Saturday, December 2, 2023

What's up with the yellow headlights?

 


19 comments:

  1. Yellow headlights used to be compulsory in France: not any more. Interestingly they never have been in the UK but for some reason they are permitted.

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  2. Keep out the bugs.

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  3. The yellow wavelength causes less glaring effects in foggy conditions, so the driver can see a little bit better and his car is seen better than with white lights…

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  4. In Utah snow storms at night, I would turn on the yellow and turn off the regular halogen and it was like night and day, wasn't legal, but I didn’t care as I wanted to live.

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  5. I used to see yellow aftermarket fog lights back in the 60's. Mostly on imports/sports cars.

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  6. That thing actually looks pretty cool head on.

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  7. I use my regular headlights but put on yellow-lens shooting glasses. Takes all the glare out of the fog or snow.

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  8. Headlights, they have been a scam ever since they were "deregulated" decades ago. "But I got better," as they say in Monty Python.

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    1. Back in the '80's I had an Audi 5000. It has the four small headlights but was wired to a standard H-4 plug. I put four 55-110 wat bulbs in and it was just two 55's or two 110's on high, but when I hit the flash it lit all eight elements, 660 wats thru Carrera quartz. Daylight - absolute daylight!

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  9. are we being subjected to some kind of pennance lately?

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  10. I like the turning high beam lights connected to the steering. So cool.

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  11. Beautiful car, years ahead of its time, still futuristic today. French brilliance.

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  12. First time I've seen a picture of a Citroen that made it look good.

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    1. +1.
      ..and it's lowered, too! Nice!
      -JLM

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  13. Back in the '60's, going to school in upstate NY, I often drove through snow with just parking lights. Keep the windshield cold and the lights on low beam or off, and you can see in the snow.

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