monacm2

Does anyone else have people complaining to them that their lights are to bright?

Last night I had a guy high beamed me after a passed him. I wasn't speeding or tail gating him.

I personal think Acura stock head light bulbs are one of the best ones out there!

06 Acura TL

yup got that a lot..haha they arent used to xenons

blkaspec

haha, yeah, me too, and i love it. its great to shock them with the actual brights. shuts them up every time.

juruki

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My girl hates it when i drive behind her with my TL. She is always asking if im using my highbeams.

S PAW 1

Be prepared to be "flashed" many times
Due to the blue hue of the xenon high intensity gas, it "dazzles" drivers who are used to a white hue. It appears more intense to the human eye naturally, and therefore brighter.
I personally think the Acura lights add a level of safety, and other "high end" cars such as Audi and BMW are adding the xenons either as standard equipment or options.
The '07 Acura TL-S attempts to weaken the blinding effect to other drivers by lowering the level of the left light just slightly.
Enjoy just another great feature

KJSmitty

All 3G TL's are adjusted this way.
Most of the 04 TL owners including me questioned each other early on thinking the left was mis-aligned etc..

onsknth

Depends on where I'm at... Around Chicago here, no problem because people are used to seeing cars with HIDs... However, up in N. Wisconsin, almost everyone flashes thinking I have the brights on, as someone said before, until I hit them with the high beams... Then they're prolly like WTF?

TLin401

The stock lights are so nice. I've been contemplating for a long time whether or not to get some HIDs but I've been to cheap about it.

jimmyl729

eh...this is only a problem when u live in places like montana.

majority of the vehicles is equipped with xenon headlights here. please gimme a break....our lights and tls are nothing spectacular, or of rarity.

KJSmitty

WHAT!!!

Party-pooper....

Just kidding - you are correct, even the unabomber had xenon's...

(that was Montana humor...)
:-) :-)

01tl4tl

All cars in America have the left headlight down and in a bit for oncoming traffic,
the right side is out a little and up to see farther up the road for lane edge lines or pedestrians, bicylcles or other dangers lurking in the shadows

Check your tire pressure

Some cars may have misaligned lights or coilover shocks- all that affects the lights
Try loading the trunk and see how many times you get beamed!

Expymom

Yep, people high beam me all the time. The ones I really love are the ones that flash you right as they get close to your car so you don't even have a chance to give em a quick dose of the high beams to show them they're not on, not to mention the fact that you're blind at the point. My tires are correctly inflated (accoring to the TPMS) and nothing heavy in the car to drop the back end lower, so I guess in my little part of the world they just aren't used to the HIDs.

erick3

yeah man, i get that A LOT here in seattle...

bforbrian

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Yep, townies here at Cornell are adjusted to halogens lol. Esp with my Hoen Xenonmatch foglights (which is slightly bluer than stock HIDs), they high beam me like twice and I actually get pretty pissed at them so I high beam them back and then they go into a state of shock hahahaha.

tsunamiginger

I love mine! I have a 2005 TL. I've noticed that the newer ones don't have these lights (here in WA state) even though they are advertised as HID xenon. They look like standard headlights. What's up with that? My husband is upset because his 2007 Infiniti FX doesn't have these lights in them although they are supposed to be xenon. Is there a difference between xenons and can his be changed? Supposedly his were "upgraded" when they came through customs. (Not sure exactly what was done to them though.)

bforbrian

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and you are right about acura stock headlights.. ppl choose the acura headlights over beamer headlights; they actually are the best out there and ppl go crazy out there in the market for them.

Adobeman

I never get flashed so I'm guessing the stock lights aren't too bad for oncoming drivers.

I did see an article a year back in a AAA mag that said, in a nutshell, old folks hate them and the Acura's seem to be the best aimed and least troublesome for other drivers.

My opinion is that most people that dislike them never sat on the "right" side of them at night.

lusid

I need brighter, not enough flashing..

donc

I for one, do not enjoy driving in front of our 07 TL-S in my S2000 - way to distracting even with the mirror flipped up. On the other hand, I really like driving the TL-S at night because I can see just about everything.

KN_TL

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I think it's more a factor of not having auto-leveling headlights.

I used to get flashed a lot when I first got the car and it seems a little less now.

When you return the favor, you can almost see them squinting!

xenonhid

The HID"s on the TSX are bright too, I think they are perfect.

subbuzz

love the vision/headlights, i do at time's get flashed.........(rarely)

groovyone789

i get flashed a ton. i almost think they are tilted too high up. i do keep my headlight area pretty clean. anybody get almost excessive flashing? any1 wanna post how high their headlights aim from say 10ft away from a wall????

csmeance

I got flashed by a cop...I almost got a ticket, then I showed him my highbeams and was let off. the 04-05 TL's have the brightest headlights of all the TL's as they use EEE lenses instead of the 06+ lenses which are ECE or some combination of the sort of letters. But in 2004-2005, people complained of the light being blinding so a hazier lense was put in, I got that off of HID planet.

ballinfizzle89

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I agree with CSmeance

One of the best combo for headlights/HID's are the TL headlights with BMW ZKW lenses.
(Got that from Kennedy)