Cat Man HHR

Hi
I don't understand why you would install super bright headlight bulbs. Is it an ego thing? I saw a car tonight with lights that were like "hot white". Worse than if you had your high beams on.
Didn't know where to post this, if it's in the wrong place please move it.
Thanks

Oldblue

Could have been another one who doesn't adjust the lights down a little bit.

donbrew

The lounge.

They do it to blind us old fogeys with the beginnings of cataracts!

Grizzly old man

One of the first things I did when we got our HHR was to buy a set of 'super bright cool blue' headlights for it.

Ya see, the originals had the yellowing of the headlight covers going on with them so the light coming out of the front of the car was dimmed by this.

As time passed my wife managed to put cracks in both of them so I got replacement headlights off a vendor on eBay.

Now several years later the cool blue super bright headlights have been replaced with regular light bulbs. The lenses are still clear on the replacement headlights so seeing things in front of the car is still very good.

Some of those guys that just have to have the blindingly bright projector headlights do bother me a lot but like donbrew said I have the beginnings of cataracts nowadays so I can handle it. If takes more light to bother me now that I'm older.

bigdehart64

The problem are these HID bulbs. People put these bulbs in a regular housing that are not designed for them. Thats why you get that blinding light. These people think by having these bulbs they will see better. Not true if its not in the proper housing. Instead of properly focusing the beam giving you greater viability at night it just scatters it. Proper bulb and maintenance is key to safe driving for everyone on the road.

donbrew

It's the opposite with my cataracts, it just doesn't take much to hurt, it's the temperature of the light. Especially in the rear view.

I had a Prius running behind me one night it was absolutely killing me, I had to pull over to the shoulder to get him to pass me. Turned out regular low beams.

I hate driving in NJ because of those projectors they all think they need.

Oldblue

Strange that you don't like the projector lights from New Jersey, after all it was Bruce Springsteen from NJ who wrote "Blinded by the Light" and it was a big hit for Manfred Mann and the Earth Band."
I have not driven at night yet to test the auto dim mirror I got from VinceP. I get a lot of tall 4X4 trucks that insist on having high beams and fog and driving light all a blaze, just cause they're there!

Cat Man HHR

I sense an ego thing.

Oldblue

5:30 this morning driving wife to hospital and noticed the auto dim works! Awesome option, thanks to VinceP!!
And to the 4X4 behind me thanks for the test, but are we in Baja, why do you need all those lights? Even his roof LED bar was lit up, trying to compensate for something??