Indicating

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amyu, Sep 25, 8:23am
Why do we spend thousands of dollars on top of the line cars, with all the bells and whistles? and cant find the indicator
From my experience us NZ drivers do not know where the indicator stem is
Asian cars it is mostly on the right
European on the left
Please learn to use it even when you think no other cars or people are around
saxman99, Sep 25, 8:37am
I'm driving a BMW so I don't have to. I checked with a cop and he confirmed.
bashfulbro, Sep 25, 8:50am
Most Police cars are exempt too.
rodeorunch, Sep 25, 5:13pm
I found that in Europe that indicaters in the bmw’s there do work.
I’m not to sure why they are not fitted to the nz models.
marmar1, Sep 25, 5:19pm
How come indicators on some new cars are so hard to see during the day when they do bother to use them.
bumfacingdown, Sep 25, 5:22pm
In NZ at best they are confirmators
afer_daily, Sep 25, 5:56pm
i find that two upturned fingers works for me !
upnorth, Sep 25, 5:56pm
Replacing a switch is expensive, best to not use it so it stays operable for the WOF test.
mrfxit, Sep 25, 6:38pm
History lesson.

The old cars had red lenses that often faded & also when broken, exposed the white bulb.

The modern trick is to use a transparent outer lens & a red bulb.
If the outer lens gets busted, theres still a red bulb showing.

What you are describing is a sunlight glare effect on the surface of that transparent lens.

Yes it's a pet hate of mine as well
bill-robinson, Sep 25, 6:48pm
I usually wink with the approptiate eye
headcat, Sep 25, 6:54pm
I'd rather concentrate on finding and avoiding the driver that is trying to kill me instead of playing with my toys.
socram, Sep 25, 7:14pm
I've found that even if the left ones work for a left turn, they magically change to a right flash when leaving a roundabout.
dublo, Sep 26, 3:18am
Maybe drivers would indicate more often if they had their hands on the steering wheel at "10 to 2" or "15 to 3", very close indeed to the indicator switch,instead of the very common one hand at the top of the wheel. It is not even comfortable (I have tried it!), but a great majority of people seem to drive that way. I am told it is "cool" , but to me it just makes the driver look like a slob.
Our local council has had 2-page adverts in the papers about road rules , including indicating at roundabouts, but they seem to have had no effect. We still get red light runners, failures to stop (let alone give way) at stop signs, and very slow dozies holding up long lines of traffic.
tony9, Sep 26, 3:25am
Since the red semaphore indicators were removed I thought there was no further need to indicate.
hkjoe, Sep 26, 3:42am
Does this apply to Audis too?
hkjoe, Sep 26, 3:44am
I have noticed that as well.
saxman99, Sep 26, 3:58am
No it doesn't, those upstarts are riding on our coat-tails.
skully13, Sep 26, 4:57am
Mine are telepathic, not my problem if you can't read my thoughts.
flack88, Sep 26, 5:10am
You can still you hand signals,i doubt a lot of people know what they mean nowdays!
bumfacingdown, Sep 26, 5:27am
The ones that mainly use two fingers?
socram, Sep 26, 5:27am
Project car also has trafficators - bet not many people even see them.
hkjoe, Sep 26, 7:01am
Two things come to mind:
When I was younger, the Road Code had different hand signals you could use, including arm out the window, bent at the elbow at 90deg, to show you intended slowing down or stopping. I think there was also one for turning left where you held your left arm straight out, inside the car.
Secondly, remember when some trucks used to have a long metal arm with a 'hand' at the end than was attached to the door with a pivot, the driver lifted it up when he/she wanted to turn right.
joanie04, Sep 26, 7:49am
My uncle used hand signals to indicate he was stopping and wondered why the driver in the car behind was a bit irate. Didn't have time to wind the window down lol, and no-one could see his hand signal.
gsimpson, Sep 26, 9:27am
I put flashing LED bulbs in the trafficators of my old car. They get noticed now.
Flasher is built in to bulbs so no rewiring required.
gsimpson, Sep 26, 9:32am
I stopped while driving an old open car using the correct signal. The car following stopped alongside and driver ranting. While I was removing my flying helmet I heard his wife say "Shut up you idiot, he was indicating to stop not giving you the fingers". They took off again quickly.