The marker lights (
: Huomiovalot) are a pair of electric car parts for the Satsuma, available from the parts catalog at home for 239 mk. Fashioned as selective yellow daytime running lights, the marker lights will only illuminate when the light switch on the dashboard meters is set to parking lights mode (once used to turn the headlights on dimmed). The marker lights are designed to make the car more visible to other road users, thus they illuminate the road very poorly and should (and in Finnish law have to be) turned off in favor of the headlights in poor lighting conditions.
They are attached to the front of the car's chassis beneath the front bumper with a 1x6mm bolt each; the lights must also be wired to the electric system through the headlights from the Headlights connector
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Trivia[]
- Such lights are colloquially know as "Talmut" in Finnish, as reference to Talmu, a Finnish vehicle lights manufacturer. Talmu was responsible for the creation of laws allowing such lights, and heavily advertised the lights as a cost saving method. The lights were immensely popular in the 1970's and 1980's, but were eventually prohibited on cars manufactured after 1994.