With headlight eyelids/eyebrows, whatever you want to call them, they can tame any LED or HID that overpowers the reflectors from too high of a cut-off/glare...
high cutoff/glare is only one issue with putting LED or HID "kits" in a halogen housing - as stated in post one, the primary issue is getting the right amount of the right type of light in the right places.
Even many aftermarket halogen aren't legal, like Philips Diamond Vision, so I definitely don't care about that part as long as the lights truly have great cutoff and no glare.
The Diamondvision are complete ass but I believe they are indeed legal.
Some LED's (FINALLY) are spectacular in that area now, some great example pics in my LED thread... But I can see this specific HID design as working well as it addresses the too long length of regular HID bulbs by being shorter AND with the anti-glare blockers, but you don't even address that and fall back to all the talking points on regular HID.
again - the issue with LED or HID "kits" is that they do not put the right amount of light in the right places. The "talking points" at this point are like, decades of empirical research and testing.
To me, it's worth taking a closer look at as someone always looking to learn about the latest stuff and these also have a great guarantee backing them... As far as sales, too many people just accept the given rules and don't bother to research enough,
Sure, but you're taking a small marketing blurb over decades of empirical research. It's not inconceivable that the "latest and greatest" technologies could have been discovered by some fly-by-night company working out of a Chinese sweatshop, but surely you and I will agree that it's
unlikely that such a company would have figured something out before Sylvania, Philips/Osram, or similar companies who employ some of the best automotive lighting engineers in the world to design OEM and aftermarket lighting systems, all of whom have reached the conclusion, at great cost to them and to manufacturers who have to design multiple types of headlight, that it can't be done.
that's one reason why many things never take off, people are too lazy to think outside the box.
I assure you that aftermarket LED and HID kits have very much taken off, and, in fact, are
quite popular.
To me it doesn't make sense to live in 2014 lighting rules forever man, I'm just saying it's always worth taking a look at new technologies as long as you keep the knowledge you presented as a strong background and cautiously consider other stuff.
These aren't "new technologies," they just shortened the length of the filament so it doesn't illuminate the entire reflector. People have been marketing that type of product for
at least a decade, I remember when they were the "next big thing" in like 2007. As far as this specific product goes, You can see from the photos (noticeably
not taken in the same place under the same conditions) that they don't have much light above the cutoff, but a very narrow beam full of hotspots. Again, glare is only one issue with HID kits - the
primary issue, same as any other type of light, is putting the right amount of light in the right directions. This kit, like all other kits, does not do this. Please refer to Post #1 and the linked posts within for details as to why. The idea that people are living in "2014 lighting rules" is silly, as, despite how truly strange the world has gotten, the laws of physics haven't changed since 2014.
This is, in terms of the underlying mental schema, approaching flat-earth/anti-vax stuff. There's tons of well-documented empirical research and established science done by reputable people over decades, but you read something that a salesman wrote on the internet and now you're not so sure and think we should "keep an open mind" and "think outside the box." C'mon man, use your head.
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