Just wondering, I just put them in my car and even at 26" off the ground I get flashed I cant imagine them in the truck. I'll do it anyway though, lol

 

Did you re-aim your headlights?

I put mine in back in early November of '09 and have yet to get flashed from oncoming traffic. IMO police officers won't waster their time on HID's as long as you aim them low enough and don't get the extremely blue ones (10K plus).

 

I took mine out because when I had them aimed to be just as good as my silverstars it was still too much for oncoming traffic and I would get flashed all the time. It's probably not as bad for city driving since people eye's are less adjusted for the dark. Still though even I can't stand seeing cars with crappy HID setups. Glare sucks so do it right or don't do it at all.

 

Yea i need to reaim mine. they were fine but i pulled my headlights to black them out and now they are both extremely high. before, na i would get flashed once in a blue moon. No more then i did with the stock bulbs.

 

X2 - nothing like an assclown with so little regard for his fellow motorists that he doesn't implement this correctly - with proper reflectors that provide acceptable beam patterns & cutoffs. The stock reflector, meant for an entirely different bulb technology, is NOT suitable. And the idiots running extreme blue color temps don't seem to understand that they have just destroyed any hope of seeing in the rain with any acuity. SFA. Good grief.

Throw all those snotsuckers in the slammer!

 

That's funny to you?

Clearly, your lights are NOT angled/adjusted correctly.... and if they are, your light's housing/reflectors are incorrect.

It may be a laughing matter for you, but think of the poor/innocent family/person who has to confront improper installed/aimed HID's like yours probably are and is suddenly blinded.... forcing them to perform an emergency maneuver under inclement whether/driving conditions?

You're still laughing? Now imagine that person is a loved one.....

Personally, I think HID's are great.... giving an improved field of vision and, ultimately, contributing to the "safety" factor of driving in inclement whether and/or at night.

However, it's jerkoffs who don't give a squirt of monkey's **** for the oncoming motorist's safety/well-being.... they just throw any set in their, don't bother adjusting them or checking to see that all proper compenents are installed and would rather be known by his mates as running HID's.

Does that sound like someone you know.... or see in the mirror everyday?

 

He has started a thread to see peoples opinion's on how to keep the glare down so he doesn't get flashed if you used some common sense. And for the ''loved people and their family'', I would say that there are more people's driving habit's to worry about than the glare. Yes it is a problem at times but come on, if you're driving and come across these people, you know how to deal with it if you have to, we can't help the situation's of daily commute to and from work where the sun can be rising or setting and blinding us and we 'have' to deal with that mostly on a daily basis and we do, don't we?

 

Overdramatic. I believe a simple "No, I've never been pulled over for my HID's because I have them aimed correctly" would have worked.

 

Driving into a rising/setting sun isn't anywhere near the same. You can still see, and you can aid matters by wearing sunglasses. When your eyes have adjusted for night vision, they are much mor sensitive to changes in light levels. When you get blinded by HID's, it can take several MINUTES to regain your night vision. It's not just a 3-second inconvenience. Projectors are used in OEM HID applications because they are able to focus the light correctly. Either do a retrofit of a projector into your stock housings, or find an acceptable aftermarket set of projector housings.

 

Easy bro I didn't realize that when I put the lights back in that I inadvertently pushed one assembly back to far causing it to be up to far , It was corrected when I got to work and both were aimed way down to not blind people. I meant I'll do it anyway if I'm not blinding people, I don't see many around here cause I drive somewhat rural roads and was just asking, like I said my beater is a compact and its low to the ground so before I put them in the truck where the lights are above most windshields I wanted to know how other people fared with them. Oh and by the way spell check...what the heck are compenents, So don't jump so quick. I have 2 kids myself and seeing I'm in the car not in front I cant tell if it was blinding or someone that flashes every new car with HID technology, and by the way I'm in the snowbelt in Ohio so don't tell me about inclement weather, its foggy as hell out now in January

 

Which of these two lifted F150s has HIDs?





Granted, I also have HIDs and haven't been pulled over or flashed. I also don't have blue bulbs....

 

im getting pissed off just looking at those pictures

 

hahahaha

 

Fair enough.

I apologise for my earlier outburst.

Incorrectly aimed/adjusted headlights - weather it be HID's or other - is a pet peave of mine. Nothing pisses me off more, while driving, than an oncoming vehicle with blinding heads.... that aren't high beams.

 

I would agree, and I do run HIDs but more for off-pavement purposes. They are aimed down properly and equipped with a hi/lo kit to retain high beam, I never get flashed with lowbeam HID...even with a lift kit.

But if you live near hills like I do, even proper HIDs can suck. When that Lexus LS crests the hill right in front of you coming the other way it is DAMN blinding...