poppintec

Jersey just straight crazy with the bullshit laws to raise money for their struggling budgets, I mean improper headlight color every car on the road has hids guess i'm 54 dollars poorer cause the state troopers have nothing better to do than harass people...

justnspace

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Do you have upgraded HID bulbs? meaning a diff. color?

poppintec

6k but i drive an RL they come stock with Hids its not like they were pink or yellow or some crazy color, 80% of the cars on the road have hids now I just think that was a crazy reason to get pulled over for on the highway like state troopers have nothing better to do but give headlight tickets

justnspace

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you just admitted that you're in the wrong.
Go back to STOCK 4300k and then your reasoning will be justified.

renedcruz

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Wait, how is having 6000k bulbs illegal? 6000k produces a pure white light. Now driving around in 10000k or 12000k should be illegal because the driver can't see the road that good and he blinds all the oncoming drivers. But 6000k?

ParaSurfer1979

Stock cars us 4300k for a reason. That's one smart ass cop to notice the difference. Good job. If 6000k color we're legal. Name a car company that used 5000-6000k stock? I've used 6000k b4 and felt were too blue and did 5000k. The later color is easier to get away with as 5000k is more pure white than 6000k. But the law is the law. Now blue light allowed on anything but emergency vehicles.

justnspace

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Just like Desmond said....the law is the law.
if the OP said that he had the STOCK 4300k in, then we would have sympathized with him. Since he changed them out, he disobeyed the law.

poppintec

I obviously knew that it is considered illegal it's just a pointless ticket to give out and should not be considered a primary offense to pull someone over based on their headlights.......

justnspace

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meh. this is the price you pay to to be different.
Just like I know that running without a front plate in Texas is illegal, I still do it.
If a cop were to be picky and singled me out for it, I would man up and pay the ticket. it would also probably persuade me to put the front plate on.

Blazing GT

It could mean the cars cannot have an obnoxious color change.

like
Pink.purple. etc

aznboi2424

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while I do think a ticket for 6k bulbs is a bit overboard, it is true that its illegal. Just swap the bulbs, get the fix it ticket paid off and pay the processing fee (30 dollars in cali) and swap the bulbs back if you really like the bulbs.

KillerG

i guess you take the risk with 6k but i WILL 100% agree with the poster that its bullshit because just about HALF the people i see in a daily basis in jersey city are running either 6k or above or running HIDs in projector housing, and it always fucking annoys me to no end when i see SUVs running 12,000k pure blue lights in projectors and nothing happens to them.

fucking being a cop but those people seriously need to cut that shit out. I get it, HIDs R cool, i know, i love them too, but buy some fucking silverstars if your corolla doesnt have HID stock housings...

ParaSurfer1979

When you're living in a state that's running in the red, I'm sure the State of California has decided to start writing tickets for anything illegal to gain revenue. State like mine NC is running only slightly in the red can find the revenue from cutting costs but you can be sure if our state was on the verge of Bankruptcy they'd be doing the same thing.

poppintec

Yea it was just a wrong place wrong time type of a deal, they should think of other ways to raise money.... and it wasn't like I was driving around town and a municipal cop ticketed me but a state trooper it's kinda funny that is what they get payed 80$ an hour to do........court appearance isn't required I am just going to pay the ticket and be pissed off what else can I do....there is more important shit cops need to worry about

Aman

Being pulled over for 6000K bulbs is pretty damn petty, but they're right it is illegal. Some cops are dicks, some are more flexible/realistic. You'll get a bit of both, that time you got the former. Sucks, but technically he's right.

BTW: Don't tell the officer he should be out fighting crime or doing important stuff or whatever when you get pulled over. That's a surefire way to get a ticket for whatever you were pulled over, and then some.

nj2pa2nc

NC has there share of wierd laws-The license plate frame can not cover North carolina or the registration stickers. (face a $100.00 fine).The state could makes lots of money if you notice the dealer frames on the cars. Have extra tint on the windows-pay a extra $10.00 when car is inspected. There are numerous red-light cameras in the Wilmington area. I have a personalized digital license plate on my car-The state decided the digital plates were not good so they went back to the normal plates. I am now waiting for my replacement plate.

justnspace

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Texas echos some of the same laws. ie: red light cameras, tint laws, license plate frame, required front license plate and so on.
they are still the law, and if caught breaking any of them. Pay the price.

Rejckt

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jay walking is illegal. Who hasn't done it? Ticketing for 6k is some dumb shit. 6k is pure white, I can't even tell the difference.

KillerG

maybe theyll ticket 4500k too for being 200 kelvin off stock lol

poppintec

anyone from nj/nyc understands my anger because everyone has hids in nj lol

Maxi3.2

They got me in upstate ny last month for the same thing, I was visiting so he went easy on me, gave me a warning and told me to change them,,, i got lucky I guess

renedcruz

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Don't worry about it man, I understand where you're coming from. If I got a ticket for having 6000k bulbs, I would be pissed. Almost every car I see that has HID lights, has 6000k or above. Just take the hit now and move on. I'm sure you won't be getting a ticket for it again.

ParaSurfer1979

Yea... He does it so why can't I right? In duh time, they will get tickets. There's only so many cops for the amount of cars. If you've got the money, keep getting tickets.. ha ha. Sooner or later you'll get tired of digging in your pockets for something that's so easily fixable.

AckTL05

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Just the other day I saw some dude with 3k in his headlights and fog lights, BLINDING everyone on the road. Mind you he was driving 50 in a 65 so everyone had to pass him. Those people should get every ticket known to man for being such a dickhead. Fogs is fine but not for headlights, damn it was horrible.

ParaSurfer1979

I agree and ill also even go as to saying 55watt HIDs aren't good. I'd love these but after thinking about how it would affect other drivers whether oncoming or me gaining up behind someone and how it blinds them in their mirrors. I think about those things because me driving a sedan, i hate SUV's having HID's because when they are behind me, It blinds me to all hell. Yes its a legal application so i understand and just move when possible.

nj2pa2nc

I do not have them. My mom's next door neighbor is a sgt. for the NJ state police. Excellent neighbor-when it snows he plows my mom's driveway and sidewalk. refuses payment. Lots of times he has done it after working.

Aman

Not a fan of 3000K in the headlights, but that sounds more like a problem with unfocused beam rather than color temp. Was it a car that didn't come with HIDs stock?

KillerG

i heard of people doing 6k top 3k bottom but double 3k is nuts lol. probably was blinding the living shit out of everyone.

and yeah we nj/nyc understand your anger.

greco9885

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how much is the ticket? $50 equipment violation? just pay it and be done with it

renedcruz

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Ok.

037

here's an interesting one to try.

Some headlights are designed in such a way that the light actually seems bluish even though you're running 4300k bulbs.

The headlight assembly has some impact on the color, see if you can run that by a cop.

I'm from NY running 8k low beams and 10k high beams when nobody is around.

no tickets so far.

ParaSurfer1979

Why would you run darker bulbs in your hi-beams? I guess u rarely us brights living in bright ass NYC anyway...lol.

037

well, the color gives me a clean indication of where my low beam ends and high begins. It is essentially 2 blobs of light on the road.

Also...it's good for getting slow drivers out of the way as they can see that it's not just my car jumping on pot holes since the color is a bit different.

LUTHOR-CL

that trooper is just another hater, try to fight it, and asked what the hell was the trooper talking about? what proof does he have, does he have pics? tell the judge yours is stock.
but this maybe too late you should have gone to a precint near you and swapped your bulbs before you get there too and have it written off, and just be liek thiat trooper was harrasing you or something.

i dont feel bad for stories about what happen to those fools

ParaSurfer1979

Wouldn't you want the light then to blend? Its like having 2 diff xenon bulbs lighting the ball field. It would drive me crazy to not have some uniformity. To each is own right? lol

KillerG

wait... if you have 10k high beams then that means you are running 10k DRL all the time in the daylight?

037

not exactly. HID strobe with low DRL voltage. I basically always drive with low beams on

tsx_jdm

thats insane....i got 6k on my whip n never got pulled over for n also running jdm headight n my corner lights are bluish...lol...... but u got some cornball cops n u got cops that be like nice car...lol.....pay it n forget it....keep it movin bro.....i got tints with no front plates n never have a problem ...goodluck

Tommys TL

gotta pay to play the game. i'm sure the other people running higher temp color will have to pay one day also.

07TLTypeS420

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lets see...if you got pulled over by a trooper you musta been on the turnpike, parkway, 195, 287, or like the atlantic city expressway. Which are all major highways and have a decent speed limit like 65. Sure you werent doin like 85? I find it a little hard to believe you got stopped just because of the bulbs. Something besides your lights must have caught his attention. No front plate maybe? Speeding? following to close?

I live in NJ myself and drive around all over the place with no front plate and havent gotten pulled over yet. But I obey all the laws!