Recent content by AlaricD

It'll be interesting to see if this kind of marketing continues, now that Truck-Lite has acquired Rigid. Truck-Lite may be somewhat more businesslike, considering their desire to capture and hold the fleet market, where standards compliance is a major concern. Not that such marketing doesn't...

Who made those bulbs you like so much? How do you know they're better? Also... what if I told you that you could buy things without giving Daniel Stern your money? I buy things all the time and he hasn't gotten any of it!

Actually, to get the amount of filtration at the bulb to get the fully-saturated selective yellow, you're decreasing light output to the same level that you'd decrease it by filtering at any other stage. That's how filtration works. It doesn't matter if it's at the bulb, a secondary envelope...

Excellent job on the paint! They both look like cadmium glass! Good idea to avoid the yellow bulbs. There aren't any selective yellow bulbs worth buying. One might think that if anyone had them, it'd be Hella, but Hella doesn't make their own bulbs. They're made by the lowest bidder in some...

Kindof like a Rolecks or Seyko watch (not to mention Sorny, Panaphonic, and Magnetbox).

Let's put a point in your column for that one, kojack. I'm sure the FIAT is fun to drive-- but it probably stops being fun on the wrong terrain (you probably don't get a lot of people asking you to help them move things, though).

They could at LEAST give you some gas money, right?

Don't troll. It's unbecoming. What it means is "they messed up an important road safety detail big time". If they mess up something so simple (yes, it's actually quite simple to determine if a headlamp is decent or not, and a company that charges $80K+ to bolt stuff on an existing car almost...

You just don't get it. Suppose [your favorite brand of food] started selling "Li'l Krunchies Arsenic-Coated Mercury Puffs", and you knew with certainty that a) that's certainly not "food" because the FDA would obviously never allow such a product on the market-- yet there it is, and b)...

Just get a trailer hitch for your belt and tow all that behind you!

Indeed, you're not. The listings in the Title 49 CFR Part 571 make reference to the standards, but don't have the entire standards in them. I'm not disappointed, though-- I can't expect everyone to know these things, unless they're actually designing vehicle lighting systems-- such as AEV when...

You have an inkling that there is some requirement that exists that you don't know about, so at least there's that-- you know that there IS something you don't know. The positional requirement is but one of many requirements. Just like they're obviously guessing at how to build a compliant...

This company is willing to sell illegal and underperforming equipment. They call the headlamps, which are in every respect a downgrade, an "upgrade", meaning they don't know what they're talking about. They make or have made for them a CHMSL that isn't safe or effective and is illegal, meaning...

I *guess* we could weigh it AGAIN, but:

'Course, the baby seat for the passenger might bring it over that. And who's going to *drive*?