rhd vs lhd headlights Options

[CrossCudi]

so im thinking of getting these projectors and read that everyone converts them to rhd. i dont know the reason behind this..and if it is manditory or jus for preference. ? a little help here thanks.



Edit: sorry the conversion is from RHD to LHD.

This post has been edited by CrossCudi: Jun 28, 2013 - 9:53 AM

[Nihil]

If you park a car in front of a wall, you'll see that one side of your headlights is lower than the other, so you don't blind incoming traffic on the other lane. So i believe that conversion is necessary to ensure safety of everyone on the road. Some countries (or states in your case) even check this on the annual car inspection.

Here is a dutch tutorial on how to do the conversion:
http://celicagt.nl/v1/Tuning/Exterieur/projectors.html

Should't be a problem to understand it using google trahslator. Hope it helps

[Galcobar]

If you park a car in front of a wall, you'll see that one side of your headlights is lower than the other, so you don't blind incoming traffic on the other lane. So i believe that conversion is necessary to ensure safety of everyone on the road. Some countries (or states in your case) even check this on the annual car inspection.

Here is a dutch tutorial on how to do the conversion:
http://celicagt.nl/v1/Tuning/Exterieur/projectors.html

Should't be a problem to understand it using google trahslator. Hope it helps

The problem is that shaped beam patterns were not legal in the U.S. until a few years ago. The U.S. preferred to keep headlights acting as if it were still the 1950s, with two hotspots on the road and half the light scattered upwards to illuminate overhead signs.

Europe and the rest of the developed world used the sharp horizontal cutoff to produce an even spread of light on the road -- overhead signs less than 40 years old are almost all self-lit -- with the beam spreading upward towards one end to illuminate roadside signs. Japan and the UK, as well as a few smaller Commonwealth countries, have that kink on the opposite side to pretty much the rest of the world. Canada compromised -- we'd accept both ECE beam patterns and the ancient US DOT (Department of Transportation) beam patterns.

[ILoveMySilly97]

If you park a car in front of a wall, you'll see that one side of your headlights is lower than the other, so you don't blind incoming traffic on the other lane. So i believe that conversion is necessary to ensure safety of everyone on the road. Some countries (or states in your case) even check this on the annual car inspection.

Here is a dutch tutorial on how to do the conversion:
http://celicagt.nl/v1/Tuning/Exterieur/projectors.html

Should't be a problem to understand it using google trahslator. Hope it helps

The problem is that shaped beam patterns were not legal in the U.S. until a few years ago. The U.S. preferred to keep headlights acting as if it were still the 1950s, with two hotspots on the road and half the light scattered upwards to illuminate overhead signs.

Europe and the rest of the developed world used the sharp horizontal cutoff to produce an even spread of light on the road -- overhead signs less than 40 years old are almost all self-lit -- with the beam spreading upward towards one end to illuminate roadside signs. Japan and the UK, as well as a few smaller Commonwealth countries, have that kink on the opposite side to pretty much the rest of the world. Canada compromised -- we'd accept both ECE beam patterns and the ancient US DOT (Department of Transportation) beam patterns.

THUS, I'd HIGHLY recommend having fog lights installed to illuminate over head reflective signs on freeways and highways.