!@#$% "driving" highbeams - RE: 200 to 100 headlight conversion

[Michael L. Riebs]

> >I think some of this Eurolight greatness can actually be attributed to
the
> >relaying and the higher wattage bulbs.  I know I have better things to
> >spend my hard earned $$ on.  Also the time required for proper
> installation

Yes, you get more light this way - but you are also completely disregarding
the safety of other drivers by blinding them! E-codes have a cut-off for the
light beam, so as to reduce the height of the glaring light. The 2
soloutions can not be compared!

> Disregarding other disadvantages of over-wattage DOT lights, you add
> significantly
> to the glare experienced by oncoming traffic. H4 lights allow for much
> over-wattage
> on the low beams before anybody notices anything.

AMEN!

> >I've gotton the same results from a properly installed set of Bosch or
> >Hella driving lights at far less cost.

Untrue! You have gotten similar light in front of you, at the great expense
of your fellow drivers, but who cares about that, as long as you can see! If
they can't, at least you can see them careening towards you at 70mph,
blinded by your total lack of consideration!

> I just recently realized that those lights sold as "driving lights"
> (a mystery name to me for a long time) in the US are otherwise
> (e.g. in the German-market Hella catalog) referred to as
> "auxiliary high-beams" - IOW, you're driving around with E-code high beams
> on
> (which of course have none of the anti-glare cut-off the E-code low beams
> provide)
> but hey, they're just for "driving", right?
> Which explains why
> 1. So many cars drive around with what looks like utterly blinding
> foglights,
> 2. When I flash at someone assaulting my eyes thusly, I get flashed back
> and the
> lights stay on, because the %^@&head knows he doesn't have his high beams
> on, and those
> driving lights couldn't possibly offend anybody, could they now?

I second that! Do it right, or don't do it!

Michael Riebs
Grand Rapids, MI
'90 V8Q
'98 A6QA