Baja Designs: General Discussion Thread

I did the Driving/Combo Working on downloading my GoPro videos. I should have clips from inside the tunnel I mentioned that I can share soon hopefully!

 

I think I'm getting me a set, in Amber

 

Yeah they look super cool in Amber! I almost went that route. But I decided I wanted the illumination more than the looks. Still looks pretty freaking cool in white.

 

Get the amber covers that snap over top, bam, choices!

 

I got the amber wide angle cornering because that makes sense for low vis actual fog, dust, and snow. I was not impressed with the OEM fogs at all.

I think the stock 2015 headlights, and high beams, are more than adequate for daily driving.

I'll be putting my S2 driver/combos up on my Prinsu for supplementing driving lights offroad or pitch black county road/unfamiliar areas. I almost hit some black cows standing right on the shoulder grazing in the middle of the night in Utah a couple years ago on a curvy mountain road. At first I couldn't even tell if there was something there. It just seemed like a black hole that was different. Then a bit further along my lights caught a giant eye in the middle of blackness and I freaked out. Weirdest thing ever. Some S2s pointed slightly off-axis would have helped a lot there.

 

Well folks... this is about as good a comparison as I can find. The GoPro is pretty adept at compensating for low light. So this doesn't appear as significant as it did in person.

Headlights Only:



Foglights On:

 

The poor car in front of you

 

In your defense there's VERY FEW consumer grade cameras that do low light very well ESPECIALLY with an "auto focus."

It was bound to not work.

 

LOL Yeah. I'm compiling the GOPro video right now. I think I might be able to get a clip that shows it half decent. They really were night and day difference.

 

The same reason why pictures of offroad light coverage and headlight bulb comparisons are bullshit.

Or, loosely related, exhaust recordings NEVER. FUCKING. WORK.

But I digress slightly.

 

Yeah... the video I'm compiling has a few seconds of a couple of us rev'ing engines in the tunnel. They don't sound the same on video as they did in person. lol

 

I have friends who record music professionally and I played in a band for many years, it takes some good microphones to properly get sound just like a good camera to get low-light video.

Cell phone pics and enema-up-the-pipe-style video NEVER does justice, sucks, but its the truth.

 

Thanks! I will be taking some photos and uploading them to a photobucket album along the way.

 

Yes I was, I actually live in Eville. You were right next to me for a while werent you?

 

Yes sir. Good to see a fellow tacoma enthusiasts in the area. Nice truck btw.

 

Not a bad comparison pic. So are you able to drive around town with your fog lights on or are they for odd road use only?

 

Thanks, yours looks good too! I like the TRD emblem on the tailgate, I had just thought about doing that a couple weeks ago.

 

I've had them on before. Yet to travel an odd road though. LOL Just poking fun at the typo.

Though I've had a person flash their lights at me once - and it was still daylight. Also had the 4x4 club here ask me to turn them off when they were spotting me down a decline. Said the fogs were so bright they couldn't see to spot me. It was overcast and raining that day.

They're pretty bright!

 

Odd roads are the best! They seem to be pretty bright and may piss off some people since I live in a rather hilly area. I plan on getting mine in "Amber" (light output looks more yellow in the pics I've seen) so that may tame some of the brightness.

 

Yeah it'll at a bare minimum reduce the perceived brightness. 4600 lumens of white light is probably perceived differently! LOL