My GOD you're retarded. I'm just glad you're in that Zoo the rest of us call California. Please stay there.

LMAO... you just wasted your time typing all of that for someone who couldn't care less.

Also, how much you're "worth" has nothing to do with how well your brain works (or doesn't). Oh, and i'll say that in front of a judge because it wouldn't take long before you prove yourself just by opening your mouth.

Also, FYI HIDs are technically illegal if they did not come in your car from the factory.


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HID conversion kits are illegal if any item in the kit does not comply with Federal requirements for vehicle lighting equipment. Please read the letter carefully and apply our analysis to the components of the kits you are selling. If one or more of these components does not comply with FMVSS No. 108, then you should cease the sale and distribution of this equipment. Your failure to do so could make your company liable for civil penalties for violations of 49 U.S.C. 30112(a). If your company manufactured or imported noncompliant HID conversion kits for resale, your company is required to notify this agency, dealers, purchasers, and owners of the kits and to remedy the noncompliance in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 30118-30120 and 49 CFR Parts 573 and 577. I should advise you that we know of no HID conversion kit that can be certified by its manufacturer as complying with FMVSS No. 108.


Based on a review of the Hx light source specification filed in the Part 564 docket (#3397), it is apparent that a HID Conversion kit is a significant redesign of the H1 light source. At the most basic level, an H1 light source incorporates an incandescent filament in which light is produced by a metallic wire coil heated to incandescence by an electrical current, whereas the HID conversion kit’s light source incorporates a discharge arc to produce the light and requires a ballast for operation. Thus, in order to comply with paragraph S7.7 of FMVSS No. 108, the light source must comply with, inter alia, the dimensional specifications for the metallic wire coil filament size and location, the electrical connector size and location, and the ballast would need to be a design currently on file for use with an H1 light source. Complying with the dimensional aspects of the H1 light source appears to be an impossibility considering that the wire coil filament and the electrical connector are not a part of [the HID] design. Furthermore, there are no ballast designs on file for use with an H1 light source. Thus, your company’s HID conversion kit is not a design that conforms to the Standard and could not be certified as complying with FMVSS No. 108, nor imported into or sold in the United States.





Or have fun reading this which outlines exactly why
http://isearch.nhtsa.gov/files/deetz.ztv.html

So it's one thing to put HIDs in a projector housing (which is how it was designed to work), but to blatantly disreguard common sense/other drivers/the law and put HIDs in a flector housing and drive around with them on (even in daylight) is just plain ignorant. But then again, you do follow the typical "i'm from California and that makes me better than the rest of the world and whatever I say is right". Your justification of "HIDs save lives during daytime driving" would hold as well as water in a bottomless bucket if you were to go to court simply because putting HIDs on your car was illegal to begin with.

But not only is it illegal to put HIDs in your headlights, it is also illegal to put them in your foglights. According to California Vehicle Code Division 12 - Equipment of Vehicles
Chapter 12 ; Article 2 ; Section Numver 24403

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a motor vehicle other than a motorcycle, the foglamps authorized under this section shall be mounted on the front at a height of not less than 12 inches nor more than 30 inches and aimed so that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light to the left of the center of the vehicle projects higher than a level of four inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes, for a distance of 25 feet in front of the vehicle.



So therefore, since a HID light CANNOT be aimed when placed in a reflector type housing, you are driving with an illegal modification. Yeah, if I were in Ca and saw you, i'd pull out in front of you and then take you to court and tell them that your illegal equipment's glare disoriented me and that i could not see. There is a CLEAR reason that DRL's are NOT the actual high beam that would be used at night for low visability, because it's blinding and stupid.
Not to mention that according to the NTHSA/DOT, high beams being used for DRL's cannot exceed 7,000 candela. I bet you are over that just a little bit. I'd love to see you spend the money and time to fight that one.

So, please stop acing like you know everything when you clearly don't. You're clearly what we normal people call a "one upper"...and that's far from being a compliment. And big-whoop that you drive so much. Guess what? I have multiple trophies to prove my driving capabilities, you just have a 6-figure odometer.