Modern Vespa

Why is this light there on the dash of the lx150? My headlights are always on. Do I really need to be reminded of this?

Yes you do

you would be surprised the amount of times I have forgotten that my lights were on only to look down and confirm that, yes, my lights are on.

Ditto....

It stays on to let you know that the light that stays on to let you know that your lights are staying on is still working.

Some sales areas still have light switches - it's cheaper to have a standard harness and dash, and just blank off the switch for sales where 'headlights on always' is the norm. On some models (X9s for one) the 'headlight on' lamp will go out if the headlamp blows. Other models don't do that current sensing, the lamps are just in parallel.

It serves the purpose for the extraterrestrials to spot you easier.

if you remove your key the lights go out

If the fridge had them, we would not be able to ask if the light goes out when the door is shut.

... and countless Scots would still be alive instead of locked frozen inside their fridges.

That light also tells you WHICH beam you are on, high or low. Not such an issue during the day, but certainly an issue at night. I am thinking the low beam is green and the high beam is blue. Two years and 1300 miles on my LX and I can't visualize the instrument cluster at this moment.

I'm still trying to figure out why my friend's stella's cluster has a light that tells him that he is braking....he damn well better know he is braking....

Maybe they thought it was going on to a Lambretta and used the wrong "breaking"

I suppose the braking light tells you not so much that you're braking, but that the brake light is on. Don't you often use the brake light to warn motorists behind you?
Of course when you do that, you probably shouldn't be looking at the dash...

Nope, the green is always on.
Yeah, I had to go look.

Correct about the colors, but I do want to know which light I have on: blue means, my headlight modulator is on, which I want.

For Salima, blue tells her that her high beam is on, which gives her more visibility during the day than the low beam. So, those do have a purpose for us.

What are you getting at here? Is the implication that we are a nation of simple minded luddites?
I'm not as pissed off as that makes me sound - I really am just checking.

Give them the benifit of the doubt - they might have meant Scot the name not Scot the makers of my favourite drink and uncle

and for all thinking its Scotch it's not. its IronBru....ahh the memories

I think he means simple minded frugal luddites.

Do you have any idea how many pence that bulb costs to run?

Ha I think that spans nations....my dads so tight that if he drops a 5c piece he bends over so quick it hits him in the back of the head

Also I spelt Irn Bru wrong.....not that it matters I spell everything else wrong aswell.

Aw, noo ah'm beelin'! Awa an bile yer heid, ya numpty,ye dinnae ken whit yer talkin aboot. Whaur's ma rid death? Thurrs been a murdur and so on and so forth.

I have to admit, I thought frugal was more of a complimentary term than the context would suggest, so I suppose that's one part of the stereotype I can live up to. That's not the same as "tight", right enough - I might strive to be frugal, but it won't stop me getting a round in! If there's drinking to be done I'm never one to shirk responsibility for that. Perhaps yet another part of the stereotype being lived up to.

"Culture" eh? Glasgow's burstin' wae it!

Anyway, sorry to drag this off topic.

LOL They must be a bunch of dafty weeuns lol Just like Scotland we too speak a strange "English" dialect lol funny how we N.Irish people understand the Scots and vise-versa yet english people cant understand us? lol Bet they have never had a battered mars bar of battered pizza lol ps here is an example of Ulster-Scots the PSNI (police service n.ireland) have printed enjoy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster-Scots_Agency

hi, do you know if it's possible to keep the possibility to turn off the light, i really don't like the constant light on, question of battery preserving...
i was thinking about fitting an interruptor more to have the option on/off

regards

I like the idea of an "expert translation service". Well when I say "like" I really mean it tickles me a bit. Have you seen the Chewin' the Fat sketches with Rab McGlinchey interpreting for the Neds? Fucking awesome.

The Scottish Parliament Website has a Scots language section that I find a tad patronising. Maybe I'm just not getting it.

ETA: Apologies again for the threadjacking, I'll stop now...

My Dad once dropped a quarter, as we were walking down the street. He made us stop to look for it, no one could find it, but I spotted a dime and picked it up. My dad saw this and said "Give me that, you owe me 15 cents"
and walked on.

Bending down is something I avoid unless it is necessary or really worth it. If I see (or drop) a coin on the floor, I will wad up a dollar bill and drop it near the coin. Then, it is worthwhile for me to bend down and get the coin.

Mine also has a horn to tell me when the horn is on.

P.

You may be able to do that. There was an older thread where owners of the S150 discussed forcing the light switch in to cause only the city light to come on. I haven't tried this, since I don't want to risk breaking my switch, but it may work.

city light on S 150

No, LML has that braking light so you will know when their cheap front brake light switch has failed after only 200 miles.

You are supposed to squeeze the front brake, but not the pedal. If you stop but the red light doesn't come on, you have to replace the switch again, again, again, again, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN...

Remember to stock up. Six or seven replacement switches in your glovebox should do. Oh, buy a few gas sender units while you're at it.

Or just try and find a Piaggio version of the switch which is plastic but lasts much longer.

The real question is why they bothered spending the money on a light to tell you that a light is on when it is always on INSTEAD of an clicker to tell you when your turn signal is on.