High powered lights?

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Glaucus

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Do the new high powered lights annoy anyone else? I actually think there dangerous. If your in front of said car. They kill your night vision and blind you from the mirrors. I have no problems with bright main beams. But dip lights should have a maximum output and these new types banned.

If you're using dips your either following someone or are in a lit area. So why do they need to be so bright?

Anyone else find this or is it just me?
 
They don't bother me at all if correctly adjusted. Secondly, dimmer on rear view mirror is there for this exact reason.
 
nope don't bother really, apart from when an oncoming HID-equipped car drives over the brow of a hill, its pretty damn bright when you face the full force of their xenon beams.

What does really hack me off though, are fog light numpties. Seriously, do they think they look cool or something with the fogs on when it isn't even dark let alone foggy. GET A LIFE, TURN THE ****ING THINGS OFF! On top of the stupid use issue, they are actually quite annoying to have behind you in the dark, their light is just infuriating.
 
paradigm said:
They don't bother me at all if correctly adjusted. Secondly, dimmer on rear view mirror is there for this exact reason.
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Side mirrors. ;).

And I assume they are properly aligned at most of the new bmws etc come with HID bulbs?

Also agree on fog lights.
 
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Clarkey said:
What does really hack me off though, are fog light numpties. Seriously, do they think they look cool or something with the fogs on when it isn't even dark let alone foggy. GET A LIFE, TURN THE ****ING THINGS OFF!
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quoted for truth
 
All xenons should come with auto levellers. When a car accelerates behind you though or goes over a rough road you sometimes get a little distracted, nothing too bad though.
 
I'm neither pro nor anti foglights... but I can honestly say that I have never been blinded by foglights. What situations does this occur in?

But badly adjusted lights - darned irresponsible and dangerous.
 
I'm usually pretty tolerant of modern headlight, but I really get wound up by the big-ass SUVs with Xenon's. Mainly Range Rovers and the Porsche Panzerwagon. The lights are too high IMO and just bore into the back of your skull and out the other side just to dazzle me.

I've had to pull over and let them pass a few times on the M6/M74 when I was trekking to and from Scotland late at night and there was very little other traffic around.
 
JayMax said:
I'm neither pro nor anti foglights... but I can honestly say that I have never been blinded by foglights. What situations does this occur in?

But badly adjusted lights - darned irresponsible and dangerous.
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I don't get blinded by them, just irritated at the fact that some people don't understand when they are meant to be used, which I think is what Clarkey is on about. I know that there are always loads of threads about people blinding others with headlights, and also foglights, so I'm not going to aid in the derailing of this one.

I have no problem with any lights, if it may be deemed to me as being rather bright, I just don't stare.

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JayMax said:
I'm neither pro nor anti foglights... but I can honestly say that I have never been blinded by foglights. What situations does this occur in?

But badly adjusted lights - darned irresponsible and dangerous.
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It's not so much the light itself, but the mentality of the foglight driver. I mean, what reason would there be, when it gets dark, to decide against putting the headlights on like a normal person, but instead go right for the foglight switch? The only possible scenario I can come up with is that they think it makes them look cool. It doesn't, it makes them look like a ****.

As for the actual lights, they can be annoying when the road is wet, they reflect the light up off the wet surface into your face. And they just look annoyingly stupid in your rear view mirror.
 
*guards his Xenons and growls at anyone trying to take them away*

I've never had complaints or lights being flashed at me from the ones in the S3, but they have a very distinct cut-off at the top of the beam, which most aftermarket ones and some standard fit ones I've seen don't seem to have. I don't think I could go back to ordinary lights now :(

As a Driver I want as much light as possible :)
 
Fog lights don't really bother me anymore.

Badly adjusted headlights however, do. Yes, I can dip the mirror but I shouldn't have to... just because Mr Numpty behind can't align his headlights properly.
 
I cant complain, because i have stupidly bright headlamps and get flashed reguarly, and have auto dimming on all mirrors so from behind i never notice anything.

The joy of the big merc :p
 
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