Ahh baloney.� And that is the point of the question.� Yes the federal government wants you to believe all that, and maybe it is true in some reflectors.� For years we've all stuffed higher output halogen's in stock reflectors that are illegal as well, or as illegally run european H4 relfectors, or what have you.� My point on the Rav is that I personally (yeah, not scientific at all) feel no significant glare to oncoming drivers is produced and so does 14 months of not getting flashed for them.� But I'm easily willing to accept that for some instances this might not be the case, ie. perhaps�in a stock Vanagon reflector, or it might be, which is what I'm trying to find out.
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YMMV.
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John

--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:

That's a bad idea. I'm assuming your're talking about the kits which place a HID bulb where a halogen used to be. Proper HIDs are a system - bulb position, reflector and lens are all designed to produce a proper beam. The arc in a HID is a different size/shape than a filament, and retrofit kits produce significantly more glare for other drivers. Leave it to the pre-pubes who want to be cool with their low output 9000K (more is better! not) purple lights.