Depends if it's edible or not after hitting it.. if not, make the effort to swerve... LMAO!
LED headlights lumens too high for on-road use?
- Thread starter JESTER801
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The one deal with new bright headlights that I don't really know how to deal with is they don't adjust automatically. Newer vehicles with bright headlights have to be equipped with auto-leveling headlights to help reduce the problem. A Jeep, especially one on 35" tires and a lift is pitching all over the place and you are always going to be flashing drivers at night unless you live in some part of American where the roads don't suck. The beam pattern, no matter how expensive or perfect it is still is bouncing around when you drive so it essentially sucks. I'm not saying it's a reason to get or not get anything, it's not a big deal to me but it is something I've considered when I look at expensive headlights.
I don't know about everyone else, but I find all the LED/HID lighting on newer cars blinding. I have customers that complain all the time about their $70K Tahoe/Suburban/Escalade blinding on coming drivers.
The stock LED tail lamps are also bright as hell.
My knockoff LED headlamps are aimed properly and I rarely ever get flashed by other drivers.
The stock LED tail lamps are also bright as hell.
My knockoff LED headlamps are aimed properly and I rarely ever get flashed by other drivers.
LOL,
To some, seeing fear in their eyes is exciting but to me I got tired of either swerving or slamming on brakes due to not seeing them early enough to take appropriate action, hence I mentioned seeing them before they dart out.
I nearly hit a barn owl flying at windshield level, and black cows with their rear ends to you don’t reflect much. Armadillos are not reflective, although skunks and opossums’ broadside or head on are. Coyotes and dogs are more predictable but cats and deer are not. A scared horse on asphalt was interesting to say the least.
Co-worker was driving in to work at around 0430 on the country road that went by me. A black bull had escaped its paddock. Co-worker's Prius was totaled...
Tray Burge
TJ Addict
When I hit my deer it looked right at me on impact as if to say "oh fuck me" and literally shit all over my front end and windshield on impact and then made this loud audible "gruuuuunt" as it slid across the street into someone's driveway by their mailbox where it layed until the vulchers ate him.
kenosha whiz six
TJ Enthusiast
If I remember correctly, it was a metallic burgundy color - but that may have been the new one he bought to replace the wrecked one with. It was years ago, the memory fades...
kenosha whiz six
TJ Enthusiast
hmm,sounds like your headlights were aimed too low...?if said deer looked you right in the eyes at impact,he must not have been 'blinded by the light'so to speak.re-aim your headlights,but not at a wall,instead aim them on a 3d archery deer target
LONGJP2
TJ Expert
Just out of curiosity, do you know the proper distance to follow behind a vehicle? Or at what point you outdrive the capability of your headlights?
I know the exact distance. It is the exact amount of space that is just slightly smaller than the car in the next lane that is trying to cut in and slightly longer than the sight line over the hood of my truck to see in the rear window of the Civic in front of me. How did I do?
I'm actually not kidding.
I like my Toyota lights.
Them cheap LED'S, especially unadjusted, suck. Then they fade to a nice yellow and suck even more.
Them cheap LED'S, especially unadjusted, suck. Then they fade to a nice yellow and suck even more.
You won't get far in SoCal - or any crowded city freeway - unless you drive exactly like this. Like my late father used to say, "If you can get a fender in, get it in and GO!"