Headlights!
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Ha, I know exactly what you mean by that. I think it's cool how the suspension reacts.5PADZAM said:
TheMAN said:
Is the first pic a P5? More importantly, is that the H7 Hyper "Race" bulb made by Osram?
BTW, I have NO cutoff at all. Even with the brightest of bulbs (Osram Silverstar) it's not noticeable.
Kansei said:
different reflector
nothing to suspect with the EDM headlights to begin with! they are required to have that form of beam pattern from the headlights! the USDM s*** was created purely for marketing reasons because there was a fair amount of people bitching about the sharp cutoff in some headlights (such as the sedan ones)
the high beams are also better... it uses an H1 bulb instead... what's cooler is, it has a city light (parking light) inside the high beam reflector area because using amber parking lights (especially in combination with the turn signal) is illegal outside of north america
I'd still love to get my hands on those black (03 only) headlights... but damn are they ******* expensive (due to the manual leveling motors built in also)!
TheMAN said:
Are there EDM headlights without the leveling motors? I understand the purpose of the motors, but 800 a piece for headlights is nearly twice the retail price for the canadian headlights, that's hard to justify since we're talkin more than 4x the cost of the usdm headlights.
I did know about the city lights, that's really pimp. So on the euro lights there's a white city light, and the amber only comes on for turn signal (probably a single filament bulb)? Very interesting indeed. I wanted to get some LED cluster retrofits I saw before that did a white light and amber for turn signal.. would achieve pretty much the same effect but would just use the turn signal location in the headlight to do it.
If there was a way to source just the reflectors that would be so uber awesome, but I wouldn't expect that level of parts granularity from any car company.
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- carbon grey 2005 SP23 sedan
granularity is a big word
Kansei said:
US law making philosophy, especially automotive safety related is very different from European ones... basically if there isn't any dead bodies, it's "safe"
Also there's the issue of the NIH syndrome... "the stuff we invented is better than their's" regardless of when it was invented... plus the fact that the big 3 b**** about how much more it'll cost them money if the lighting regulations were tightened up... you can say it's nonsense because making 2 different types of headlights (RHT and LHT legal for all countries depending on which road type used) for one vehicle is much cheaper than 3 (RHT, LHT, and DOT)... guess what? they don't care because they sell a s*** load of their bad cars here and hardly any overseas (because it's s***, no one outside of north america wants them other than pure novelty reasons)... so as far as the economics of the status quo is concerned, the additional expense at making ECE lighting equipment is offset by the huge quantities of the CHEAP ass DOT s*** that they put on the domestically sold cars... Also, you have to consider that they don't want to allow or outright follow ECE rules simply because the big 3 wants the foreign automakers to go through the additional expense at developing and making DOT lighting equipment... costs which gets passed down to the consumer... to that effect the car is more "expensive" and therefore people will buy the "cheaper" american car instead (crazy) so to sum it up? it's stupid, they're arrogant, and they don't care
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- carbon grey 2005 SP23 sedan
city lights? pics?
I can post tomorrow. Too tired today. It is not useless w/o the projectors. Just make sure to aim them so that you don't blind people.
The point of projectors mainly is to focus the light so that there is not much glare. I've had HIDs for a few months with no issues.
mspeedP5
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Dude, if your lights are shining in the trees they need to be aimed correctly.
