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Originally posted by leathermang
It is the 400 percent figure for the LOW BEAMS which worries me the most...
Because most people can figure out how to put their beams on LOW... but if they are misadjusted and putting out that much more then it is not pleasant for people coming from the other direction...
I agree that many have too much light power these days... Often I flash my lights thinking they have forgotten to dim there and find they ARE ON LOW....
And it is worse on country roads at night.... down here they are pretty narrow...
It used to be illegal to place white lights below a certain height off the road... now I see NEW trucks with lights too low...and they shine in other's eyes STOCK from the factory....and they used to have to be wired to where they would turn OFF when your other lights were on Low... these new ones don't....
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400% is sales hype somewhat. What that is actually refering to is the improvement in light projection, not brightness.
Yes we have the same problem here in the Ozark hills with nerrow 2 lane roads and curve speeds posted down as low as 15 mph. havlf the time back here they will drive in the dark without lights and when you flash at them they flash back and keep going without lights.
Lot's of those lights are dealer installed, but you are right even the mfg's no longer follow a lot of the DOT rules. Ford trucks for a long time had lights that would not meet DOT regs, do you remember those early '80's Ford's. The lights said DOT on them but they would fail an actual DOT test. I think we will be moving to something similar to E-code before much longer.