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warwickben · Jul 21, 2007

whats the deal with installing h.i.d lights. i live in mass, can you fill me in on the legal side.

GTPhreak · Jul 21, 2007

warwickben said:
can you fill me in on the legal side.

Yeah, its illegal

stykthyn · Jul 22, 2007

why is it illegal?

t3t4_4g63 · Jul 23, 2007

all sorts of cars are coming from the factory with those bright ass h.i.d lights. they piss people off when your behind them but they're not illegal.

stykthyn · Jul 24, 2007

when they are aimed right they are not so bad when they are behind you. it is the aftermarket that puts out cheap kits with lights that are the wrong color temp that blind the $hit out of you

Red_LX · Jul 25, 2007

I was told that there was some sort of problem with installing HID's into stock headlight housings, but now I can't remember what it was.

GTPhreak · Jul 25, 2007

OEM HID is legal.

ALL aftermarket drop in kit/retrofit/etc is ILLEGAL due to DOT regulation.

t3t4_4g63 · Jul 25, 2007

i guess its just another one of those state by state laws cuz i live in alabama and have never heard oh h.i.d.'s being illegal. and there are a lot of cars with aftermarket lights! i would say go to your police station/court house and ask them.

Dr_EluSivE · Jul 25, 2007

It takes a much different design of the reflector inside the headlight. HID Headlights are designed with this in mind, Standard Halogen fixtures are not. I dont think it so much that the lights themselves are Illegal, Its that using the standard fixtures there aiming and Way the light is dispersed is illegal.

Dr.

65ShelbyClone · Jul 25, 2007

Don't you also lose the highbeams when the stock lights are a combination low/high bulb like our Mustangs have?

stykthyn · Jul 26, 2007

65ShelbyClone said:
Don't you also lose the highbeams when the stock lights are a combination low/high bulb like our Mustangs have?

would you really need high beams?

t3t4_4g63 · Jul 26, 2007

hahaha, all the h.i.d.'s that i've seen are brighter then the brights!? so.....i guess not.

GTPhreak · Jul 26, 2007

Is this on cars with HID "kits"? Vehicles with HID as OE use either bi-xenon projectors or have a secondary halogen for high beam. This brightness you talk about is GLARE which is why people *think* they are brighter because there is no beam control. This is also one of the reasons why they are ILLEGAL according to DOT.

65ShelbyClone · Jul 26, 2007

Do you guys even use your high beams? They are not just brighter, they point further down the road also. 100w-equivalent HID low beams aren't going to help you see 1/4mi down the road when they're pointed at the ground in front of the car. If you aim the light buckets upto compensate, that's not only illegal, it is also going to blind oncoming traffic(like police) and you can't dim them on demand.

GTPhreak said:
Is this on cars with HID "kits"? Vehicles with HID as OE use either bi-xenon projectors or have a secondary halogen for high beam.

That's what I'm talking about .

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