> > It's Canadian. I'm told that, in Canada, the headlights are required to be on all the time. (Verification, please?)
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> Yup. Well, actually not the headlights. We have what's called "running lights" that come on separately from the headlights, and shine whenever the vehicle is turned on.

These are definitely the headlights. It's a pain with a car that has a bad alternator. Start, go a fraction of a mile, coast, stop, get a jump, start, go, coast, stop, get jump... we finally left it at a convenience store until we could replace the alternator. Having two vehicles is wunnerful, wunnerful.

> The van you're referring to must be at least a '90 - I think that's the first model year in which this feature was incoporated.

Yup, it's a '91.

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