Extreme bright headlights

[cford36]

cford36, I have noticed the headlights on the newest GM trucks are the worst. They are just to bright and too high. On most vehicles, the fog lights don't blind you, but I bet on your truck they do, and I'm sorry to say this, why do you have your fog lights on if its not foggy.

I think the term "fog" lights is a poor term, and misleading. It may have applied in that terms more with the old yellow lights years ago, where the yellow cut thru the fog more than reflecting off of it. The current "fog" lights help considerably with the area directly in front of the vehicle. The HID's and current Halogen seem to leave the area directly in front of the dark. Like I said they are directed low and wide, they are not going to affect oncoming traffic.

Do you by chance have fog lights? You make me think you don't or have never used them because you would see the difference.

 

[cford36]

That is my issue with a lot of the new LED light bars on police cars, on a dark night, I couldn't see a cop if he stepped out from in front of his car due to being blinded by the lightbar...


When I was in Argentina in 2004-2006, we were driving a 2003 Kia minivan and a 2002 Corolla Diesel. We had people flash their lights at us frequently because they were used to the cloudy/dull lights of the other (older) cars on the road and our low beams were brighter than their high beams.

Aaron Z

I think that is still the issue here when it comes to factory HID's. They are brighter that what people are used to. It is going to take time. But here is the fact...they are not going away. What is going away are the useless old yellowish colored headlights.

 

[aczlan]

I think that is still the issue here when it comes to factory HID's. They are brighter that what people are used to. It is going to take time. But here is the fact...they are not going away. What is going away are the useless old yellowish colored headlights.

I am fine with those as they are generally not aimed at my eyes and they aren't blinking (unlike the lightbar on a police car).

Aaron Z

 

[cford36]

I am fine with those as they are generally not aimed at my eyes and they aren't blinking (unlike the lightbar on a police car).

Aaron Z

I agree, the NYS police have some extremely bright lights.

 

[edkemper]

Headlights are adjustable. As I remember things, at least in the past, all headlights had to be adjusted to the same height and left/right at a prescribed distance. If you're driving a 10' tall truck or a Porsche, they both had to hit the same mark.

If you're driving that 10' truck and pull up behind me at a stop light at night, you might end up being there for days. If I can't see because your lights are directly in my mirror, I can't see when the light turns green. Which means, we're both parked.

I drive a 2500HD so I'm not sitting on the ground. When it's endangering me, it's time to make it an issue.