Horribly bright, blueish tinted lights

[Superflow]

Oh yes, I did pop the central mirror to its dimmed setting, but the lights still glared at me through the wing mirrors. It was like I was stuck in a spot light trying to escape from a mental institution.
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Consider it practice for when the inevitable happens.

[stephen300o]

Superflow said:

Oh yes, I did pop the central mirror to its dimmed setting, but the lights still glared at me through the wing mirrors. It was like I was stuck in a spot light trying to escape from a mental institution.

Consider it practice for when the inevitable happens.

Adjusting the rear view mirror will not prevent alien invasion. At least it didn't work last time.

[Mr E]

As an aside, the family bus (e-class) has very bright indicators. I suspect it's the repeaters in the mirrors, but at night you can see the reflection off signs 300m away...

[rongagin]

LittleEnus said:

Possibly because we aren't 8 year old Americans using sad internet speak.

You did however understand :-)

Edited by rongagin on Sunday 7th February 11:42

[DS197]

I usually turn on my rear fog light and leave it on if there's someone behind me with crap HIDs

[ezi]

DS197 said:

I usually turn on my rear fog light and leave it on if there's someone behind me with crap HIDs

That'll show them.

[DS197]

ezi said:

That'll show them.

Well it's not like I can drag them out of their car and beat the living st out of them so this'll have to do.

[Negative Creep]

There seem to be a lot less of them around than a few years ago. Aren't they an MOT fail now?

[rongagin]

A couple of weeks ago someone with very bright lights followed me through the village, however they were very aware of the dazzling effect and drove so close I couldn't see the lights. So some people do try and help

[kev b]

Driving home the other night I had one of these morons follow me for 20 mins, thankfully it had only one working light but this was aimed skywards, lighting up the inside of my car like an arc welder.

To compound the matter this idiot seemed to have an affection for my rear bumper, I slowed down to let him go past but he was content to stay where he was until finally overtaking on a blind uphill bend, missing an oncoming car by millimetres.

Yes, it was a Peugeot hatch, no surprise there.

There seems to be an increasing number of badly adjusted super bright headlamps about, along with the emergency vehicles that light up the whole county whilst trying to trigger epileptic fits and conversely the drivers who won't switch on their lights in bad visibility despite all around doing so.

Are people now so stupid, lazy and uncaring that this behaviour is acceptable or is it just me?

[EazyDuz]

rongagin said:

I'm amazed the fanboys of these kits haven't arrived to say that their kit doesn't dazzle and they need them because the standard lights are soooo bad they are dangerous. Some have to drive down country roads, shock horror, where there are no streetlights and big nasty ditches and rocks.

The OEM halogens arent dangerous, but the fact that i'm driving down these country lanes and everyone else has OEM HID's/LED's or aftermarket kits means i cant see st when other cars are blasting my retinas either behind me or coming the other way.
So i ordered a HID kit so i can see at least partially whats in front.
Just like if you're walking down the street at night with a torch, its all fine and you can see, but get a load of people to shine their torches into your eyes and suddenly you cant see a thing.

[Muddle238]

I hate these cheap aftermarket HIDs you see, instantly warns me that the approaching driver is likely to be a knob of the highest order who doesn't care about anybody else who has to endure their crappy tacky headlight beam scatter.

Always on an old Golf or something old and cheap. It doesn't fool anyone, it looks st and it's annoying as hell for other motorists. Personally I would like to see it passed as law that anyone who spots a car with aftermarket HIDs is obliged to smash the headlights in with a sledgehammer.

If I get dazzled by aftermarket HIDs I'm only too happy to reciprocate with my main beam Xenons.

[Daston]

We went down to Plymouth on Saturday and on the way home on the A38/M5 I counted at least 5 cars that came up behind us with what appeared to be full beams on. They were so much brighter than anything around them. Most seemed to be Polos/A3's. Judging by the lack of people flashing their lights on the other side of the road I assume they were not on full beams but just bd bright.

[JonnyVTEC]

Badly fitted?

It's just chavs putting HID bulbs (with related hardware) into reflected lamps designed for halogen bulbs.

[HannsG]

Anyone noticed the newer mercs all have horrible tinted lights nowadays...

[funkyrobot]

The scourge is spreading here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[David87]

HannsG said:

Anyone noticed the newer mercs all have horrible tinted lights nowadays...

They have LEDs at 5500K. They also have rear lamps that are, for want of a better description, exceptionally red.

[LankyLegoHead]

Even when I went through my "Lower your stupid VW stupid amounts phase" (For the record, I'd still do that today with an old shed of a VW) I didn't think these were a good idea! They're bad enough factory fitted to high riding cars, but retrofitting them to your saxo with epic reverse rake and they burn through everyones retinas!

[Downward]

Gave way to some absolute grade a bell weapon just. He was passing a parked car with these blinding blue lights so I just stopped and wacked on my full beams. As he stopped too I could see it was a celica with knight rider lights in the airflow bit.