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Originally Posted by Freeze
HID's should be illegal as headlights. True, from a driver's perspective they are very nice, but from an oncoming perspective, they contract your irises to an extreme and leave you virtually blind after they have passed. This is not so much of a concern for lower cars like the Mini or TCH, but there seems to be a trend (at least im my red-neck-of-the-woods) to put the darn things in raised monster trucks. Often, you'll be faced with four HID's head on: fog lights about 2 feet off the ground and headlights about 4 feet. Ouch.
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I do know that there are people that convert their cars over to true HID lights but don't change the LENS housing. A HID light uses a projection lens, to focus the light in a certain pattern. A non HID LENS housing does not need to focus the light this way. When you replace your system with HID lights but don't change the housing, you get a pattern that blinds oncoming traffic. This is bad, and I agree, should not be allowed.