lvcurvs

I've got mine on Tokico's and Tein's so nothing super low or bouncy or anything.

Last night I was going home and this civic came flying past me, got in front of me for about a mile then slammed on the brakes, got behind me again and started flashing thier high beams at me. First I thought it was somebody I may know but then they pulled up next to me and kindof yelled at me as to why I was flashing my headlights at them. I said i wasn't and the light turned green. I let him get in front of me and turned my highs on. Ha! you could see him scrambling to flip the mirror and cover his eyes. Next light we hit, I looked over at him and basically said I told you so. He said sorry and it looked like I was flashing my lights at him because they are super bright.
Anybody else have this happen to them? Maybe it's just me but even when a lowered car is bouncing all over behind me, I can tell the diff. between high beams or lows. Ha, I love our headlights. These and my S2k headlights are the best ones I've ever had!

Sorry if in wrong place. It's not a problem or anything like that.

CGTSX07

lol, this has happened to me a couple times. Oncoming traffic will think my high-beams are on so they will flash me and think i'm an asshole, that is until I flash them right back .

Type_S

iTrader: (1)

It's because of the projector twinkle. Since the civic was lowered and bouncing he saw more of it.

IIIII

this happens alot in my TL, havent experienced it yet with the TSX(only had it since sat 9/08)......but with the TL once the flash me and i flash them back, they damn well know my highbeams were not on. TL has the bi-xenon's and those suckers will blind the crap out of you.

ttefabian

get it all the time and they flash me but i flash back and there like ooohh shit....

CGTSX07

what's the difference between bi-xenons and xenons?

theanomaly

ditto

jlukja

It happens because the cutoff is so pronounced. If you hit a bump the headlights will momentarily point down enough to where the cutoff is below the other drivers line of sight. To them it will look like your headlights got much dimmer. As you rebound on the bump the cutoff will go above their line-of-sight and it will look to them as if the headlights just got brighter. So, they may think you are flashing your long beams at them.

SeanS627

from my understanding it uses a 2 stage xenon bulb one setting for low beam and one for low/high beam instead of the standard xenon that has just the low beam and a halogen bulb that is your high beam

but i might be wrong

xenonhid

Yeah, I'm get more headlight flashes when I'm passing through smaller towns, but when I'm in Seattle, almost everyone has HID's.

clee109

had my headlights adjusted to high not to long ago and was NEVER flashed, then I adjusted them properly by the service manual (there is a thread on here with it for those who want to know) and I get flashed now? LOL To high and blinding people = no flash Adjusted correctly = flashing! Maybe I am just driving by more idiots than usual these days

studville

I don't know if it necessarily has to do with a lowered car. I've noticed that when I'm driving on a semi bumpy road, cars w/ HID lights or whatever the heck their called, appear to look like their quickly flashing their highs. People have flashed their highs at me as well.

HONgDA

iTrader: (1)

you are correct about that. the bi-xenon has a motor which moves the shield for the high beam. yeah the tsx and s2k projectors are the best.

Reach

Hongda has a more correct explanation. Its the same bulb and projector, but a switch allows the sheild to move which pushes the light further up and outward, vs. standard low beam pattern.

SeanS627

so i forgot the shield.........my bad

stogie1020

Bi-xenons do it with other xenons.....

04acptizzy

Clever.

Zyuan10

I hate driving in front of TSX/TL at night after work... this main road I take has all sorts of twist and up/downs so any car with HID will be like a raving in my rearview/sideview mirrors and it's just so awfully blinding.

I now know how others feel when they drive in front of me >_>

acura_ak

i get quite a few oncoming traffic flashing their high beams at me thinking that I have my high beams on also.........they see my lights "flicker" and think i'm flashing them.