by Barang_doa_slae » Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:09 pm
OrangeDragon wrote:Barang_doa_slae wrote:My car is fitted with factory HID head lights.
The American setting for high beam height was too low for Cambodian roads and their "no rear lights traffic".
After I adjusted them it was still too weak to drive any faster than 80kph so I had the car fitted with HID high beam. Bought and installed in Thailand 5 years ago. 1 dead ballast 2 years ago, had it replaced at VKS garage that sells sport exhaust etc... No problem since.
Bear in mind that local blue boys call them "laser" and say they are illegal. They sometimes target them when checking cars at PP road blocks.
road blocks are generally in town... you really shouldn't need high beams in town anywhere, and can blind the oncoming with them (thus why they'd be illegal).
Thanks OD, I must be one of those dumb asses drivers with high beams on in town...
In any case they don't need to see your high beams on when pulling you for lasers at towns road blocks... They just need to look at your bulbs and they know if they are or not.
Now if I agree they should be illegal for blinding people on the road, I do think that a truck, tuktuk or a remorque with no rear lights at night on a high way is criminal/suicidal...
Anyway not to brag but in SHV the cops are more likely to ask me to give them a high beam lighting at an accident scene in the middle of the night than pull me over...
[quote="OrangeDragon"][quote="Barang_doa_slae"]My car is fitted with factory HID head lights.
The American setting for high beam height was too low for Cambodian roads and their "no rear lights traffic".
After I adjusted them it was still too weak to drive any faster than 80kph so I had the car fitted with HID high beam. Bought and installed in Thailand 5 years ago. 1 dead ballast 2 years ago, had it replaced at VKS garage that sells sport exhaust etc... No problem since.
Bear in mind that local blue boys call them "laser" and say they are illegal. They sometimes target them when checking cars at PP road blocks.[/quote]
road blocks are generally in town... you really shouldn't need high beams in town anywhere, and can blind the oncoming with them (thus why they'd be illegal).[/quote]
Thanks OD, I must be one of those dumb asses drivers with high beams on in town... :banghead:
In any case they don't need to see your high beams on when pulling you for lasers at towns road blocks... They just need to look at your bulbs and they know if they are or not.
Now if I agree they should be illegal for blinding people on the road, I do think that a truck, tuktuk or a remorque with no rear lights at night on a high way is criminal/suicidal...
Anyway not to brag but in SHV the cops are more likely to ask me to give them a high beam lighting at an accident scene in the middle of the night than pull me over...