YELLOW HIDS?!?!?!
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YELLOW HIDS?!?!?!
okay well every now and then i see a car coming that has an INTENSE yellow headlight bulb....theyre hid's for sure but i also see people with the yellow headlight covers
i want the yellow light but i dont want to have the yellow covers on my headlights...if i get the 3k hid's are those the really yellow ones?? or do they just look the color of a stock headlight bulb? but the intensity of an hid?
i want the yellow light but i dont want to have the yellow covers on my headlights...if i get the 3k hid's are those the really yellow ones?? or do they just look the color of a stock headlight bulb? but the intensity of an hid?
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Re: YELLOW HIDS?!?!?!
They are illegal.
If you want to put HIDs then make sure you retrofit your headlights, otherwise the lights will look like **** and you would be blinding people.
And yellow HIDs will definately attract authorities and they will give you a citation.
If you want to put HIDs then make sure you retrofit your headlights, otherwise the lights will look like **** and you would be blinding people.
And yellow HIDs will definately attract authorities and they will give you a citation.
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Re: YELLOW HIDS?!?!?!
taken from coolbulbs.com:
Depending on your local laws, yellow may or may not be legal.
I know for a fact as long as you don't have BLUE or RED you are legal around here, and intend on installing a 3000K or 3500K kit (yellow) on my car. But I want tons of light output, as I really don't like the idea of blasting a deer on the interstate... those little bastards are everywhere.
Many people believe that the higher the color temperature the brighter the lamp. This is incorrect. The color temperature is purely a scale to measure the color of the light output. It is a reference purely for color and could equally be called White, Green or Blue. The reality is the higher up the scale the lamps are the less bright they become. 5200K lamps are approx 10% brighter (measured in Lumens, not degrees K) than 7000K. But even a 9000K kit, which is another 10% dimmer, has so much more light than your used to with halogens it doesn’t matter much. HID lights provide tons of light you will not notice a tad less.
I know for a fact as long as you don't have BLUE or RED you are legal around here, and intend on installing a 3000K or 3500K kit (yellow) on my car. But I want tons of light output, as I really don't like the idea of blasting a deer on the interstate... those little bastards are everywhere.
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Re: YELLOW HIDS?!?!?!
US Federal law, only white headlamps are permitted.
However, fog lamps may be anything from yellow to white.
US Federal law states that any red showing to the front of the vehicle is illegal.
As far as deer spotting, what would benefit you most would be a HID projector retrofit with very wide angle projectors.
Additional light output in halogen beam pattern will actually make it harder to see the deer that are slightly outside of the beam pattern, reducing safety. Overpowering the foreground is a common issue with HID kits, and most people have no clue that doing so reduces distance/side visibility.
However, fog lamps may be anything from yellow to white.
I know for a fact as long as you don't have BLUE or RED you are legal around here, and intend on installing a 3000K or 3500K kit (yellow) on my car. But I want tons of light output, as I really don't like the idea of blasting a deer on the interstate... those little bastards are everywhere.
As far as deer spotting, what would benefit you most would be a HID projector retrofit with very wide angle projectors.
Additional light output in halogen beam pattern will actually make it harder to see the deer that are slightly outside of the beam pattern, reducing safety. Overpowering the foreground is a common issue with HID kits, and most people have no clue that doing so reduces distance/side visibility.
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Re: YELLOW HIDS?!?!?!
3000k will give you the yellow light you want, but you will most likely get pulled over.
tunerNOOb is right, the only yellow light you can have is fog lights.
even the yellow covers are illegal.
tunerNOOb is right, the only yellow light you can have is fog lights.
even the yellow covers are illegal.
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