And now I've seen it all ...

[Tim Streater]

And there are car parks on the Suffolk coast where you have to type in the three digits from your number plate.

[dom]

I think faulty vehicle lighting must be the most common, significant safety-related fault on vehicles.

Of course - anyone can have a bulb fail at any time.

But it shouldn't be beyond the wit of ANPR cameras to spot faulty lights, and auto-generate an email or letter to the registered keeper.

Add the faulty-lights vehicle plate to a database, and if it appears again with the same fault after - say - 2 weeks have elapsed since the first letter - send them a fine in the post.

Harsh - but it would make a greater contribution to safety than fines for slightly exceeding the speed limit.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I changed the dip pair car recently. H7. They were old and not as bright as new.

Quite.

It's possible to cross thread a nut too.

And you'd leave it like that till the next MOT?

[Huge]

You can't. You have to remove a trim panel inside the car and undo a nut about a thousand turns through a tiny and very sharp-edged aperture in the internal bodywork. The design sucks donkey dick.

[Huge]

I have a spare flashgun. :o)

The HIDs on the Disco III are *brilliant*. In both senses. Best headlights I've ever had on a car. Wouldn't go back to the dim brown pools we used to have to use.

[Huge]

Actually, two nuts. On really long bolts, so you can't use a nut runner.

[John Williamson]

If you stay longer than the permitted time, you are in breach of the implied contract with the land owner, and the DVLA are permitted to sell your details to the owner of the parking area for billing purposes.

So you admit that you park in a disabled space without displaying the required badge or a parent and child bay without the required number of children, in breach of the conditions posted in the car park. (In small print on a grubby notice hidden in the corner behind a shrubbery.)

As an organisation with a legitimate reason to have the information, (They want to chase you for a bill) the car park operator just has to ask the DVLA for the details. They will be charged a fee for it, which is passed on to you as part of the parking charge.

You heard no more about it because it wouldn't be economically viable for them to chase you any further.

The breach of the DPA, if any, is by the DVLA who are the registered holders of that data, but as they passed on the information to a third party for a legally approved use, you'd not get far chasing them.

As you say, their loss.

[Man at B&Q]

D-O-G ?

MBQ

[John Williamson]

No, the DPA does not apply to data used for law enforcement purposes, especially if a court grant a warrant for seizure and/or use of said data. Nor does it apply to data used for a specified, legal purpose, in this case, the apprehension of an alleged offender.

[Steve Firth]

I have the iPhone on a window mount for sat nav. It's also useful because it lets me flick the iPhone to "torch/strobe" for those prats on bicycles with strobing headlights.

[Steve Firth]

Sounds like they copied the Ford Exploder.

[Steve Firth]

That's the primary reason, not an "also includes". If they can catch someone with outstanding markers for failing to appear in court it's a bonus.

[Steve Firth]

You don't really have to be taking the piss. I was stopped about a decade ago by two plod who told me that I had been speeding but they hadn't managed to start their Vascar in time and when the speed limit changed from

70 to 50 I slowed to 50 so they couldn't "do" me. They were wrong about me speeding but I didn't correct them knowing that can lead to trouble. I then got a roadside MoT as they desperately tried to find something wrong with the car.

[Steve Firth]

Only someone who has never worked on a car would think it was a stupid remark.

[Mark]

Remember to buy several since halfrauds bulbs only last a couple of weeks.

[dennis]

They shouldn't need to, all new cars have to have a warning when a bulb fails. Like most warning lights in cars people ignore them.

[Chris J Dixon]

That was fine when most cars had three digits. These days they seem to be changing the kit to accept full reg.

Chris

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Come clean, then. You have actually fitted a headlight bulb 'upside down' which was only discovered at MOT time?

[Java Jive]

Surely, as per usual practice these days, they would just put it in the hands of debt collectors?

Perhaps the car park company were trying to do it 'on the cheap' and not paying the DVLA, so that's why they dropped it?

Also, whence does your information come? Although as I say IANAL, I'm yet to be convinced that, where no crime has been committed, the DVLA can sell on your details as you suggest.

[Lieutenant Scott]

I've got a choice of Morrisons, Aldi, Asda, and Tesco. So if one pisses= me off in any way they lose custom (after being told loudly that they'r= e about to).