I just leveled mine out & I still get people every now & then flashing me. I love it when I am in back of some ricer with his girl or friends and think they are the **** sitting there at the stop light. Once I come up on them they are cupping their hands over their side view mirrors and adjsuting the rear view. I have only replaced my heads and fogs with silverstars so far. I would love to get some HIDS on day

 

I guess I never realized people love to annoy others. It is one thing to have loud, obnoxious, redneck exhaust...but HIDs blatantly in the wrong housing (*read* illegal, mis-aimed and feeling good about it? I guess I am the only fool who thinks this is just retarded. Not only stupid but seemingly encouraged here. This sort of thinking makes the average public look at customized and altered trucks, making them similar in their eyes to the Honda with the fart can next to you at the light. No difference at all.

I mean what happens when a car is temporarly incapacitated by you illegal lights and drives into you head-on? Yes you have an F-150 so you will fair well in the actual accident, but the liability for driving with knowingly illegal lights or even mis-aligned lights is not a far fetched reason for a lawsuit.

Coming from a somewhat immature 23 year old, grow up guys...and I am not here to argue about HIDs, lights with regards to leveling, lifts etc, just common sense and courtesy.



I guess this is the reason why I carry a 1 million candle power Q-beam, strobes, train horns...to stoop that low and let you know you are being an @$$hole. I don't mind really.

 

My headlights are aimed lower with my hids.

 

Operating a motor vehicle is serious business...
More Americans are killed each year on U.S. roads in Motor Vehicle mishaps than were Killed In Action during the entire 15 year Viet Nam War.

Many here spend big money on mods and pride themselves on how their vehicles perform and or look. How strange so many willfully leave a component mis-adjusted and improperly performing to intentionally distract, disturb or just be rude to strangers because of laziness or arrogance in many cases?

Maybe someone they love gets blinded and seriously injured or killed by someone that thinks like them. Maybe it takes a few personal deaths...maybe one they cause to take motor vehicle operation serious.

 

Well its not any different than having some lil ricer behind me with his music so loud and his bass turned up so much that I cannot hear a fireturck or police siren due to his music. Talk about bull****. But hey thats ok and cool to have your music loud isn't it ? Twice I have had to roll my windows down at an intersection to hear sirens coming at me and if I had not I would have been hit due to someone's loud music either behind or next to me. I realize that not all ricers have loud systems but around my area most of hem do so in my world karma is a biaaaatch when I roll up on them with my non adjsuted lights !

 

You think it's ok to punish everyone you drive around at night and basically say you are no better than the inconsiderate (will be deaf one day) fool with the loud music because his misdeeds make you feel better about your misdeeds?
If either or both of you get someone hurt or killed by your actions which hurt or dead person is better off?
How do you think it would be on the road if everyone reacted to rude things others did they didn't like?
2 wrongs= 2 wrongs.

 

Does anyone know how high the headlights are supposed to be? yall seem to be full of telling us how we do wrong by not adjusting our head lights but do yall know how high they are supposed to be? I too have a lifted truck and never thought about re-aligning them. i never get flashed at but i might as well check. So does anyone know how high the headlight beams are supposed to be at a set distance?

 

Just check your state law on headlights, they very from state to state. In New Hampshire HID's are pretty much a no-go and they check to make sure your headlights are aimed properly every year during the state inspection.

 

im in texas and they dont check headlight aim anymore. so i cant find it on the internet. so is there just a "curtious" height to have the head lights?

 

For proper aim...there is a machine any good sized auto repair shop has for aiming headlights. Some just tape a line on the wall where they were before a lift or drop.

If the state doesn't have annual inspections it's up to the cops, State Trooper and or Highway Patrol to give you "fix-it" tickets when they see a violator, feel in the mood or maybe don't like the way you are driving and are looking for an excuse if all else fails AND as more trucks violate the laws, eventually there will be a crusade against lifted trucks. They will assume you are wrong and profile for an easy ticket.

Headlights and proper headlight aim are primarily to see down the road properly. Nothing more...nothing less. If im not mistaken properly adjusted Lo beam headlights give you about 350 feet of illumination. If they are too high or too low you will not see as far.
On a good dry road it takes 250 feet to stop from 55mph. Add in reaction time, truck weight and mis-adjusted lights and you are a mishap waiting to happen. Some here like to tint the windshield which cuts night vision even more.

The roads and highways are worse than a combat zone.
It's sad to see people knowingly and willfully induce a safety hazard/violation on their vehicle and brag about it.

 

I just installed my AS 2" leveling kit yesterday. The first thing I did afterwards was get the wife to drive down the road in front of me. She told me I was blinding her, so I will definitely be adjusting my headlights. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing cool about blinding other drivers on the road. And that BS about the thumping rice burners... C'mon dude... You've got to be kidding me.