[s-cars] Group Buy for Hella Smoked Rear Tail Lights

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

The smoked taillights (Hella OEM) are actually
brighter than the DOT's, FWIW.


--- TM <t44tq at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Smoked taillights might reduce your visibility, but
> they're no worse
> than the Mustang and Camaro drivers with smoked
> taillight and headlight
> covers.
> 
> Taka
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf
> Of Dave Forgie
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:21 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: [s-cars] Group Buy for Hella Smoked Rear
> Tail Lights
> 
> 
> Just remember that, while going with the smoked
> taillights might look
> cool, in fact you will be cutting down the
> visibility of your car.  What
> many North Americans forget is that in order for the
> smoked taillights
> to be German TUV-approved, you have to add passive
> red reflectors on
> your bumper, etc.  to maintain the same level of
> night visibility as
> with the OEM taillights.  These reflectors strips
> are often left off
> here (N Am.) because they are "dorky" (or whatever).
>  In fact they are
> required.  I think it would be interesting if your
> car was rear-ended
> and a savvy insurance adjuster figured out what was
> going on.  I suspect
> that you would be SOL.
> 
> But, hey, that's just me and my paranoid mind. 
> Personally, I converted
> my rear foglights (both sides) to run two filament
> 5/21W bulbs so I have
> 3 x 5W x 2 = 30 W for running lights (versus 1 x 5W
> x 2 = 10 W for Euro
> taillights)  and 42 W per side for signal lights.
> 
> Dave F.
> 
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