Headlights

I bought the car with an HID kit in it and got a ticket for them being too bright. I want to get just normal white headlights and was wondering i anyone has done this and how should i do this.

 

[Diego]

You mean just putting the regular bulbs back in? Is your housing different then stock headlight housings?

 

You could always look into HIR bulbs. The filament is in the same spot so the reflectors work like they were designed to do but the bulb is about 75% brighter at the same wattage.

The color temperature is about 3600K so slightly whiter than standard halogen.

HIR 9012 bulbs replace the 9006 and HIR 9011 replaces 9005.

 

[Diego]

Nice info...^

I will have to look into those.

 

[cheekychimp]

"Too bright"? How the hell did the officer measure that? Don't your tickets have statutory offences with the sections of law listed for each offence? If so what does it say under that section of law? "Any headlight fitted to a motor vehicle must not exceed 500 lumens or xx,000 candlepower"? Good grief!

 

[Whoodoo]

I'm sure its one of those tickets where all you have to do is go contest it and they will drop it. Basically they are revenue generators because people will pay the fine in order to avoid a hassle. I got a parking ticket on a sunday because they started construction on the sidewalk during the time I was away from the car. It wasn't worth the 45 bucks of my time/effort/gas to go down on a thursday to contest it, so I just paid it and was pissed for a while.

Anyways, back to the subject....

 

Yeah the officer said they blinded her vision haha. And she said they were blue and i talked to a traffic officer and he said no where in the law does it say how bright they can be they just cant be blue, red, or green.