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    Headlight Aimer, Thinking of Purchasing One Again.

    Oooh. I like it. My local Volvo dealer admitted they just aim the car at the wall and tweak the lights until they "look right".
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    Adaptive headlights approved for the US!

    Hmm. My comments were included in the quote.. weird. (ok, looks like I got it now) I've jokingly said that all cars should have a 6" spike mounted to the steering wheel. That might urge drivers to exercise some caution. I do like safety features, but ideally I prefer a great mass-transit...
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    Holley RetroBright headlamps? Good, bad or ugly?

    Thanks, I'll Czech that thread out.
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    Holley RetroBright headlamps? Good, bad or ugly?

    I found these; holley.com/products/exterior/lighting/headlight/rectangular_headlights/parts/LFRB120 This line concerns me - "Holley worked closely with Morimoto". I've read nothing but bad stuff about Morimoto for years, so I am guessing that Holley is aligning themselves with cheap Chinese...
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    Canbus headlamp aux. Circuit trigger

    My aging Volvo (2006) has a pigtail under the front of the car for driving lights. It's activated by adding an OEM driving light switch, which talks to the CANbus and tells it that it's for that pigtail. It might be worth digging into some factory options - could it be optioned with driving...
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    Why are headlamps made of plastic instead of glass?

    Wouldn't glass headlamps solve the fading plastic problem? Is it about cost? Weight savings? Impact resistance? Will a degraded reflector make a glass headlamp useless whether or not the glass is still clear or sandblasted from a few hundred thousand miles?
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    Red light better for night vision - any difference in LED vs. incandescent?

    I just completed a 2000 mile road trip in my old 2006 Volvo V70. I find myself dimming the cluster to just a hair over minimum at night and that lets me know my speed. I also like that the car has no giant displays of any kind. Dimming the cluster also dims the soft green light around the...
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    Flashlights for around the house/cars for outages. Lithium rechargeable?

    Thanks for your comments. The standby time of 10 years on the lithium CR123As is great. That means I could likely just replace them every 6-8 years, sort of like the annual swap in the smoke detectors at home. I didn't think of parasitic drain in electronic switches, so that's something to...
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    Flashlights for around the house/cars for outages. Lithium rechargeable?

    The recent outage here in Texas made me think that the flashlights I have might not be enough. I have an old 3 or 4 D-cell Maglite with the incandescent bulb. Would that be decent if I picked up an LED 'conversion' bulb for it? I also have some generic rubberized LED flashlights that are...
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    Low Profile Flood Lights For My Van

    Depending on how dedicated you are, you could mount them to a rail so they're hidden under the rack, but when you want to use them, they slide out 6-12 inches to extend past the body of the van.
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    UV resistant coating for lights?

    I found that polishing my Volvo (2006 V70, plastic!) headlamps was futile. I didn't realize this until I got my new (OEM) ones in. The polished ones I was so proud of were crap in comparison to the new one. I tried covering my car with a car cover at work to save the headlamps (and window...
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    Headlight Restoration Kit Review + Good Price

    Interesting. I polished my old Volvo headlamps and thought they looked pretty good. I didn't realize how crappy the polished ones were until my OEM replacements arrived from Europe, and side by side, the polished ones were in sad shape. Since then, I've told people that I wouldn't really...
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    Red light better for night vision - any difference in LED vs. incandescent?

    It seems the links were dead in there, but the comments seem to indicate that red=good, other colors=bad. 1, I saw that a couple of times on a 7 hour drive. Several cars had the DRLs running and nothing on in the back. I'd think the easy part there is to just let your regular lights be DRL...
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    Red light better for night vision - any difference in LED vs. incandescent?

    I was talking to a friend about the light pollution in cars with screens and TFT dashes etc. Then I was curious - red light is less harmful for night vision, correct? Is there a difference if that red light is emitted by a diode vs. by a glowing filament? A difference in...
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    Options for Driving Lights

    Oh man, the little pictures in Hella's ads make them look pretty beastly. I rarely drive out in the sticks (2006 Volvo V70 - not the best OEM lights ever made) so I haven't been too tempted by driving lights, but these look like they'd be fun to try AND they'd possibly be low profile enough to...
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