets which is a pedestrian advocacy group who are quite vocal about issues like this. You might want to consider joining too.

I am reminded of an occasion when I came across a couple of people who had set up a trestle table on a pedestrian walkway on Wellington's south coast, completely blocking it. Walkers and runners were approaching them and staring at them in disbelief, while they just blissfully sat there enjoying their picnic. Some people just seem to be oblivious to what is going on around them.

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#2699830 29-Apr-2021 19:44

Geektastic: Type the number into an iPhone and see how the phone displays it. Ask a mobile company what is correct.

The codes are 021, 027 etc not 027x. Etc

what makes the Iphone correct?

i type my number into my phone and it comes up as 027 xxx xxxx i type my dads in which is one of the XT numbers and it comes up as 0274 xxx xxx

the 3 other android phones in the house do the same. who is right? does it matter?

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#2699831 29-Apr-2021 19:46

antonknee:

I often do, but unfortunately Auckland Transport have a very lax approach to enforcement of this particular problem - by the time they send someone the offender has moved on, and they’re not particularly good at monitoring for it. Some in Auckland Transport also have an odd interpretation of the law here which doesn’t help.

really Ive seen a how truck out before on Queenstown road where someone was over the footpath and you could walk past you had to cross the road.

The other ones ive reported have had an officer come out and ticket said vehicles.

If you dont do it they will continue to keep parking there.

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#2699839 29-Apr-2021 20:34

I often report footpath parking to the Wellington City Council and I have found them reasonably responsive, but I wish they would do occasional patrols in suburbs where this is a frequent problem. With their recent change in policy they might hopefully crack down on it a bit more.

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#2699954 30-Apr-2021 07:49

rb99:

antonknee:

People who park their cars on the footpath. The clue is in the name - footpath.

People who drive round with their fog lights on when the air is clear. The clue is in the name...

Front fog lights I don't have an issue with (legality aside), it's the rear ones that are more problematic. Front ones go away within a few seconds but you can be following rear ones for some time.

More of an actual safety problem are people driving on the PARK lights thinking they are being visible. A clue is also in their name, and they are all but invisible from any sort of distance.

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#2699961 30-Apr-2021 08:23

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Front fog lights I don't have an issue with (legality aside), it's the rear ones that are more problematic. Front ones go away within a few seconds but you can be following rear ones for some time.

More of an actual safety problem are people driving on the PARK lights thinking they are being visible. A clue is also in their name, and they are all but invisible from any sort of distance.

I thought the idea of fog lights was to direct light down at a steeper angle than headlights, to reduce reflection from fog - also orange colour to reduce glare, vs "driving lights" which most so-called fog lights seem to be, vs "daytime running lights" the use of which is legal, but some of which use bright pinpoint LEDs some of which have more glare than white driving lights.

I can understand why using proper fog lights during daylight when there's no fog is illegal (possible colour - orange light in front), but using white driving lights shouldn't be, as for park lights, these are supposed to be used (without headlights) in the Lyttelton tunnel (any others in NZ?), but there are no parking spaces in the tunnel at all.

Anyway, something small that annoys me is the insufficiently UV resistant acrylic headlight "glass" on most cars, that starts going cloudy after 4-5 years, that once it starts polishing to remove the cloudiness is only temporary, the outrageous cost of OEM lights and the dubious legality of replacing them with aftermarket lights which may probably be better than the OEM version.

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#2699965 30-Apr-2021 08:30

Fred99:

geoffwnz:

Front fog lights I don't have an issue with (legality aside), it's the rear ones that are more problematic. Front ones go away within a few seconds but you can be following rear ones for some time.

More of an actual safety problem are people driving on the PARK lights thinking they are being visible. A clue is also in their name, and they are all but invisible from any sort of distance.

I thought the idea of fog lights was to direct light down at a steeper angle than headlights, to reduce reflection from fog - also orange colour to reduce glare, vs "driving lights" which most so-called fog lights seem to be, vs "daytime running lights" the use of which is legal, but some of which use bright pinpoint LEDs some of which have more glare than white driving lights.

I can understand why using proper fog lights during daylight when there's no fog is illegal (possible colour - orange light in front), but using white driving lights shouldn't be, as for park lights, these are supposed to be used (without headlights) in the Lyttelton tunnel (any others in NZ?), but there are no parking spaces in the tunnel at all.

Anyway, something small that annoys me is the insufficiently UV resistant acrylic headlight "glass" on most cars, that starts going cloudy after 4-5 years, that once it starts polishing to remove the cloudiness is only temporary, the outrageous cost of OEM lights and the dubious legality of replacing them with aftermarket lights which may probably be better than the OEM version.

My possibly incorrect understanding of "Driving Lights" is that they compliment high beam only and should be wired as such. I could go look it up but I'll take the lazy option that someone with better knowledge will either confirm or correct me shortly. :-)

I have combination DRL (Daytime Running Lights) and Fog lights on the Ranger. Two independent sets of LED's, one for DRL, one for "fog", wired separately so the DRL's come on with no other lights any time the vehicle is running and the fog part wired to the fog light switch on the lights stalk.

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#2699972 30-Apr-2021 08:46

Fred99:

Anyway, something small that annoys me is the insufficiently UV resistant acrylic headlight "glass" on most cars, that starts going cloudy after 4-5 years, that once it starts polishing to remove the cloudiness is only temporary, the outrageous cost of OEM lights and the dubious legality of replacing them with aftermarket lights which may probably be better than the OEM version.

This really boils my gonads.

My car (and that of Mrs Dan) both suffer from the dreaded cloudy headlight syndrome.

I've used some fairly expensive polish to remove the cloudiness, with very ordinary results.

I seem to recall the old glass headlights on old cars from the 50's - 70's having no such issues.

I'd assume using cheap plastic was for two things - cost savings and weight reduction. I'd rather pay an extra few bucks when buying new (because I only ever buy second hand) to have glass lights again...as for the weight - I could simply miss a meal at Maccas.

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