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Old 08-23-2011, 03:58 PM
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Has anyone replaced their high beam lights with low beam lights? The result would be driving at night with four low beam lights on to help with illuminating the road. This would not blind drivers with your high beams. Of course you would have to adjust the former high beams. Or how about just aiming the high beams lower.
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kinda defeats the purpose of having high beams.

buy some and try it...4703's will fit in 4701 sockets so why not...but I don't think you'll like it.

if you do this realize you'll loose your fogs unless you wire those in to stay on with the highs on

and you'll have the blue high beam dash light on ALL THE TIME!...another annoyance
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Just get a good set of HIDs and call it a day
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I did it two my previous two t/a's many moons ago. My current one i have never thought about doing. Mostly just being lazy.
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A friend of mine had a car that had 4 sealed beams, 2 low, 2 high just like the birds do. He replaced them with a kit that gave him low and high beams in both locations, so he had 4 lows and also 4 highs. He had the outer pair aimed lower/outward a bit, then the inner pair slightly upward, basically to fill in the illuminated area better. Seemed to work OK.

I don't know what type of conversions he used, or what size they were. It was on an old Monza.
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i bet you would get pulled over all the time and have to explain to the cop that they are low beams and still get a ticket somehow.

especially if he's a *****!
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Um HIDs...
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Originally Posted by stroked383HSR
i bet you would get pulled over all the time and have to explain to the cop that they are low beams and still get a ticket somehow.

especially if he's a *****!
My friend never had a problem. And really, you'd probably be more likely to get a ticket with HIDs in there as they ARE basically having your high beams on when putting them in reflectors, especially the sealed beam reflectors.

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Um HIDs...
Unless done right, with proper projectors, no. But I'm not going to argue over it again either. Suffice it to say HID + halogen reflector = glare and less usable light.
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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
Suffice it to say HID + halogen reflector = glare and less usable light.
x2. Do it right and get some projectors, either the BLS direct replacements or DIY, like me
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It would work. I don't think you would get pulled over as you are allowed to have four headlamps on at one time. Fog lights don't do **** anyways, so you wouldn't miss those.



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