Smoked Lights?

[scathing]

I'm expecting a whole bunch of lolcat replies now.

[Munkyb0y]

I'm expecting a whole bunch of lolcat replies now.

nahhhh....what ? like this?

[anfo]

2 cans of nightshades and a buffer

apply all 2 cans of spray on your lights leave to dry, will be ugly matte finish now crack out the buffer and BUFF BUFF BUFF ps no hand buffers.

worked wonders on my celica RICE SPEC FTW!

[Keepleft]

Legality,

JVP was pretty much spot on the money. ADR's apply to 'new market' vehicles before first being sold.

What applies after this is the NVS - "National Vehicle Standards". In relation to lighting, pretty much an ADR duplicate.

Defect action would be on the basis of causing the compliant lamps to no longer be compliant.

Automotiove lamps must reach certain photometric performance criteria as outlined in ADR and World Standards, once a lamp has been 'tested' by an authorised testing agent, the lamp is given world compliance approval - the 'markings' you see on the lens of all automotive lamps. Compliance ceases once you bugger around with the lamp photometric performance, basically speaking 'brightness'.

Now at law, IF a crash happens on say a freeway under heavy fog (or in clear) and you have your taillights 'smoked' etc - and a person is seriously injured or killed by running into you, whilst generally speaking, the rear car is typically considered 'at fault', your 'contributory' actions can result in increased proportional blame, or blame directly being apportioned to you.

You could face even more severe consequence, or goal.

Whatever you do, just use a bit of commonsense, leave the rear red reflex reflectors alone, the rear fog that sort of thing. personally though, I'd not mess about with rear lighting, EXCEPT to buy compliant 'different' aftermarket taillights, see those markings again; "E marks" for a hint as to a lamps legality.

[R34NRG]

but what about tinting LED lights? they pump out a million times more light, so im sure if u tinted it a little bit it should still pass ADRs?

[-_-StRyDeR-_-]

yeh but its still tinting the lights. wether its bulb or LED, your still changing the amount of light that gets put out through the lense...

[R34NRG]

yeh but its still tinting the lights. wether its bulb or LED, your still changing the amount of light that gets put out through the lense...

but if its emmiting more then wat it originally did...wats the problem?

isnt that wat modifications are?

[scathing]

If you can get the tinted lights passed a signatory that has tested them for ADR compliance then, theoretically, you should be fine.

[-_-StRyDeR-_-]

there will probably be a standard for bulbs and a standard for LED's, if the light that get put out of either falls below that standard, then it will be illigal.

but hey i might be wrong, why dont you go ask Department of transport??

CJ

[funkymonkey]

the best thing and most unique characteristic of a skyline is the red stove tops... tinting em black is like a stripper getting a boob job to reduce her bust size.

[scathing]

getting a boob job to reduce her bust size.

Its like slapping God across the face?