[s-cars] re. Euro Lights?

[LL - NY]

I've been meaning to do this myself, and will when I finally upgrade
the UrS with my HID kit. And as the B-man said, the angle of the cut-off
is actually 15 degrees, not 45 (which would blind anyone whom happened
to be to the right of you). Learned this from
http://www.danielsternlighting.com

Now if only I could figure out how to do the same for my non-projector
Saabaru.

LL - NY

On 2/15/06, Bill Mahoney <wmahoney at disk.com> wrote:
>
>
> Brian illuminated~
> >The nice flat beam and 45 degree angle on the right
> >side of the road that's present on the Euros is
> >non-existent on the DOT's, just blurry light. There IS
> >marked difference, I know because I too thought I
> >could get by cheap when I got my avant. I bought new
> >Euro lenses and HID's and installed on the DOT's.
> >Bright light yes, nice flat cutoff no.
>
> B man
> I believe the 45o cutoff is a function of the mask on the projector.  This
> must be how euro lights are made.
> Having lobotomized my DOT's for the ecode + Chinese HID upgrade recently,
> I
> dremel'd the mask on each light 15 degrees so that instead of the light
> being cut off evenly half way up, I gained 15o extra light, up and to the
> right.  This is small but much appreciated when looking for street signs
> and
> animals at night.  If I had to do it over, instead of a straight cut 15o,
> I
> would make a few notches ala 'Jaws" for a mean looking light show on the
> rear of SUV's at traffic lights.
> This is a very worthwhile and no cost mod IME.
> Cheer's
> Bill~very bright right~M
>
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