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Bush Tucker Man:
Not the most interesting of topics I know, but.....

I was heading into Wakefield this morning at about 07:45 & saw 2 Discovery Td5's in queuing traffic heading in the opposite direction.
One was a 'pocket headlamp' model, the other a 'standard lamper'.

On looking in my mirrors I realised that both had upper body tail-lights, then I realised I'd not really seen many Td5's in the dark

Just out of interest can anyone tell me when the tail-light went 'upstairs'?, as weren't the early ones fitted with bumper tail-lights like the Discovery 1 (& for the same reason - visibility with the rear-door open)

muddyweb:
Mine was a 2000 model, and had high level tail lights... the bumper mounted ones were Fogs.  Pretty sure the Series 2 always has been.

The cluster uses something like 4 lamps per side, so you get reasonable light distribution and a bit of redundancy when a lamp fails.

muddyweb:
Just another thought... in terms of visibility with the door open.. there is a red light in end of the door which comes on with the sidelights, so if the door is open, this is showing to the rear.

Hightower:

--- Quote from: "muddyweb" ---Mine was a 2000 model, and had high level tail lights... the bumper mounted ones were Fogs.  Pretty sure the Series 2 always has been.
--- End quote ---


Mines a very early TD5, originally reg'd in 1998, and it has tail, stop and reverse lights at high level.  The ones in the bumper are indicator and fogs.
I think that I prefer the new setup though, with the indicators up high.



--- Quote from: "muddyweb" ---there is a red light in end of the door which comes on with the sidelights, so if the door is open, this is showing to the rear.
--- End quote ---


Not in mine there's not  :(

Paul:

--- Quote from: "Hightower" ---tail, stop and reverse lights at high level.  The ones in the bumper are indicator and fogs.
--- End quote ---


Same setup here. :D

/me goes out to check for a light in the end of the rear door.

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