anyone use them on a ek civic? looking for some feedback or tips about them.

 

im assuming your talking about the laminx head light covers? i haven't personally have had experience with them but i do have the laminx covers for my 99-00 fogs...works great and looks great too. If your planning on putting them onto your headlights it really only looks good on a small % of cars...like this one...so i'd recommend thinking twice about it. also you'll have to consider the law too...yellow headlights draw alot of attention

 

yellow headlights look retarded, if they make a clear film I could see the benefit w/ that.

 

It looks like someone filled the housing with urine.

 

i got yellow headlights on my ek and i love it, and its a eye catcher to everyone knos its me comin down the road.

 

i think they look good

 

I think they look pretty good

here is a EK and a IS from here, Dominican Republic with it

http://razine.com/modules.php?...36643

 

make sure you check with your local law, like here in cali, its illegal to have the headlights yellow

 

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Indeed. It also reduces light output.

 

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Yup, and it really is a "look at me, I want to be harassed by cops & thieves" type of thing in my mind.

 

It's asking to get pulled over. Yellow headlights are illegal here in Hawaii.

 

u.k headlights on the the ek4 come stock with some kind of clear flim on them, you dont realise until it starts to peel over time (due to stone chips etc)

 

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yep true...i have them on my 99-00 fogs and the light output is reduced somewhat but still bright...

 

I have the yellow film on my 99-00 OEM fogs, dimmed the light a bit but I'm definitely glad to have yellow lighting in the rain You can't see the headlight lighting well but the yellow from the fogs lights up the road great.

 

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Placebo effect. Yellow light does not help in the fog or the rain. You're actually putting out less light due to the film. I don't chastise you for having yellow foglights, I have them as well. But it's purely for aesthetics.

 

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Not exactly. There is indeed a scientific basis for the use of yellow light in adverse weather conditions. Obviously there is a trade-off between overall light output and the colour of the light, with some setups demonstrating a poor balance of these two attributes, but a setup that is able to provide yellow light with a relatively small reduction in output (such as PIAA's Ion Crystal) would be ideal.

 

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Placebo effect. Yellow light does not help in the fog or the rain. You're actually putting out less light due to the film. I don't chastise you for having yellow foglights, I have them as well. But it's purely for aesthetics. </TD></TR></TABLE>
I meant on the ground, not actually lighting the rain

My headlights pretty much vanish when they hit the ground, since the wet ground seems to reflect it or something. The yellow actually still partially lights the ground. Not saying it makes up for the headlights, but the area that your fogs covered is actually visibly yellow still. It's not lighting up what's ahead of me at all, just the tiny spec of ground that fogs are meant to light up.

 

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corrected

 

some look ok like the Gt3 porsches and 350z's but civics, umm, only if you have projectors, and the projector part covered in yellow, but not the whole housing.

Is it me, or do all the wheels in that link, look just a bit small for those drops? its like they dont fill the wheel well enough.

 

yellow fogs are one thing, but yellow headlights is another, very nasty thing

 

yea i like the yellow fogs, but im talking about the headlights here.

for projectors, like the Tegs, and the projectors you can buy for the civics, ive seen some that look ok, however horrible light output

 

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Not exactly. There is indeed a scientific basis for the use of yellow light in adverse weather conditions. Obviously there is a trade-off between overall light output and the colour of the light, with some setups demonstrating a poor balance of these two attributes, but a setup that is able to provide yellow light with a relatively small reduction in output (such as PIAA's Ion Crystal) would be ideal. </TD></TR></TABLE>

There is scientific basis due to the fact that your eye responds most to yellow/green light. But there is no evidence that says yellow light helps visibility more than white light in rain/fog by "cutting" through it. The beads of water are too large for light to pass through, and any color will reflect back.

 

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There is scientific basis due to the fact that your eye responds most to yellow/green light. But there is no evidence that says yellow light helps visibility more than white light in rain/fog by "cutting" through it. The beads of water are too large for light to pass through, and any color will reflect back.</TD></TR></TABLE>

In all honesty, there is not enough info to say definitively either way. There is a lot of evidence that I have seen that supports both arguments. My practical experience, and gut instincts tell me that yellow does decrease light. Yellow fogs do look pimp though, and I use yellow bulbs in mine but is purely aesthetic as far as I'm concerned.

 

green light is the most noticeable, proven.

why do so many people run red lights? i bet if green meant stop it wouldnt be such a problem, again, this is backed up by scientific research.

And the brightest, whitest light, is obviously going to iluminate more, its common sense. Yellow light is more for anti-distraction for rain/snow, because it meshes with the background, while white meshes with the foreground.

Thats why when you slap your brights on when its snowing you cant see ****.

However what are brights for? more visibility....


Oh and another proven fact, the whiter the light, the more information the human brain processes, a yellow light iluminates a certain spectrum, why leave out some of the spectrum?

 

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Exactly. I have yellow painted lenses on my OEM foglights with some Polarg Max-Clear bulbs. Great looking, but the light output is far worse than my girlfriend's clear OEM fogs put out five times the light that mine do. She can use hers like headlights. I can use mine to look cool.