Date:         Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:12:00 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From:         David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject:      Re: E-Code Headlights
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
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I think you are mistaking Halogen meaning the same as ECE or E-code
lights, it doesn't.  Halogen is a technology of lighting.  ECE
vs DOT is a method of how said light is reflected out of the
vehicle.  ECE and DOT lights can both be halogen.  Same thing as
HID / Xenon can be both ECE and DOT compliant.

David
Marshall
VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider
 
http://www.hasenwerk.ca

On Thu, December 11, 2008 10:57,
Andrew Grebneff wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:45
AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> wrote:
>> At 01:22 AM 12/11/2008, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>>>
>>> Odd... all of the American cars I've
looked closely at here (including
>>> 80s Chryslers) had
halogens...
>>
>> Halogens will give just as crappy
light as anything else if you put them
>> in
>> a
DOT-spec headlamp...the DOT lights are the way they are because the
>> DOT
>> wants them that way, not because they
couldn't do any better
>> technically.
>>  Aside
from that, US RHD cars would have had their headlights replaced
>> for
>> LHD New Zealand use, no?
> 
>
Sorry; I'm in Calgary right now, so I'm talking Canadian cars.
>

> Halogen hi/lo headlight refelectors have small holes below the
main
> bulb hole. None of my cars have has parking lights in the
headlights,
> and I just seal the holes.
> 
>
--
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin, New Zealand
>
Fossil preparator
> Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
>
Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
>
<goose1047@gmail.com>
> 
>
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