not gonna lie. I like this. Anyone had experience with it? I'm not going to ask on social media or a VAG forum. Hell no.
does it cut light? Is it legal, at least federally?
not gonna lie. I like this. Anyone had experience with it? I'm not going to ask on social media or a VAG forum. Hell no.
does it cut light? Is it legal, at least federally?
I'd like one that blocked UV to keep my lenses from fogging/yellowing.
I no longer do anything to my vehicle that can be used as an excuse for "I pulled you over because...."
Many a bullE36 M3 arrest is the result of a cop pulling you over just to berkeley with you, THEN going over the car to find the reason why he pulled you over...or so I'm told.
The car you posted pics of is a COP_MAGNET
In reply to _ :
I doubt the Feds will be writing you a ticket, but your local PD probably can. My view on these things (having been stopped and ticketed for a tinted tail light) is why give cops an excuse for pulling you over?
In reply to maj75 :
This ^^^
A few years ago when that chameleon wrap first came out, I bought some to play with on my lease. Didn't even come close to working out—definitely not as high quality as LaminX(which I do recommend for both clear and yellow applications). Probably for the best, as the cars I see around here with the color change headlight wrap are godforsaken piles of gutter trash.
No offense if you like said wrap, or are gutter trash. I personally find underbody lighting to be cool sometimes so who the hell am I anyways.
In reply to poopshovel again :
Tell me about it. I was once stopped for a tail light bulb that was "out" on my crx. Interestingly, the officer was oncoming and the lights came on before the squad car passed my headlights. Hmm... when the officer came to my window he goes "oh, not you. Well I stopped you because one of your tail lights was out." I asked which one. "Uhh I don't remember, be safe out there."
I had just gotten the car and the guy I bought from was a scumbag and had priors. Talk about profiling.
If it was that exact far in my local. Pulled over instantly. Older car with yellow glass or tinted, normally good.
In reply to ebelements :
None taken. Lol. Yeah I want to buy from laminx, since they are actual quality. They don't have this bro-chrome color though, so I'll probably dodge the bullet and just get the lamin-x blue.
Any issue with light output with these installed?
Buddy of mine had the color above on his B5 S4 Avant and honestly it didn't reduce output as bad as you would think.
Not sure what car you're wanting to put this on, but if it has a simple enough headlight shape just buy the cheap stuff and play around, there are worse ways to spend ten bucks.
Lets be honest. Modifying any DOT equipment is going to be an excuse to pull you over. It's not legal. Does anyone really care? Probably not.
I was messing around with stuff like this with some extra off-road LED pods I had. I had some translucent pink headlight tint that was used for one of my kids school projects and they wanted to see if we could make pink light. One layer of the wrap did nothing to the light output. Two layers gave it a slight pink hue, 3 layers, it started to affect the brightness and it was still only marginally pink. I think you'll be fine doing this if that's what your heart desires.
bentwrench said:I'd like one that blocked UV to keep my lenses from fogging/yellowing.
You can get clear stuff from several places that help with this. I've bought it from Weathertech in the past.
As for the original question, it's a bit too bling for me, and I don't like doing anything to reduce the effectiveness of my lights, so I'd pass.
Headlight wraps are nothing compared to people to retrofit HID bulbs into Halogen housings. THOSE are the people that need fixit tickets.
Headlight wraps aren't my personal style, but I have zero ill feelings toward them. A lot less impactful than those chrome half-moon covers that kids of the 70's were playing with. :)
Agree on not wanting to be any higher profile to the Po-po, but that's all relative for a group of folks that like sports cars and modified cars.
Tyler H said:Headlight wraps are nothing compared to people to retrofit HID bulbs into Halogen housings. THOSE are the people that need fixit tickets.
Headlight wraps aren't my personal style, but I have zero ill feelings toward them. A lot less impactful than those chrome half-moon covers that kids of the 70's were playing with. :)
Agree on not wanting to be any higher profile to the Po-po, but that's all relative for a group of folks that like sports cars and modified cars.
As long as it doesn't affect the output of light it shouldn't be worthy of a ticket, let a lone being pulled over. Most things like that are secondary offenses and would require you to be pulled over for lets say speed first in order to be ticketed for modifying a "light housing" unless you live in Australia were the LEOs like to sit outside of carshows to write tickets.
I'm guilty of swapping HIDs into halogen reflector housings. I prefer a retrofit when I can knock one out on a car. I still don't think HIDs in halogen housings are as bad as Ford and GM truck LED headlights dazzling us.
It depends on where you live. Evidently Florida could not give a flying berkeley about any sort of vehicle modification.
Which I'm fine with.
Looks like ticket city.
It also looks like something you would have seen at NOPI Nationals in 2001. I'll let that be interpreted however one wishes to interpret it.
I haven't gotten pulled over for it, but not to typecast, if I had a ratty Honda, I probably would. I've had a couple. The smoked laminx defnitely cut the output down. The yellow and chromagreen not so much. The chroma film was wayyyy thinner then proper lamin-x and looked beat after a year. Was also a bitch and half to stretch over the compound curves of the Elise. I did notice a change in color temps though. I had 6k HIDS , followed by LED bulbs and you can see the color cast shift from white.
I would have to look but I don't remember there being anything in the inspection requirements about color. Just brightness and how they are aimed.
dean1484 said:I would have to look but I don't remember there being anything in the inspection requirements about color. Just brightness and how they are aimed.
White is the only acceptable color for headlights from what I'm finding.
Yellow and amber are allowed for turn signals on the front of the vehicle.
z31maniac said:Looks like ticket city.
It also looks like something you would have seen at NOPI Nationals in 2001. I'll let that be interpreted however one wishes to interpret it.
Lmao. I know exactly what you mean! I was at NOPI drag wars in Madison/St. Louis dragstrip back in 2001
maj75 said:In reply to _ :
I doubt the Feds will be writing you a ticket, but your local PD probably can. My view on these things (having been stopped and ticketed for a tinted tail light) is why give cops an excuse for pulling you over?
Feds go after companies marketing, selling, or importing noncompliant equipment. Generally not the individual. Unless it's odometer fraud, smuggled vehicles, etc.
Local pd and stateies do as they will. Give a cop with a bone to pick an excuse at your own peril.
Cop pulls you over for this? Open beer in cup holder, weed in your glovebox then a gun falls out? Not worth it.
Don't drink and drive. You might spill it.
Looks like something that's mainly meant to annoy oncoming traffic.
stuart in mn said:Looks like something that's mainly meant to annoy oncoming traffic.
It realy doesn't affect light output at all. Like i mentioned before I had 3 layers of this pink stuff on these LED pods and it still barely looked pink.
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