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The installation of projectors scares me lol.
Because they either don't know, don't care, or both. Or, they want to join the Inconsiderate Narcissists club.
The only proper light for HID lamps is one that was designed for them. If your projector wasn't designed for HID's then it won't work. You might think it's working, but it's not. There are no motorcycles with OEM HID's available in Canada. HID headlamps require auto leveling and cleaners. This means that those aftermarket projectors are also illegal (besides the colours being illegal).
This video demonstrates the problem. HID lamps generate in the neighbourhood of 3 ~ 4 times the lumens per watt of tungsten halogen lamps. This means your head light needs to deal with 3 times the amount of light. In the video we can see that this set-up is doing a very poor job dealing with all the light; the near ground is grossly over lit. The camera is compensating for all the light to the point we can see nothing beyond the cut-off. Even though there is also 3 times the light above the cut-off we can't see anything. Our eyes compensate in the same fashion. People who have HIDs think they're seeing more because they see so much in the near ground, but their vision is actually impaired for distance.
In city driving you might not notice as much if there is good street lighting. In the country it becomes very dangerous. In the country while it's raining you will only see a few feet in front of the vehicle.
This is not Acura's fault. Acuras have shipped with projectors for many years now, but only the last few years with HIDs. They are different systems. The lights you are complaining about have no doubt had HIDs installed in lights designed for halogen bulbs.
There seems to be a basic misunderstanding about projector headlights; it's true that most (virtually all) HID headlights are projectors, it is not true however that all projectors are designed for HIDs.
If you get a chance sometime, compare a tungsten halogen bulb to a HID burner; The light kernels are of a different shape, a different size, often in a different orientation and a different colour. A lot more science and engineering goes into your headlights than sticking in an illegal non-standard counterfeit HID lamp and expecting it to work.
Stock brand new acuras, bmw, audi... etc do it too. Auto leveling is a reactive system. First it blinds you for a split second then it moves down. Even then it's still blinding.
I get it, being loaded allows you to skip lines, check in faster, kill people... blind people and be a snob when others can do it for $35.
you just don't get it.
here let me help you understand a little better
In my opinion this level of stupidity should be met with a hammer, rock, or whatever is near by
And to clarify for the moderators im not calling anyone in particular stupid, just the modification that people are performing. No need for an infraction![]()
Last edited by Paul1000RR; 02-28-2013 at 12:51 PM.
Wow you found a few examples of shitty installs on the internet. Congrats. You can find a shitty example of anything out there.
"Few" examples?
Have you been on the roads in toronto?
Not only motorcycles run these "sick HIDS yo", so do the cars. And its usally 15 year old civics lol
When you are completely blinded and almost crash as a result of these sick setups i think its fair to say its not a "few"
Remove the cut off shield. Get the best of both worlds...
Sadly 95% of the examples on the road are horrible ones. HID's belong in a projection housing only. Anything else spreads the beam and is a hazard. As said above, rock, hammer, with any luck a tree.... anything to fix those idiots driving down the road with blinding set ups.
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