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Subject:Re: Bosch and Hella H4 Lights
From:T.P. Stephens
Date:Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:47:36 -0800

To: Per Lindgren
From: "T.P. Stephens" <doktortim@rockisland.com>

>KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> To me it is a balance between creating a driving hazard because your
>> euro-lights blind on-coming traffic, or creating a driving hazard
because the
>> DOT lights are so dim you can't see where you are going.

At 01:21 AM 11/14/99 +0100, you wrote:

>Uh, Ken, the euro lights don't blind oncoming traffic, or else they
wouldn't be
>legal here, would they? Of course, the RHD lights may do that when used in
LHD
>traffic, but that is because of their asymmetrical nature. If the H4
lights blind
>other traffic, they are not aligned or the bulb is installed improperly.

Exactomondo, when properly adjusted, they are so superior to sealed beams
it ain't even close and they cannot blind another driver unless he has a
street legal go-kart. Far less beam scatter. Precise cut off line on low
beams, more of and all the light where it should be, in front of you and
brightly on the shoulder with casting to the deer about to leap off the
cutbank. Serious safer lighting. Das Beste!!!

Doktor Tim
Maintenance Repair and Restoration of European Vehicles
San Juan Island, WA