Hang on a mo. If the side lights are the same bulbs and the same intensity as the parking lights...

Oh never mind! MX+HNY

Brake lights and fog lights use the same 'bulbs' and are the same 'intensity' but serve two very different functions.

And actually, as far as I am concerned, "side" lights are parking lights.

Nope, you are mistaken. Hence my post suggesting there may be some confusion.

Side lights illuminate all four corners of the car, parking lights illuminate just one side of the car.

Two very different functions for use in two very different situations.

If parking lights and side lights were one and the same then the method of using the indicator stalks to operate the parking lights would be unnecessary.

I frequently don't see cars driving using their 'parking' lights. With all the other lights around they disappear.

Again, the reason I originally posted is that some people are not understanding the difference between parking lights and side lights*.

The situation you describe is physically impossible. On any VAG vehicle it is simply not possible to drive with parking lights on. With the ignition turned on the switch position for parking lights becomes the indictor.

*Of course, I suspect we all really know the difference between parking and side lights. As with the various fog light threads some people just like to have a good moan

Again, the reason I originally posted is that some people are not understanding the difference between parking lights and side lights*.

The situation you describe is physically impossible. On any VAG vehicle it is simply not possible to drive with parking lights on. With the ignition turned on the switch position for parking lights becomes the indictor.

*Of course, I suspect we all really know the difference between parking and side lights. As with the various fog light threads some people just like to have a good moan

Absolutely right.

I've still got my old parking light from my first car, an A35- a single red/white light which was hung from which ever window was on the off side. The light could rotate to show red to the rear etc.

Plod today is absent, you can drive all day round here with no seat belt on, on a hand held phone, with blue fog lights on etc for weeks on end and no one turns a hair.

The Yeti has headlights, daylight running lights, side lights and parking lights. The fact that you choose to call side lights parking lights is simply a statement of your own ignorance.

Kindly explain why I am ignorant just because I consider that side lights to be nothing better than PARKING lights?

As far as I am concerned, and as I have been trained to do so; if you need to put lights on to drive, then you use the HEADLIGHTS.

Just because the Yeti, and other cars, has a clever little fitment that allows you to put on small lights on one side of the car, which they call "parking lights", but which in fact illuminates the "side" lights on that side, only goes to emphasie to me that that is all they are suitable for.

Oh yes and I like Marmite too!!

Oh yes and I like Marmite too!!

Haha, I hate the stuff.

Let's accept that some motorists find side lights appropriate in certain conditions and others prefer dipped headlights.

I hope everyone is enjoying the festivities