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post 1644545723 08-08-2021, 08:50 PM
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When will aftermarket LED headlight replacements become illegal?

Or at least when will they start enforcing it like they do with the window tints? One of which is not a danger to other drivers and one is. There nothing more annoying when driving at night than low IQ individuals that put a super powerful LED bulb in their old halogen bulb slot without doing a proper conversion.
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One of these days I'm going to install a spotlight on the roof of my car and just drive around at night blinding every fukker with those overpowered headlights.
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Originally Posted By Bluestar92⏩
Or at least when will they start enforcing it like they do with the window tints? One of which is not a danger to other drivers and one is. There nothing more annoying when driving at night than low IQ individuals that put a super powerful LED bulb in their old halogen bulb slot without doing a proper conversion.
They probably are technically just not enforced often.
My Acura has the LED headlights with the line of I think six Low beams and four high beams
I high bean everyone of those ****g0ts
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Its really just how enforcement feels. But yea. I agree they need to start cracking down on it. They thing is, when LO pulls you over for it, they need to open the hood and check out the bulbs and all that jazz. It's alot of work.

Stores don't carry them but Amazon and a few websites is where most people get them. The gov actually shut alot of these websites down in 2000 but they started to pop up again.

That said its really not a big problem anymore.
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Not all are bad but a lot of people get the brightest they can find and put them in their jacked up headlamp assemblies where instead of directed light it just spreads it everywhere. Usually poverty cars too.
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Originally Posted By BLOATMOGGER⏩
One of these days I'm going to install a spotlight on the roof of my car and just drive around at night blinding every fukker with those overpowered headlights.
I would actually respect that 100x more and be mirin the install more than the low IQs that are oblivious to what they are doing.
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
If you get the correct bulb, the beam pattern doesn't change.

The people you are describing are running cheap junk.

Source : I'm running LED bulbs in the halogen slots, and I aimed the headlight to match previous cut-off.
No aftermarket bulb is legal. You can't make them match the original engineered design.

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Originally Posted By Jasonw1178⏩
Not all are bad but a lot of people get the brightest they can find and put them in their jacked up headlamp assemblies where instead of directed light it just spreads it everywhere. Usually poverty cars too.
It's usually big lifted late-model trucks where I'm from.
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Originally Posted By tunafishha⏩
Its really just how enforcement feels. But yea. I agree they need to start cracking down on it. They thing is, when LO pulls you over for it, they need to open the hood and check out the bulbs and all that jazz. It's alot of work.

Stores don't carry them but Amazon and a few websites is where most people get them. The gov actually shut alot of these websites down in 2000 but they started to pop up again.

That said its really not a big problem anymore.
Its coming back again now. In the past it was drop in HID kits. It died down.
Now it is drop in LED bulbs.
They work with PWM (on off on off) to regulate power output and you can see them flicker on some of them and every time I question if I should ram them off the road into a tree
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Originally Posted By helpmee⏩
Its coming back again now. In the past it was drop in HID kits. It died down.
Now it is drop in LED bulbs.
They work with PWM (on off on off) to regulate power output and you can see them flicker on some of them and every time I question if I should ram them off the road into a tree
Yea Ill see them every now and then and it's really annoying. Oh well. We're in the times of getting shot for flipping someone off. I just try not to look directly at the light.

NGL the package design for those LEDs are some top tier stuff. But they are all illegal as aftermarket can never match the original bulb design made by the OEM.
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Originally Posted By Bluestar92⏩
Or at least when will they start enforcing it like they do with the window tints? One of which is not a danger to other drivers and one is. There nothing more annoying when driving at night than low IQ individuals that put a super powerful LED bulb in their old halogen bulb slot without doing a proper conversion.
What's a proper conversion SRS, I was gonna do that but now I FEEL low IQ srs. I hate HALOGEN though makes me feel like a PEASENT srs.
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This, annoying and arrogant AF.
Would kick em in the nuts
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It's not so much the bulbs or the brightness. It's the aim and adjustment.

In some states, inspections to renew license plates require the vehicle to roll up to a screen with the headlights on to check headlight aim for safety.

If the lights are out of adjustment you will be required to adjust the headlights to pass inspection.

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Originally Posted By 10w30⏩
It's not so much the bulbs or the brightness. It's the aim and adjustment.

In some states the inspections to renew the plates require the vehicle to roll up to a screen with the headlights on to check headlight aim for safety.

If the lights are out of adjustment you will be required to adjust the headlights to proper specs to pass the inspection.

Gotta love the pickup drivers who lift their truck, get LEDs, and don't adjust them.

Last night I had insane glare and shadows bouncing off my dash like its fukin daytime... because of one of these guys behind me.
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lol @ led conversions in general. 99% of the time they produce less light than the standard halogen lightbulb. they seem brighter but as far as visibility over a distance most of the time its worse from what ive seen. makes sense as even OEM led setups use arrays of 4-6 high powered leds on each side
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
It involves cutting out the entire reflector part of your headlight, and installing the entire projector.

Good starting point:

https://www.morimotohid.com/
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Is it something to do with circuitry that has a more powerful RESISTOR so it LIMITS the power to NOT being a spotlight?
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
Using a bulb where the location of the LED doesn't match the where the filament is in the regular bulb will result in different pattern altogether though.

This is why the H2S HID kits never worked in the halogen housings, because the bulbs are physically longer, resulting in the headlight throwing up a lot of glare and not putting the light where it was supposed to be.
Agree. A good HID retrofit should use a projector to provide the best possible cutoff and to project the most light onto the road surface ahead of the vehicle.
Originally Posted By CaliSuperSport⏩
Gotta love the pickup drivers who lift their truck, get LEDs, and don't adjust them.

Last night I had insane glare and shadows bouncing off my dash like its fukin daytime... because of one of these guys behind me.
Lifted trucks are the worst.
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It's one of the most annoying things about driving at night these days. What's crazy is that the people who have them are unaware of how trashy and dangerous it is (or at least I hope it is ignorance). Imagine being that unaware of how your stupidity is a danger to others.
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nothing worse than those cars with super bright overpowered headlights brighter than the sun driving behind you.
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
There should be regulation for max headlight height... Late model stock Cadillac SUV's are bad too.
Originally Posted By 10w30⏩
Lifted trucks are the worst.
In cali they have lifting limits but even trucks below that can blind you in most low compact cars. My windows aren't tinted which makes it worse
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Originally Posted By 10w30⏩
Agree. A good HID retrofit should use a projector to provide the best possible cutoff and to project the most light onto the road surface ahead of the vehicle.
How about you buy a car that comes with HID instead of posing?
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Originally Posted By CaliSuperSport⏩
In cali they have lifting limits but even trucks below that can blind you in most low compact cars. My windows aren't tinted which makes it worse
At night I flip the rear view mirror tab to change it's reflection angle. It makes a big difference.





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Retards that toss a cheap HID kit into their halogen housings need to be run off the road. They are the absolute worst.

I have like 800+ into a quad morimoto H1 retrofit just so I can have fantastic lighting and not blind anyone else.
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Originally Posted By tunafishha⏩
How about you buy a car that comes with HID instead of posing?
Strong coming from a self professed tire jockey that can barely change a radiator.
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Originally Posted By ChrisLS8⏩
Strong coming from a self professed tire jockey that can barely change a radiator.
Lol I used to be really into cars.
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Bought new fog light housings with LED lights.

They came on the newer model of my car (Lexus), so spent the 200$ on the swap.

Looks legit
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Originally Posted By BLOATMOGGER⏩
One of these days I'm going to install a spotlight on the roof of my car and just drive around at night blinding every fukker with those overpowered headlights.
BLOATMOGGER aka Wincel is banned, did the mods get him for his LEDs?
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Originally Posted By Bluestar92⏩
BLOATMOGGER aka Wincel is banned, did the mods get him for his LEDs?
They finally REMANNED wincel HE is not as bad as BROSEFcuck but he is PRETTY cringe and ANNOYING I wish I saved the CONFIRMED wincelCUCK picture so I could meme his dumbazz like I do to BROSEFcuck.

MODS might've actually done something right PuniCUCK closed my MODcuck thread because he is FRAGILE just like the title LOL srs.

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