[marcm]

You need to get your Xenons fixed mate as they are feckin blindin.

I expect you are on the forum as you had black grills so must be into some form of modding.

[JonD]

Annoying as it is I think you shouldn’t put the full registration number, next thing you know they'll be two YF** ZST's on the road. Only list part of it and the location so the if the owner does use this forum they’ll realise you’re referring to them.

[toxicnerve]

Originally Posted by marcm

You need to get your Xenons fixed mate as they are feckin blindin.

I expect you are on the forum as you had black grills so must be into some form of modding.

As I said in another thread, dickheads who drive around with ultra-bright bulbs need a good kicking.

Making your car look cool at the expense of blinding/dazzling oncoming drivers or drivers looking at you in their rearview mirrors is unacceptable, bordering on dangerous.

As petty as it sounds I wish the fuzz would do something about this sort of thing and while we're on the topic of mods, numberplates which use non-standard font/size too.

I'd nick and fine the lot of ya, maybe add some community service picking litter into the mix too...while wearing a bright orange jumpsuit with "Douche" written across the back.

[KadeSdad]

Originally Posted by toxicnerve

As I said in another thread, dickheads who drive around with ultra-bright bulbs need a good kicking.

Making your car look cool at the expense of blinding/dazzling oncoming drivers or drivers looking at you in their rearview mirrors is unacceptable, bordering on dangerous.

As petty as it sounds I wish the fuzz would do something about this sort of thing and while we're on the topic of mods, numberplates which use non-standard font/size too.

I'd nick and fine the lot of ya, maybe add some community service picking litter into the mix too...while wearing a bright orange jumpsuit with "Douche" written across the back.

Good Rant!

[marcm]

Originally Posted by JonD

Annoying as it is I think you shouldn’t put the full registration number, next thing you know they'll be two YF** ZST's on the road. Only list part of it and the location so the if the owner does use this forum they’ll realise you’re referring to them.

ok fair enough I agree I should have blitzed part of it.

I just thought I'd let him know his lights are past the headache stage.

[SiKkBaSs]

Originally Posted by toxicnerve

As I said in another thread, dickheads who drive around with ultra-bright bulbs need a good kicking.

Making your car look cool at the expense of blinding/dazzling oncoming drivers or drivers looking at you in their rearview mirrors is unacceptable, bordering on dangerous.

As petty as it sounds I wish the fuzz would do something about this sort of thing and while we're on the topic of mods, numberplates which use non-standard font/size too.

I'd nick and fine the lot of ya, maybe add some community service picking litter into the mix too...while wearing a bright orange jumpsuit with "Douche" written across the back.

All of the bulbs I personally use are fully e-marked and tested by independent bodies in accordance to ECE Regulation 48. So yeh...

To OP, I think what you may have seen is someone who has installed a HID Kit in regular headlight housing...to be glaring to that degree you have felt the need to expose the person who did this.

EDIT:OP, the guy you saw can't have had Xenons? I'm confused...

[toxicnerve]

Originally Posted by KadeSdad

Good Rant!

I couldnt help myself

I'm all for people modding their cars and have nothing against it in principle, but I can't stand the "blue LED windscreen washers and 100000000000000000000000000W headlight" crowd.

Really does my head in.

EDIT:

I must be getting old?!

[SiKkBaSs]

Originally Posted by toxicnerve

I couldnt help myself

I'm all for people modding their cars and have nothing against it in principle, but I can't stand the "blue LED windscreen washers and 100000000000000000000000000W headlight" crowd.

Really does my head in.

EDIT:

I must be getting old?!

5000K here, who the fack would put blue LED windscreen washers on a BMW, rant seems a bit inappropriate in a forum full of E90'ers. Take it to the nearest Corsa forum or Clio forum...

[toxicnerve]

Originally Posted by SiKkBaSs

5000K here, who the fack would put blue LED windscreen washers on a BMW, rant seems a bit inappropriate in a forum full of E90'ers. Take it to the nearest Corsa forum or Clio forum...

The blue LED comment wasnt aimed at anyone in particular, just part of my rant

Also the 5000k to which you refer indicates the colour temp of the light given off by your lights, not their wattage. While colour temp can be an issue with regards to causing glare, the major factor that causes the "blinding" effect is down to pure wattage. A 5000k bulb of appropriate wattage need not be blinding but it should be noted that the higher the colour temp the closer to white/blue (rather than red/orange) the light given off will be.

I've seen conventional temp lights that are massively powerful (think highbeam bright). Surely no one thinks that is appropriate? Part of me thinks that people do it knowing full well that they are dazzling and indeed with the intention of causing other drivers discomfort. There's no other explanation for having stupidly high wattage bulbs...

[alecs1105]

Originally Posted by marcm

You need to get your Xenons fixed mate as they are feckin blindin.

I expect you are on the forum as you had black grills so must be into some form of modding.

Slighlty off-topic. If you think this is bad, imagine you have this f__er up your trumpet...
he gives the m5 and a bad name. he should be banned for ever


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLwBb4FyWgw

[marcm]

The guy deffo had xenons because he had angels and it was a pre LCI.
I reckon the full beam assist flaps were stuck open or broken. That would explain the f"kin bright lights.

[marcm]

Originally Posted by alecs1105

Slighlty off-topic. If you think this is bad, imagine you have this f__er up your trumpet...
he gives the m5 and a bad name. he should be banned for ever


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLwBb4FyWgw

aww he only got to 270kph. What a pussy

[ed335d]

While we're on a rant, is it me, or are there far more cars around with their front fog lights on? Coming home tonight, I reckon that 1 in 30 cars must have had them on...

[toxicnerve]

Originally Posted by ed335d

While we're on a rant, is it me, or are there far more cars around with their front fog lights on? Coming home tonight, I reckon that 1 in 30 cars must have had them on...

Don't get my started. Worse still is when REAR fogs are on...

Your brain sits there interpreting that as "They're braking" constantly!!!

[rabble]

when fitting hid kits, the bulbs can be 'moved up' making the glare annoying as hell. Dont me ask why people do it, but ive seen plenty who do it.

factory xenons ftw!

[KadeSdad]

Originally Posted by ed335d

While we're on a rant, is it me, or are there far more cars around with their front fog lights on? Coming home tonight, I reckon that 1 in 30 cars must have had them on...

Yes, now that warrants the question WHY (unless it's foggy of course) and rears are even worse as someone else commented

Probably a bit off topic with this one, but as we are on the subject of lights I have just ordered a set of blue / white led angel eye markers from Teddy, can't stand the custard yellow stock ones

Marc

[xenon]

It should be perfectly permissable to drag people out of their cars and beat them with a pick-axe handle if they drive around with front fogs on when it isn't foggy just because they somehow think that it makes their shitbox look like a Lamborghini Gallardo.

[dxb335d]

So who was it

[toxicnerve]

Originally Posted by KadeSdad

Yes, now that warrants the question WHY (unless it's foggy of course) and rears are even worse as someone else commented

Probably a bit off topic with this one, but as we are on the subject of lights I have just ordered a set of blue / white led angel eye markers from Teddy, can't stand the custard yellow stock ones

Marc

"Foggy" needs to be quantified though, you get some mugs turning on their fog-lamps at the first sign of a light mist/drizzling rain!!

[marcm]

Originally Posted by rabble

when fitting hid kits, the bulbs can be 'moved up' making the glare annoying as hell. Dont me ask why people do it, but ive seen plenty who do it.

factory xenons ftw!

I dont get you how do you move the bulb up in a housing that fits the bulb perfectly ?

[xenon]

because some after-market HID kits are essentially a re-based D2S bulb in an H7 halogen base. Some adjustment is possible to try and get the centre of the arc in the correct place for the lamp assembly.

[toxicnerve]

Originally Posted by xenon

It should be perfectly permissable to drag people out of their cars and beat them with a pick-axe handle if they drive around with front fogs on when it isn't foggy just because they somehow think that it makes their shitbox look like a Lamborghini Gallardo.

This