Has anyone heard of "smartlites" cornering lites? I am having them installed on my car in the near future but waswondering if they will look okay. They seem great, though. I e-mailed the owner to tell him that I wanted a pair and the e-mail he sent me back got lost somewhere. Because of that, he gave me a major discount. They look pretty cool on the site. Check 'em out at www.smartlites.com.

 

For some reason the link sends you to a different website that if you type the same address in manully. I'll try and figure it out, but for now we have to do it the old fashioned way. :o

 

Look pretty cool...where would you install on your car?

 

The guy I talked to said that they can go anywhere. Even better, they are remote, so every time you turn the steerigng wheel they turn on so you can see where youre going, al this w/o wires! Pretty nifty.

 

What kinda $$$

 

"...well under $200."

 

Here www.smartlites.com
your link sends you to other place cuz you had a dot after ".com"

 

Whops, duh silly me. Thanks. :o :o :o :o

 

whoa that seems like it could be really helpful! get em and tell us how it is!

 

Cadilacs have had those for years. They have clear corner lights that come on with the turn signals.

 

i bet a practical place would be the little window in our backseats pointing outward

 

Yeah, alot of GM cars have had them. My friend, for example, has an Olds 88 with them. The only difference is that these turn on when you steer and go in reverse too. Although, the Saab's factory models also go on in reverse.

 

C'mon, Lincolns, Caddys & Chryslers have had cornering lights since the 60's. It's funny how everything old becomes new again.

 

Yeah, look at this 4-wheel (quadrasteer) steering system on the GMCs. That was popular like a trilion years ago.

 

I don't get where u mean?

 

that looks cool...although the site is a bit shady. why don't they have any pics of any REAL installs?

 

Has anyone on this board installed these on their cars before? If so, I'd like to see some pics of the finished product.

 

Why don't they show the actual product...and any REAL install pis? I would want to see one of the actual lights...not installed, and installed.

 

They are not yet avalible to the public, they are still being developed. I am the test mule for the lights and will post pics as soon as they are installed.

 

oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

 

Excellent. How did you become a test mule for them?? Maybe HKS needs another test mule ... I would like that!

 

I was the first person w/ our car to e-mail the guy. Here is part of his response. It sounds like they will look just fine:

"'Smartlites" is actually a sensor which will activate cornering lights when you turn your steering wheel. It is possible to use any type of light according to the type of vehicle and type of driving you do.


For sleek cars like you are driving, I suggest a type of new "boutique" type of light that many light manufacturers now build. As soon as Smartlites is available to the public, we will be packaging the system with appropriate cornering lights which can be mounted either on the lower part of the front bumper or even a more discreet but very effective position behind and under the driver's door and before the rear wheel. This last position will illuminate the entire area directly to the side of the vehicle; it seems to have a more user friendly reflective quality as well when located there.


For a more extreme example of this, please go to http://www.smartlites.com/images/mitsubishi2.jpg


where my Mitsubishi is shown with "show " lights to get the point of the concept across.


In practical terms, there are smaller lights available which can be mounted that will be hardly noticable on the vehicle except when they are in use."

 

... in that Mercedes SLR... the headlights automatically rotate & point in the direction your turning.

now thats tits.

 

Yeah, they were thinking about that in the next BMW 5/6 series too. Those are so sweet.