headlights that bright?

Hair_MD · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:09 am

So i've had my libby for a week now, and almost every time i drive on a 2 lane highway at night, i have people flash their high beams at me thinking i've forgot to turn mine off....so i flash them back :twisted:

anyone else get this?

KJ Willy · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:19 am

Their just saying hi, awesome Jeep there. :lol:

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:53 am

Hair_MD wrote:

So i've had my libby for a week now, and almost every time i drive on a 2 lane highway at night, i have people flash their high beams at me thinking i've forgot to turn mine off....so i flash them back :twisted:

anyone else get this?

Alot of times you will get this from little cars that are low to the ground.

Cowcatcher · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:19 am

I had the exact same problem. I switched to SilverStars and now the flash a lot more. :lol:

zeero · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:53 am

Oh yeah...I get that ALL the time....a little irritating to the eyes.....especially being lifted!!! I've been tempted on occasion to flash my overheads at them! :lol:

FL RENNY · **Joined:** Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:30 pm **Posts:** 458

zeero wrote:

Oh yeah...I get that ALL the time....a little irritating to the eyes.....especially being lifted!!! I've been tempted on occasion to flash my overheads at them! :lol:

I flash my overhead lights all the time, It's better when it's a truck though b/c now that she's lifted they kinda just go right over. Last night a car was comming down the road and deffinatly had their high beams on, so I turned on the overheads, it turns out the car happened to have red & blue flashing lights and a siren too.............weird? :twisted:

Guyute1210 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:22 pm

zeero wrote:

Oh yeah...I get that ALL the time....a little irritating to the eyes.....especially being lifted!!! I've been tempted on occasion to flash my overheads at them! :lol:

That's what I usually do...stupid small cars...

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:37 pm

FL RENNY wrote:

zeero wrote:

Oh yeah...I get that ALL the time....a little irritating to the eyes.....especially being lifted!!! I've been tempted on occasion to flash my overheads at them! :lol:

I flash my overhead lights all the time, It's better when it's a truck though b/c now that she's lifted they kinda just go right over. Last night a car was comming down the road and deffinatly had their high beams on, so I turned on the overheads, it turns out the car happened to have red & blue flashing lights and a siren too.............weird? :twisted:

Did he pull you or anything? Thats a good one!

MikeD0106 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:38 pm

FL RENNY wrote:

turns out the car happened to have red & blue flashing lights and a siren too.............

Hate it when that happens. :lol:

JFortier777 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:55 pm

I was driving around town following a friend of mine who drives a little foriegn car, two weeks ago. I have 80/100 watt headlights and after about two miles he refused to drive in front of me claiming something about 'permanent retina damage" or something LOL.

MikeD0106 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:26 am

Nah... He was just afraid you would run him over. :lol:

Liberator · **Joined:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:42 am **Posts:** 397

zeero wrote:

Oh yeah...I get that ALL the time....a little irritating to the eyes.....especially being lifted!!! I've been tempted on occasion to flash my overheads at them! :lol:

Given one's profession, is that acceptable??

FL RENNY · **Joined:** Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:30 pm **Posts:** 458

LOL no I didn't get pulled over, he just turned on his lights and hit "quick siren." You know the one that goes "whoop whoop" or something like that :lol:

, to kind of say....do you know who you are messing with?

LimitedLurker · **Joined:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:18 pm **Posts:** 114

If you lift you should reset the headlight alignment. If others are flashing at you, have the headlight alignment checked.

For those who like to flash the overheads, come to WI and I'll introduce you to the WI finest. Its illegal to use off-road lights on the road and it is illegal to use your lights as weapons. Grow up guys, you share the road with a lot of people and you owe it to everyone to act in the publics interest. Its crap like this that gives 4x4s a bad name and causes the public to want to restrict us and our hobby.

SethX9 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:34 pm

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Grow up...Its crap like this...

Amen brother!!

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:06 pm

LimitedLurker wrote:

If you lift you should reset the headlight alignment. If others are flashing at you, have the headlight alignment checked.

For those who like to flash the overheads, come to WI and I'll introduce you to the WI finest. Its illegal to use off-road lights on the road and it is illegal to use your lights as weapons. Grow up guys, you share the road with a lot of people and you owe it to everyone to act in the publics interest. Its crap like this that gives 4x4s a bad name and causes the public to want to restrict us and our hobby.

I had to redo my headlights. At first my rear was higher than my front b/c I bought the front spings used and the rear new. The rear was jacked up until they settled and I could see about 5 feet infront of me. I put them back up to about the same spot as before and they are perfect. :wink:

Ive never flashed anyone, but I do blow my horn alot.

Whoop, Whoop. :lol:

kolesy · **Posted:** Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:11 pm

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For those who like to flash the overheads, come to WI and I'll introduce you to the WI finest. Its illegal to use off-road lights on the road and it is illegal to use your lights as weapons. Grow up guys, you share the road with a lot of people and you owe it to everyone to act in the publics interest. Its crap like this that gives 4x4s a bad name and causes the public to want to restrict us and our hobby.

Get bent! Its also illegal to drive towards on coming traffic with your high beams on too! Come on now, granted two wrongs don't make a right, but you give em a little flash of "real" highbeams and bet they will be double checking there brights next time they drive by someone. All it takes is one person to get bent outta shape and say this lad in a jeep put his big bright plentiful lights on me when I was driving, man dam 4x4 people. Well why did said 4x4 lad do that?????? Come on!!!! :twisted:

MikeD0106 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:07 am

Exactly... Something they made sure to drill into us at the academy was "Spirit of the Law" & "Letter of the Law".

If the guy just flashed someone to let them know their brights were on then no biggie, but if you are just trollen down the interstate with all 8 of your lights on then we will probably have a problem. Driving on-road with your off-road lights turned on (man that kinda sounds weird when you say it) is illegal in most if not all states, but I would seriously suggest fighting any citation given to you by an officer who is upset that you used them to flash someone.

WOW... did I say that?! :lol:

SethX9 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:30 am

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WOW... did I say that?!

WOW... did you say that?

Flashing your highbeams at someone is illegal even if it's because someone else flashed theirs at you. It's not as if you're defending yourself and meeting a threat with an equal amount of force. Spirit of the law and letter of the law are indeed two different things and I'm glad to know cadets are informed of the discrepency between the two but...flashing your off-road lights? That's not only dangerous to the person you are flashing but to the other drivers in your path who are going to have their friggin' retinas bleached because you couldn't muster up a shred of impulse control and just let the idiot drive past you.

The real point here is that quite often lifted vehicles have their lights up in people's faces and that adds to the hostility many have for 4x4 owners. Why add to that hostility and confirm their prejudice? Defusing the situation is the anwer not throwing more fuel on the fire.

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:31 pm

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SethX9

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WOW... did I say that?!

WOW... did you say that?

Flashing your highbeams at someone is illegal even if it's because someone else flashed theirs at you. It's not as if you're defending yourself and meeting a threat with an equal amount of force. Spirit of the law and letter of the law are indeed two different things and I'm glad to know cadets are informed of the discrepency between the two but...flashing your off-road lights? That's not only dangerous to the person you are flashing but to the other drivers in your path who are going to have their friggin' retinas bleached because you couldn't muster up a shred of impulse control and just let the idiot drive past you.

The real point here is that quite often lifted vehicles have their lights up in people's faces and that adds to the hostility many have for 4x4 owners. Why add to that hostility and confirm their prejudice? Defusing the situation is the anwer not throwing more fuel on the fire.

I agree with you to a point,when I'm driving down the highway I always turn my brights off at least 1/2 mile if not more from oncoming traffic(or when I first see them)and then oncoming traffic knows I do not have my brights on but still some idiots still flash me(my headlights are correctly aimed also)so I will flash them to only show them that I was on dim.If they don't turn there brights off then I will turn on my 600,000 candle power HID's and don't care about there eyes(I wont if alot of vehicles are right behind them).My caring only goes so far when I have demenstrated 2 times "nicely" that I was one dim then I don't hold no mercy for the third very bright flashing.I have read my state laws about lifting vehicles and headlights and I aim very much in the legal limit,so I choose to raise my vehicle and they choose to lower thiers,not my fault.I don't want to start a war but when I'm legal and still get this hassle I got rights to!

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