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Brian Timms Goo Roo New South Wales TT Soarer Goodness.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 06:10 pm, by: Brian Timms(Turbo_brian)
Scott Casey wrote on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 11:03 am:
everyone's flashing their headlights to tell me to turn them down and my headlights are looking at the ground and need adjusting up!!!!
This is the problem with incorrect projector types.
Something people dont understand is Normal style 'dull' globes are matched to the normal style 'dull' projectors, which are designed to throw 4% of light upwards to illuminate street signs, and provide the light that people oncoming see.
Now, when you wack a set of HID globes into these projectots, you also through up the 150% brighter light up, making it seem like this 4% is 12% or more light.
No matter how low you adjust the headlights, your still throwing 4% light straight up, so it makes no difference.
Park something like a Honda Accord Euro, and a Soarer next to each other, both fitted with HID headlights (Honda stock, Soarer retro-fitted) and you will see the difference in setups.
The Honda will show a very nice straight light cut-off point, but the Soarer will show a bump and light being pushed up at the left (designed to illuminate the side of the road for animals and pedestrians).
Swapping HID into stock projectors simply because they are projector lenses will not make a perfect setup. It will give YOU better light, but will blind oncoming people, no matter what you do.
