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Has anyone else noticed that more cars are using yellow bulbs for their headlights? Does anyone know if this is legal? I'm thinking maybe it's a good idea for winter as the ground is often wet. But I don't know if there's any point to trying this. Let me know what you think.
 
m4gician said:
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RICE !!!!

only ricers have those on their crappy integras/is300s/civic HATCHBACKS.
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how are you going to include is300 in that sentence? B/c they sure as hell are not crappy and if you are talking about the yellow/amber fogs... they come stock and are :drool:
 
I believe we're talking about some folks who put LaminX (or some other clear tinted plastic) on their front headlights for a pure yellow headlight, or just get an actual tinted bulb.

I'm assuming the theory is that of better visibility in poor weather (like fogs). That being said, there is that "cool" appearance factor.

On a side note, I think LED's are going to be introduced in some vehicles in the near future. Move over HIDs...
 
LED headlights are already in concept form. The issue is with heat, they need to figure out how to deal with heat dissipation, and then how to get the light focused and projected out.

I think you'll see a couple vehicles with LED headlights, but it wont phase out HID's anytime soon. Halogens on the other hand....
 
GapBoyPCS said:
I believe we're talking about some folks who put LaminX (or some other clear tinted plastic) on their front headlights for a pure yellow headlight, or just get an actual tinted bulb.

I'm assuming the theory is that of better visibility in poor weather (like fogs). That being said, there is that "cool" appearance factor.

On a side note, I think LED's are going to be introduced in some vehicles in the near future. Move over HIDs...
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Yikes not LaminX but yes the bulbs themselves. I think I may try the yellow bulbs for fogs but ya the headlights would probably be silly. Are there any legal issues though? I think white or yellow is allowed but not sure.

As for LED headlights I think the first concept I saw was Audi several years ago. LEDs can be very bright and focusing is not really a problem (have some decent ones on my bike). But sometimes I think what's the point if HID works very well.
 
Lexus is actually the Mnf that has them closest to 'production'.

But at the same time they are also perfecting the HID projector technology.

I dont think you'll see LED headlamps like the audis (exposed, and many different pods etc.) I think you'll see them in projector operation
 
It used to be the law in France to use yellow headlights. It reduces glare in the fog or in snowy conditions. hence the Lexus IS 300 among others using yellow fogs.

I wouldn't do it on a headlight, personally.
 
By definition in the Ontario HTA changing the color of a headlamp to anything other then amber is illegal, also covering the head lamp with anything that changes the color of the headlamp is also illegal. So essentially a cop could ticket anyone running a bulb that is not of amber color in Ontario, including stock HIDs, let's not forget that law is 9/10 interpretation. :)

Now, as for your question, I've been running PIAA Plasma Ion HB bulbs in my tour and my FZR for several years combined without any problems from the cops. A few months ago I had a chat with some young kid who had yellow bulbs in his sleeper civic and got hassled a few times and ticketed, which led to the removal of said bulbs...

What I noticed about the PIAA bulbs and what may be why I have never been bothered by the cops; is that the color of the light output from the PIAA Plasma bulbs is more refined and slowly shifts through the color spectrum to amber as your point of few moves away from about 45o field of view from directly center to the bulb. Hard to envision until you see it yourself, looks pretty sick, and I've noticed some cops eyeing my car with slight confusion, but never once have I been pulled over.

As for the kid with the civic, he was running ricer yellow bulbs that are just obscenely bright and yellow.

As for lamin-x, I run it on my SVT’s fogs in conjunction to piaa plasma ion H3s and its bright yellow, but since they are fogs it’s legal.
 
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