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Old Sep 25, 2008 | 05:15 AM
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Default Re: Headlight Laws??

Originally Posted by disheeki546
this whole hid fad needs to go. its a like a fart can for the eyes. so many people dont seem to realize that it does not improve your vision at night at all unless they are in the proper fixture, and aimed. it just throws light everywhere and is dangerous to other drivers sometimes. if you notice on cars that it comes on factory its a perfectly straight line across the horizon, that rarely enters the windows of other cars unless they are right up on you.
Originally Posted by Raymond Babbit
I disagree.
As do I.

I've been blinded by stock Maxima's, S2000 and plenty of BMWs at night. My HID's are in a halogen housing and I have aimed them low.

I've been high-beamed by people in my Civic but I've been high-beamed in a friend's S2000 aswell.

For what its worth, I have 4300k w/ halogen hi-beams.