Delete this thread please...

I hate when trucks have blacked out headlights! Like how the hell do you expect to see at night?

 

I guess you can only drive it to the mall during the daytime.

 

Guess the LEO gets to tell them how to do it, hahahaha

I think I would issue the fix it ticket just for the heck of it, absolutely stupid and unsafe in so many ways. All for trying to look "Cool."

 

Sweet headlights.... BRO!!

 

42K?!?!?!?! Damn, are people really paying that?

 

This, and for those that insist on running HID/LED's in a halogen reflector headlight...

Tyler

 

Worst. Mod. Ever.*

*considered the same as blacked out tail lights in my book.


Both are also illegal in CA, thank jeebus.

 

Same with VA. Anything on your head or tail lights is a fail on the annual safety inspection

 

^^^ people that dont realize theyre just covers and can be taken off.

 

Not sure if you're referring to me? Your response doesn't seem to make sense to anyone's post in the thread

 

they can be taken off to see at night or to pass an inspection...

 

It's not like it's an easy process. It's a tint film so it is a pain to apply properly. You can't just take them off Willy nilly like plastic light covers on off road bars.

 

they are plastic clip on covers. says avs right on them.

 

Well I'll be damned. I didn't even know these existed!! To be fair, 99% of tinted headlights you see on the road aren't these so they can't be taken off.

 

That taco made me want to jam this.
https://youtu.be/X2LTL8KgKv8

 

Most people don't do clip on. Every one I've ever stopped was either a film, or painted on (products such as VHT lens tinting spray paint). I had a buddy in college who got a few tickets and had so much trouble removing it, he had to buy whole new headlight/taillight housings to fit it.

You can take them off for inspection, but in California its a citation. Sure, its a fix it ticket, but you have to go to a court to show proof to get the ticket dismissed. That also carries a dismissal fee (usually around $25)...so you would have to waste time going to court and pay $25 every time you got a ticket for the removable cover. Furthermore, if you get the ticket repeatedly, it can be charged as "non-correctable"...meaning the fine would be much steeper.

On a final tangent to that...just because you can remove it to avoid the law (if it is law in your area), doesn't make it a good thing to do. It is a hazard to others on the road. I have dealt with several issues related to it:

-rear end collisions because drivers could not see the brake lights go on (especially in daylight)
-drivers hitting pedestrians/cars/items in the road because their tinted headlights reduced visibility drastically
-calls of possible DUI driver's at night, driving with "no lights on" when in reality the lenses were blacked out

It's just not a safe thing to do. Good thing its ugly and the fad passed eons ago, so we rarely see it now.