Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:50:09 -0800
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
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Make all them dweebs happy and paint all your lights black.
No need to get so grouchy; it was only a suggestion made strictly to help
you.
Honest.
Mike
On 11/25/02 7:57 AM, "JordanVw@AOL.COM" <JordanVw@AOL.COM> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/25/02 8:47:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, mdlind@RICA.NET
> writes:
>
>
>> . I
>> thought the inner lights were high beams.
>>
>>
>
> no - theyre driving lights. the high beams are the stock outer 7" round high
> beam. the inner lights are just driving lights. seems most listers have them
> wired so they come on w/ their high beams - , but how often do you use your
> high beams? do whats really the point of this grille then? to look cool?
> (like i've never bought anything to look cool :<) Anyway, driving lights
> should be able to be used all the time. the Jetts/golf GLX/GTI's have "under
> the bumper" driving lights that you can run all the time...and nobody has a
> problem w/ them.. its the location of the inner SA driving lights next to the
> stock headlights in the grille that makes people think theyre high beams.
> the difference between a fog" light and a "driving" light is the lens.
> foglights have a fluted lens to displace light to the sides of the road and
> directly in front of you, driving lights have a clear lens and project light
> in a beam down the road in front of you like headlights. the jettas/golfs
> have DRIVING lights. people have a problem with it because of the
> psychological aspect of it because of their location directly horizontal in
> line w/ the headlights. when i flip the high beams on with the SA driving
> lights on there is SIGNIFICANTLY more light than running the SA driving
> lights on w/ the low beams on. so its not the light output that pisses people
> off, its the location of the light source.. like i said before, if these
> SAME SA driving lights were located below the bumper, then nobody would have
> a problem at all running them with the low beams on.
> Purely psychological. people are trained that 2 light on at the same time
> horizontally inline w/ eachother are high beams...wheather the wattage of the
> inner lights is 10 or 100. they aren't getting pissed because of the wattage
> output, they are getting pissed because the location. 4 lights in a row means
> high beams to most people.
>
> chris Freud, Phd Psch. :<)
>
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