After my last post about lights and MOTs, i was curious to how much night driving you lovely lot do in your kit cars? Is it a case of avoiding it
where possible and leave it for daylight hours? Or are you not too bothered?
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I'll be avoiding it where possible personally
Well, I wouldn't want to be on a motorway in pitch dark & pouring rain, but other than that, what's the problem with driving at night
(other than it can get a bit chilly!). Just make sure you've got some decent headlights!
I love driving mine at night. As Russ says, not on a rainy motorway, but down the lanes in the summer is great.
Sold my Indy a few years ago, but when I had it was happy to drive day or night.
I drove from Carlisle to Leicestershire in the dark in my MK last year, plenty of rain too. It wasn't bad, but it did make me change my headlights as they just weren't cutting it!
To be fair, I've not even driven mine in the day yet haha! I just get the impression the headlights won't be great, but I may be pleasently surprised
I drive with the lights on, when in my 7, day or night, as its the only way some pathetic road users ever see my car, or any other 7, as there so low
to the ground
Mine not helped by being green
steve
I used to run 'Sevens' as my daily drivers, so used to do a fair amount of night driving when I was younger.
Biggest problem I found is that you're so low to the road that you suffer glare from the headlamps of oncoming traffic, even when they're on
dipped beam. 
If your running Dominator headlights night driving is not nice!
I never knowingly go out in the dark,but if I get carried away on a run or go to the local Westfield meet I have to drive home in the dark!
I can't see how people think it's enjoyable really,as one of the big parts of being out in our open top cars is all the nice
countryside/surrounding's IMO,which can't be seen in the dark!
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Originally posted by russbost
Well, I wouldn't want to be on a motorway in pitch dark & pouring rain, but other than that, what's the problem with driving at night (other than it can get a bit chilly!). Just make sure you've got some decent headlights!
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Originally posted by Sam_68
I used to run 'Sevens' as my daily drivers, so used to do a fair amount of night driving when I was younger.
Biggest problem I found is that you're so low to the road that you suffer glare from the headlamps of oncoming traffic, even when they're on dipped beam.
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Originally posted by snapper
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Originally posted by russbost
Well, I wouldn't want to be on a motorway in pitch dark & pouring rain, but other than that, what's the problem with driving at night (other than it can get a bit chilly!). Just make sure you've got some decent headlights!
But driving at speed in daylight in rain I can only describe as Biblical coming back from Le Mans with me as your back stop was OK then?!?
After driving mine in the dark last year and not being able see a dam thing, I upgraded to some LED lamps from Furore when they had a sale on in
January.
These are so much brighter than the 5 3/4inch mini lamps fitted previously and no excuses for people not seeing me coming as it has a DRL Halo too.
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Love driving back from the monthly meets in the summer at night. Through the countryside and into the city.
There are some lovely smells about too .. Especially going past the bakery 
I wear yellow ballistic glasses as I need something over my eyes with an aeroscreen and normal sunglasses are obviously a no no, and a helmet dulls
the experience (on a short run).
I wonder if polarised, but not tinted, lensed glasses would help reduce glare.