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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 05:42 PM
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anyone else get brights flashed at them while driving at night? on average 3 people per night flash their brights at me cause they think i have them on. i never drive with my brights on unless i know is a road that no one drives.

anyone else get flashed alot at night?
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 05:45 PM
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negative.
perhaps your lights are too bright.
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 05:48 PM
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maybe your low beams are aiming too high, try this:

http://www.trdsparks.com/displaypart...4&parts_id=712
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 05:54 PM
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are you driving on a lot of hills?
I have never got stopped for flashed b/c it's too bright, and I have HIR bulbs.
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 07:23 PM
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I drive with my headlights pointed quite a bit higher than the stock setting, with the dual silverstar mod, and I still don't get flashed.
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 07:27 PM
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I have the JDM Yellow luminics and get flashed as well. I have now just adapted my driving style to hold the headlight **** while steering and give the beams right back.
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by mattross
I have the JDM Yellow luminics and get flashed as well. I have now just adapted my driving style to hold the headlight **** while steering and give the beams right back.
i have been flashed a few times. most of the time when i get flashed(lol) its on a dark backroad.

whatever the case I definetly give it back to them like the previous poster says.
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 08:38 PM
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i have NEVER been high beamed by oncoming traffic... And my lights are aimed a bit higher than stock..
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 08:38 PM
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HIDs aside, I really hate those people (with regular headlights) who don't re-align/aim their headlights. Yes some may not know it but I've seen headlights that are waaaay off (upward). There should be a law about checking headlight aiming. It's already hard enough when a big SUV's behind you (a lot of 'em here in L.A.)
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 09:01 PM
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i get flashed at all the time.. i do it right back
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 09:02 PM
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i get flashed a lot by girls

huh huh huh

but yea, i do get high beamed about once a week.. i like it though, cuz then i hit teh high beams and its like OH WAHTS UP NOW THOSE WERE NOT MY HIGHS BEEOTCCH!!
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 09:10 PM
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some people honk at me and idky so what i do is get infront of them and start breaking, and then take a yellow light and leave them behind and just laugh. but high beams flashed never except for one night i was waiting at a light and i had my parking lights on and the person across turned his lows off and on to remind me to turn my lows on.
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 09:42 PM
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yeah i used to get flashed alot but it has kinda died down now,but i thought it was just me
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 10:18 PM
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this crap is wack, i should just drive with my highs on
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 10:27 PM
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hmm never had this problem-- although where I live almost everyone rocks the HIDs so compared, my stock lights look low..........
Old Oct 31, 2007 | 10:40 PM
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i get flashed an average of about once a week. for some reason though, a lot of idiot people where i live always drive w/ their highs on and for some even dumber reason, i don't flash them
Old Nov 1, 2007 | 01:50 AM
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I have HIDs...never been flashed. Your lows are probably aimed too high...I'ld flash you
Old Nov 1, 2007 | 05:58 AM
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you'll get a ticket if the cops see you driving with your high beams.
Old Nov 1, 2007 | 08:59 AM
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I use silverstar ultras and have never been flashed. I havent reaimed anything either, are we suppose to reaim the headlights after a bulb swap?

the cutoff is below the trunk of all the cars I drive behind, so it never hits their mirrors.

but here in so cal every other car I see on the road uses HIDs.
Old Nov 1, 2007 | 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by AcidDrop
you'll get a ticket if the cops see you driving with your high beams.
Thats a crappy law, if real. Ill forget i have my highbeamns on sometimes.

Funny story, in my previous car, i had to fix one of the pigtails, and wired it backwards, so I had one high and one low. Took me a few weeks to figure that one out



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