On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:45 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 01:22 AM 12/11/2008, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>>
>> Odd... all of the American cars I've looked closely at here (including
>> 80s Chryslers) had halogens...
>
> Halogens will give just as crappy light as anything else if you put them in
> a DOT-spec headlamp...the DOT lights are the way they are because the DOT
> wants them that way, not because they couldn't do any better technically.
>  Aside from that, US RHD cars would have had their headlights replaced for
> LHD New Zealand use, no?

Sorry; I'm in Calgary right now, so I'm talking Canadian cars.

Halogen hi/lo headlight refelectors have small holes below the main
bulb hole. None of my cars have has parking lights in the headlights,
and I just seal the holes.

--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
<goose1047@gmail.com>

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