Please settle an argument I am having with my brother? I am sure that in one of his early cars , his hazard lights switch was on one of the normal steering wheel stalks and it worked by pushing it back. Or it might have been a separate stalk to the normal indicators , but it definitely wasn't a plain dashboard button switch that we are used to now?
IIRC, his original model Polo did this but he disagrees. Anyone got experience of one to settle this?
We really need to get a life!!
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Possibly a VAG group car. Audi had four stalks around the wheel at one time and one may have included the hazard switch.
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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The 1976 model VW Polo I owned a very long time ago definitely had the hazard light switch as a steering wheel stalk. I have never, before or since, seen a dashboard so bereft of switches as the one fitted to that car.
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I think it was some stage in the 90s that the hazard switch started moving to a big red button in the middle of the dash, which seems like a good place for it. My 1980s Peugeot 305 had it in amongst the other buttons on te centre console, where it could be a little slow to lcate ... and I remember some cars (Fords???) which had it on top of the steering column, where you had to reach through the wheel.
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I think it was some stage in the 90s that the hazard switch started moving to a big red button in the middle of the dash>>
It was there from 1969 on VW Beetles, hardly the last word in modernity even then...
I don't remember the early Polos, but the 1978 Audi 100 had the hazards on a column switch too.
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It was there from 1969 on VW Beetles, hardly the last word in modernity even then...
My 1981 Chevette didn't have hazard lights!!!
Re: OP, i remember a S reg (1977) Mk I Golf having the hazard light on the stalk, which fits with all the other VAG cars. It didn't have seatbelt buckles either, it had a bar that clamped the belt or something.
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My 1981 Chevette didn't have hazard lights!!!
That's odd, my 1979 Chevette had them.
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I think they became a requirement in the 1970's, my 1975 Golf had them, the switch was on the dashboard above the radio.
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I have a 1975 Toyota Hi-Ace which has no hazards,although drum brakes all round and no servo might be regarded as one.Column shift too but I like that.
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>> My 1981 Chevette didn't have hazard lights!!! That's odd, my 1979 Chevette had them.
I had the ES, which i think meant "extra stingey". The front seats didn't even recline, and the bumpers were matt black. No cigarette lighter, or nearside mirror. Nearly as ill equiped as a Fiesta Popular.
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>> >> My 1981 Chevette didn't have hazard lights!!! >> >> That's odd, my 1979 Chevette had them. >> I had the ES, which i think meant "extra stingey".
Ah. Mine was an "L", which may explain the difference.
The front seats didn't even recline, and the bumpers were matt black. No cigarette lighter, or nearside mirror. Nearly as ill equiped as a Fiesta Popular.
What they call "basic" cars these days are not at all basic by the standards of 25 years ago. My mum's 5yo "basic" Polo has tinted glass, electric mirrors, adjustable steering column, a rather good radio/casette, rear wash-wipe, head restaints ... all features which would have been reserved for top-of-the range cars in those days. And in real terms (infaltion-adjusted, never mind income-adjusted), it costs a lot less
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I recall the additon of a Chevette E to the company fleet which was allocated to a travelling canvasser. When advised of the imminent arrival of his new vehicle canvasser thought the E stood for Executive. How wrong can you be ?...
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All series one Polos had their hazards activated by a red stalk on the right had side of the steering column, behind the wiper stalk. It might have been an Audi invention because the Polo started life as an Audi (the 50)
Later editions (1981-1991)had them around the instrument binnacle (which is a good move), but then by the re-engineered version (1991-1994) like mine, had them relocated to the top of the steering column, which makes them a pain to use in a hurry and there are plenty of spare switch spaces where they could have been put. So its wasn't just Fords.
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Are you sure it wasn't a Series III Landy?
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Just thinking why anyone would put the hazard switch on a stalk, perhaps if the original design did not have hazards it was easiest to modify the indicator stalk so up and down activated the indicators and perhaps a push back activated both sets of indicators i.e. the hazards. Can't say I remember any cars that functioned like this though.
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While we're on the subject I recall driving an Alfasud many moons ago that had, if I remember correctly, the heater blower switch fitted as a steering wheel stalk. This was just one example of various ergonomic oddities on Italian cars of the time.
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Thanks for your replies guys, I think I won my bet re it being his original Polo that had it.
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Throwing a spanner in the works, I am almost certain that the BMW
2002 had stalk operated hazards. It was he very first car I saw using hazards - aged about 11...around 1970...
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we had a "1984 vintage" Polo N had the hazard switch on a red stalk....same car had main beam indicated by a yellow light !!!!
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