Jur

Need some help here as I am taking a BTP test tomorrow.
The exam is in English but my studymaterial only available in Castellano!

So can anyone help translate the following please...........

Luz de Cruce
Luz de Carretera
Luz de Posicíon

jdr

Are they in sentences or just a list like that. ?

Crossing light
Road light
Position light

Jur

Nope, on a car, headlights.

It´s like cruising lights, road lights and I think the last one is something like a mist/fog light. But I need to know the correct English names and google is not my friend today.

chulo

Its Full beam, main (Dipped) beam and side light in the UK.

Translation is difficult without the meaning.

Full beam very bright when you pull the stork back, Dipped being for normal night driving and side light for low visibility and half the amount of light of dipped.

Luz de Cruz- Side Light
Luz de Carreta-Dipped
Luz de Posicion-Main beam.

But i could be wrong, so not 100%, about 75% sure I`m right.

jdr

I would pop to the local garage and ask the mechanic as it gets very confusing, so many different ones.

Headlights: luces/faros
- dipped headlights : luces cortas:
- full beam: luces largas:
- Indicators: intermitentes
- Parking lights: luces de estacionamiento
- Fog lights: luces de niebla
- Back lights: luces de atrás

Jur

I Know!

Thanks anyway for helping out guys.

chulo

Good luck.

Jur

Still breaking my head over this.....Does this sound right?

Luz de Cruce: Citylights/cruiselights
Luz de Carretera: Normal beam
Luz de Posicíon: Big Beam or bright beam

Again, these are the lights on a car and what kind of light they give. How are they called in correct English. Help!!

jdr

The trouble is they don`t really convert to English as it is gobble de gook.

British lights are :

Side lights: small white lights at front and red at rear, were also known as parking lights.
Dipped headlights: mainbeam dipped to stop dazzling oncoming drivers.
Head lights: main beam for distance.

also Fog lights and Reversing lights, but not on your list.
hth.

Good luck with the test.

fionamw

Just to clarify, on many (most?) modern cars, sidelights are no longer a separate small white light at the front, they are more often a smaller bulb within the main headlight construction and, as has been said, serve as a parking light. The red light at the rear is the same as with dipped headlights or full/main beam.

Jur

Failed! Turned out you can do theoretical exams for class B, C and D in English, German, and French. I´m after the BTP authorisation which allows one to drive taxis, ambulances, policecars and firedept.vehicles. Had to to the test in Spanish and got to many mistakes due to the technical Spanish used in the test.

One question made me wonder: On which wheeels do you put snowchains?
A) Front wheels
B) Rear wheels
C) Powered wheels

fionamw

Bad luck. Without checking I guessed it would be on the powered wheels, and Wikipedia seems to agree - though elsewhere I saw that you could put 4 on, if you've only got 2 they should be on the drive wheels. So Front, Back, depends which wheels drive!

Were you told how much you'd have to revise to do it again?

Jur

Nope, Luckily the 2nd attempt is free of charge!

Fredbargate

I'm glad you posted that explanation I never understood what BTP was.

Mine lapsed last year ( I could have taken a new medical )

I got it from my UK licencewhich was only for cars and motorcycles.

Jur

Passed it !!!!