Modern Headlights
I see more and more of these awful, unfocused, glaring bluish headlights on 10 year old junkers. How do they pass DOT or do most of the Ebay junk lights not comply?
For vehicles that don't take standard round or rectangular sealed beams, just about all the aftermarket headlamp units, whether they're stock-lookalikes or restyled (projectors, halos, LED bars, etc) are trinkets from China, not even close to even minimal compliance with the safety standards. Total junk, no matter how much they cost.
And "HID kits"in halogen-bulb headlamps or fog/auxiliary lamps (any kit, any lamp, any vehicle no matter whether it's a car, truck, motorcycle, etc.) do not work safely or effectively, which is why they are illegal. The details
here also apply to "LED conversion" bulb kits, which also are not a legitimate, safe, effective, or legal product. No matter whose name is on them or what the vendor claims, these are all a fraudulent scam. They are not capable of producing even a fraction of the amount of light produced by the filament bulb they supposedly replace, let alone producing it in the right pattern for the lamp's optics to work.
And to think they got rid of perfectly good lighting systems that Honda spent millions designing to work right, to "upgrade" to cool blue lights, dude!
That's the hell of it. A
mountain of money, skill, talent, and effort goes into designing, engineering, tooling, manufacturing, and safety-testing even the most basic of exterior lights on a car. Yeah, let's replace it with headlite-shaped or taillite-shaped toys from China…real good idea,
not.