Yeah, I agree with you guys. I DO enjoy the "bling factor" of the driving lights. But at $230, I think I'll skip out on having them and use the money to take the wife to San Diego for the weekend instead.
If they were only $130, I'd get them!
Also, with the additional juice that the driving lights would pull (see thread about the FEH product demonstration in Dearborn MI where the engineers said running the headlights in the FEH would contribute to a 0.9% loss of FE) how much of a loss in FE could that conceivably be?
So, so far, I'm leaning to NO on the driving lights. Merely based on cost. But! I'm going to still get the trunk tray, wheel locks, 15 oil filters, maybe some air and CAF filters...
Hmm, it's like I'm buying Christmas presents all for myself! Nah, those presents are for the HAH! I wonder if my wife will think it's funny or stupid if I have a bunch of wrapped boxes under the tree that say, "To: Accord Hybrid?"
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if she has boxes marked, "To: the cats!" Furry little bastids! It never fails that on the days I have to go to work in my dress blues, the white one will come up and brush up against my leg as I'm about to walk out the door! I've already threatened my wife that I was going to dye our white cat Air Force blue!