> >3.Are they street-legal in California or anywhere? > > AFAIK no light using the H4 bulb is street-legal anywhere in USA. However, > there is another bulb that looks exactly like an H4 (but costs more, of > course) that could *potentially* be used in a DOT-legal headlamp. I think > it might be numbered 9005 or 9006 -- something like that; it's an H4 > supposedly built to tighter specs. But it would have to be used in a DOT > approved headlamp. the Hella Vision Plus uses the H4 bulb and is DOT certified street legal for all states. says so on the box. and i like 'em a lot. gotten to where i think they might be better than the old Cibie Z-Beams (which were NOT street legal... but nobody ever noticed). :) |
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