Just bought a new Acura 2005 TSX 5AT yesterday and using the headlights on for the first time this evening I noticed that several drivers flashed their headlights back to me...(just like when your brights are on)...but that was not the case as they were off as I checked several times turning them on/off....

unless they are misalligned...not sure why they are doing this..but maybe its because xenon is brighter....? thanks,Marc.

 

This is life with HID's....enjoy.

your lights are fine you will just get flashed alot.

 

Projector based HIDs have sharp cutoffs. When driving behind a car with projector HIDs, it does appear that the high beams have been flashed when the car goes over a bump.

It will take time for people to get used to HID headlights. There is no point in flashing them back with your lights, it will only aggravate them more.

 

i have yet to get highbeamed from oncoming cars...i guess cuz there are so many cars with HIDs in my area that everyone around here gets used to them.

 

get used to it, our HID is just like BMW and AUDI, very bright and changess color from different angle..you wont ever get anyone flash headlight at you if you were in LA, every other car has HID, im sure your neighborhood will get used to it soon!

 

depends where you are is a key. around here people are so dumb that you could be driving with the same person and soon as u get to a rurual area theyll think you have the brights on. but thats life here. ive gotten people on the other side of the median on a two lane each direction road flash the brights repeatedly at me, and soon as u flash em back they feel stupid.

 

i actually think our lights are aimed a bit high...i havent gotten flashed since i lowered my car...

 

I dont believe i've gotten flashed yet and i've owned the car for 4 months.

 

I've been flashed by cars about once every few months. Couple of nights ago an SUV flashed me. I just laugh it off.

 

same here

 

I get flashed all the time.

 

speaking of which, do they make HID fog light?

 

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we got flashed last time we were on our police chopper near hollywood hills :p we did a low fly by checknig out an area got flashed with high beam by these fine ladies at their backyard pool

 

so where are the pics? lol.

 

those high beam caught me off guard.......

 

Was watching a show about LA news crews in helicopters getting a BUNCH of "flashes" all the time. That's hilarious.

 

there is nowhere like LA~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

^^ note to self: buy helicopter.

The HIDs are brighter than some people are used to so they may think you have your high beams on. Or, as was mentioned, if you go over a bump the cutoff may make it look like you are flashing them and they just retrun the favor. Better get used to it. It happens to me once in a great while, less so lately. People will get accustomed to it as more and more new cars get HIDs.

 

I've been flashed a few times........no big deal.

 

I never get flash on. Maybe hid are so common in Toronto Actually regaular halogen are become rare to see

 

HID fogs are existant but they aren't standard Acura equipment. You would have to go aftermarket and would have to swap out the bulbs and isntall ballasts. Not too bad of a job since the kits make it really easy. All you have to know how to do is match up colors.

 

Probably a good thing.

 

I get flashed at least once a night it seems, usually by cars without xenon, but last night even by a benz with xenon. I flashed back a few times and he/she kept on flashing. It drives me nuts sometimes!

 

Put your high beams away...

 

Loving your sense of understatement.

 

It might have been on another board where I was reading about Hoen bulbs that have a similar color to HID but are a conventional bulb. Seems like less trouble than trying to retrofit an HID fog. :-)

I haven't been flashed yet.

 

I read an article in the paper where a lady wrote in to complain about lights like ours. She went on to say that she flashes everyone that has them. Even though she knows their brights are not on, she does it just to show them she dosen't like them.

 

What a bitch. She's probably the same type of person who complains that TV and Internet have made people leave her weekly book club and thus she has no friends left.

 

Turn your brights on and leave them on.

 

Exactly. She's looking for it.

 

I've had folks complain to me about the color...not the brightness the color, WTF.

Go buy your own, then we will all be the same color. G** I hate when folks are luminescently discriminatory, it's a shame our culture tolerates it....