Most recent e-code lights also have SAE / DOT approval too - for example
the DE headlights for my BMW R1100 GS - e code and SAE approved.� The
high beams for the vanagon are both SAE and e-code, while the H4 lights
for the Vanagon are strictly e-code

As for what is legal and
what you can do is two different things!

David Marshall
VW
Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider
 
http://www.hasenwerk.ca

On Sat, August 22, 2009 12:07,
Raimund Feussner wrote:
> Yet another thing I didn�t know
about USA.
> 
> I thought, besides from california
emissons, USA car drivers could do
> whatever they want.
>
...must be the "pimp my ride" influence :-D
> 
>
So, E-code headlights are illegal in the U.S.?!
> I always read so
many postings about these being converted...
> 
> 
> Raimund
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David
Marshall schrieb:
>> Legal in the European Union and Canada is
different than legal in the
>> USA
>>
>>
For the USA, any light must have SAE or DOT markings on
>> them
- period.
>>
>> For the EU they must have the E-code
mark on
>> them.
>>
>> For Canada E-code,
SAE and DOT are all legal.  (I
>> love Canada!)
>>
>> The MTS smoked and clear lights only have
e-code
>> markings on them.
>>
>> David
Marshall
>> VW Adventure Driver and
>> BMW Adventure
Rider
>>
>> http://www.hasenwerk.ca
>>
>> On Sat,
>> August 22, 2009 11:08, Raimund Feussner
wrote:
>>
>>> Exactly.
>>> Also,
the smoked/clear taillights and front turn signal lenses have
>>>
>> a
>>
>>> german TUV
certificate (as long as they are not self-tinted,
>>>
>> but from
>>
>>> manufacturer MTS or
someone similar).
>>> More
>>>
>>
legal is impossible :-)
>>
>>> Raimund
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> JordanVw@AOL.COM schrieb:
>>
>>>>
In a message dated 8/19/09 9:51:43
>>>>
>> AM
Eastern Daylight Time,
>>
>>>>
jcarp2001@GMAIL.COM writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> ,
because I
>>>>>
>> wasn't sure if
>>
>>>>> indeed they are legal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> in all of
the jurisdiction's I would be traveling in.
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> if
the cops
>>>>
>> pulled over every honda civic
with altezza taillights
>>
>>
(aftermarket/clear/smoked/chrome/whatever) then theyd have no time for
>>
>>>> real moving
>>>>
violations.
>>>>
>>>> plus theyre no
different than the smoked tails that came stock
>>>>
>> on the
>>
>>>> '95-'99 Jetta GLX
and GTi's..
>>>>
>>>> i wouldnt
worry.
>>>>
>>>> chris
>>>>
>>>>
>