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Article #1863Re: Outrageous Headlights
From: Todd Palino
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:00
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John R Cambron <connie@mail.drsystems.com> wrote: > ---Halogen headlamps---There not out of adjustment there just to damm > bright I will Not put them on my 86 Blaser or any other car that I have owned. No, this is false. I have Hella H4 halogen headlights on my car, and they are brighter than most headlights out there (80 watt low beams). As they are adjusted properly, I *never* get flashed by oncoming traffic. Why is this? It is because the halogen headlights, unlike incandescents, have a sharper cutoff. My headlights are adjust so that the do not come above the trunk of any car in front of me, no matter what the distance. Adjusted this way, I can see the road perfectly, and a lot more safely than anyone with incandescent lights. With incandescents, you should not be driving over 40 mph, as you can't see any further than that with those kinds of headlights. Just because you choose not to use a product, this doesn't make it bad. And nor are halogens bad because half the people out there don't know how to adjust them. When used properly, they are safer both for the driver and the other people on the road who are not blinded by lights improperly adjusted (and this happens even with incandescents. -Todd Palino
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108659,965af7b8ade2284e X-Google-Attributes: gid108659,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,965af7b8ade2284e X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,965af7b8ade2284e X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: "Todd Palino" <palino@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: Outrageous Headlights Date: 1997/02/18 Message-ID: <01bc1d38$b50e0420$3d4374cf@dilbert> X-Deja-AN: 219492917 References: <33066ADE.69AE@jps.net> <33091DD4.1776@mail.drsystems.com> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Newsgroups: dc.driving,ca.driving,aus.cars