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Car People: My headlights suck
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Tipztoe
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Car People: My headlights suck
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do you at least have a nice bumper?
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Reapist
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Registered: 2001-12-20 03:56:16
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An alternator not being up to par will only be a problem until the battery is drained.
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Date Posted:
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Reapist posted:
An alternator not being up to par will only be a problem until the battery is drained.
Well, it'll still be a problem after the battery is drained, to be fair.
dc, make sure your headlights are aimed correctly. It sounds like they aren't. And if they are, and you decide to buy new bulbs, please stay away from the Silverstar or PIAA crap. Anything with a tint is running significantly more watts than it should (think: putting a 100-watt bulb into a 60-watt lamp in your house). They have to run higher wattage to even come close to providing enough light, because they're blocking a portion of the light spectrum. And, even then, they provide less light than a decent bulb from a company like Phillips or Osram (Sylvania).
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Reapist
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Ferd, the point I'm making is that you can pretty much eliminate that as part of the problem with the headlights not doing a good job. You would soon realize the headlights were in fact not the problem, but a symptom of the problem.
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deadcactus
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Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
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Jezza_Belle posted:
seriously, you didn't think to re-aim them already?
Actually, I did. I don't think that's it so I thought I'd ask around for some other options to put on the differential before I go start the investigation...
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Reapist
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Are they the kind that go inside a plastic box? Maybe the outside lens need to be polished.
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Registered: 2000-12-20 06:45:24
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Jezza_Belle posted:
It is the headlights not being aligned right, because so many idiots don't know how to do it.
http://www.automedia.com/Aiming_Headlights/ccr20010801ha/1
nice link...but that's not all that often unless it's people with those ultra brights.
9 times out of 10 it's the high beams on.
here in MA we are the most inconsiderate drivers on the planet i think and i dont witness alignment as the problem.
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deadcactus
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Reapist posted:
Are they the kind that go inside a plastic box? Maybe the outside lens need to be polished.
http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/featured/lights_-and-_bulbs/1461463709.html
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take it someplace like auto zone or pep boys, ask them, and let them give it a quick look.
then you can buy the part there and fix it up.
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deadcactus posted:
Reapist posted:
Are they the kind that go inside a plastic box? Maybe the outside lens need to be polished.
http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/featured/lights_-and-_bulbs/1461463709.html
Yeah. So sometimes the outside get frosted up some and it's hard to get light thru. But you would have to be the judge of that. There are a few things it could be, but someone who can see it has to make the call.
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