and so i just got defected 10 mins ago..

[SHU-ES1]

I lol'd



IMO I'd change the HID's to something weaker (but then again I'm a anti HID person)


Tyre Underload, did the tyre shop let you know that when you were putting them on?

They really should have.

Good luck on staying defect free

Thanks! I'm going to try keep the HIDs cos I think they're really good for night vision. I'm just going to angle them even further down more than they are now, and see if that helps! Hopefully stay defect and fine free!

[aero]

i got done driving a civic vi!! not the typical hoon vehicle. the car standard is 560kg, and my tyres are rated at 500kg. so i'm under by 60kg, the cop said there was a chance that under heavy braking or anything that puts strain on the tyre, it could fail.

the cop is right on the load rating of ur tyres. even most insurance companies will not insure u if ur running tyres below the recommended load rating. just a safety precaution.

[dtngo]

HIDs need an auto leveling and washer system to be ADR approved. They'll usually be projector based with a hard cut off to stop blinding other drivers. I hate cars with aftermarket systems because they're blinding!

[EGB18CT]

^ditto, i dont get the point of pointing lights down to the ground just to have hids resulting in you not seeing the road properly, but yet still blinding the oncoming traffic (imagine high beams on all the time or staring into a welding torch). Unless you have done a proper retrofit with leveling system and projectors, please for your safety and the person infront of you, please get rid of them. Nothing worse i hate more than seeing a car with hids just wacked in 'cos they look good. IMO they only look good with the proper sharp cutoff, and proper focus, none of this glare shit wached into stock headlights or projector for non hid setup.

no offence, seems as tho officer was just trying to look after your safety

[spastic]

out of curiosity what does the washer system do on hids?

[mrwillz]

out of curiosity what does the washer system do on hids?

washers wash it

keep it clean

[spastic]

purely jsut for that reason? why must they be on cars with hid kits?

[mrwillz]

pretty sure thats the reason

when u have HID kit its ballin yo

[EGB18CT]

washers wash it

keep it clean

lmao hahah, yep washes it reduce reflection and deflection of light by dirt so the lights can see too.

[NeoNode]

The whole purpose of xenon lights in factory vehicles is to aid in safety by providing more illumination further up the road to detect possible hazards, so people have more time to react accordingly to the situation.

Now pointing them down to reduce glare from HID kits defeats the whole purpose intended when this technology was introduced.

The problem with that is, since i'm in NSW and this is what RTA states in their road users handbook but most likely the same for every other states, a safe driving technique is to scan further up to road for possible hazards and have enough time to react.

More crucial at night due to the fact you need to rely on your headlights to see, eg a road with no street lighting.

With the headlights now pointed downwards the only light you get is pretty much infront of the vehicle itself in comparison with OEM, since you can't see further ahead and in most cases people tend to only focus on the brightly lit part of the road, you might not have enough time to react to a possible dangerous situation because you were concentrating too much on what's infront of the car instead of further up ahead.

[bbds]

hid headlights are a defect on non-standard projector lights coz they dont have a auto levelling system

what auto levelling system?

[bbds]

SHU-ES1 I can vouch for ****n people like you running over-the-top HID's on a non standard car being ****ing annoying, its like worse than high beams in both on-coming traffic and if your behind another car, its just plain discourteous and annoying so you can think your 'awesome' with your super bright lights, if it was up to me and I was a cop I'd get my batton and smash your lights out and say go fix them with standard lights

You want HID's?.. get them the proper way and stop having a whinge you got defected for potentially blinding innocent motorists

Sorry to be harsh, just sick of some people complaining bout defects when they probably got off EASY with what they got, as others said 8k is overkill and your complaining bout running 12k and getting defected, if I ever see your car I'd highbeam and follow you for 2 hrs just so you know how annoying it is

i run 30k in my car, ill love for people like you to follow me