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Posted on 02/09/2011 9:06:49 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed
This chat thread is to divert an off-topic issue from the Ashley Turton car fire death news thread.
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Please respond to the Xenon discussion in this thread, as the other has importance beyond our chat. My apologies for encouraging the topic drift by participating.
If you (not you personally) are so concerned about lighting up the road in front of you just drive with your high beams on all the time. Same thing.
Winning friends across the highways of America, NOT!
Interesting question. Love them and wouldn’t get another car without them. Now off to the original thread to see how you got started on this topic...
Have never driven a vehicle with these lights so I cannot respond to how well they illuminate the road at night and; therefore, help the drives. I presume that is the bright side of the issue. As an oncoming driver who frequently encounters these lights, I find they blind the crap out of me and more than a few times, I’ve had to really slow down and look away at an angle in an effort to continue to see the road. Viewed in this light, I find them to be too bright.
If you (not you personally) are so concerned about lighting up the road in front of you just drive with your high beams on all the time. Same thing.
Maybe you should Google “beam cutoff” to learn why you are so wrong.
They have their utility. However, I am reluctant to agree that the government needs to mandate on this issue.
I believe people hate it because it stands out in terms of colour, compared to the rest, more than this being an issue pertaining to glare.
Hate em.
They probably cause more problems because they give other drivers night blindness.
I drive a 2002 Silverado dually, my wife drives a 2005 Aztek, I own a Yamaha 1300 Tourer and a Honda CX500.
All vehicles have been converted to HID, on my dually that includes the high beams, the stock fog lights and an after market pair of Hella driving lights that use amber coated HID lamps, all of them are real HID with Xenon lamps, the headlight housing low beam on my dually are projector lamp conversions.
I live in rural Alaska, we don’t have much in the way of streetlights, we have long dark winters and lots of animals jumping out on the highways. HID conversions are VERY popular up here, some people don’t do it right and install the wrong type of lamps and you do get the bad glare though.
Animal collisions have gone down in the last few years since more vehicles are coming out with factory installed HID lamps.
They are life savers for us in Alaska, maybe its just an urban thing why people hate them.
I’ve taken to driving home at night with sunglasses on my head so I can flip them down whenever I encounter these things.
http://www.xenon-bulb.com/xenon-headlights/
When they first came out, I found them to be quite annoying.
The newer ones don’t seem to be as bad for some reason. Maybe they have figured out a way to focus the beam better?
Happens in 747s all the time.
That is an image of highbeams, not the low beams with sharp cutoff in the upper left quadrant that are the issue.
That makes you just plane ignorant in Beelzebubba world. Trust the experts, not your own lie’n eyes.
Ditto on the color. The bluish tinge always makes me think that it might be a cop. That’s a major reason why I find these things to be off-putting.
Overall, they’re annoying
BMW has a non-union factory in SC. My guess is there will be a shake down like Toyota got from Hussein.
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