drako said:
First off those are blue bulbs. They wont melt anything as long as the wattage is correct. Secound the true HID lights are not illegal in the US. They cant make them illegal. Do you know how many cars they would have to recall that come with HID's stock. Not going to happen. And i have a cop as a brother in law and one uncle is a Lt. in one department and the other is a Highway patrol here in FL. They would know if they were illegal.
True HID retrofit kits (not stock HIDs) are indeed now illegal in the US, and the NHTSA just started enforcing the law and threatening to fine manufacturers who import/sell them. Your cop relatives need to keep up on current events. Do a search of google on NHTSA and HID and you will see what I mean. Or contact those who sell the kits.
Edit: And so I don't have to post this later, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration promulgates administrative regulations. The highway patrol and municipal police do not administer federal regulations. The feds aren't going to pull over cars with aftermarket kits, but they will levy fines to stop the importation.
Yes, you can still run your HIDs and even buy them from the right places, but your local law enforcement may or may not take notice when you drive down the street, as they do now.
Here is the parting word from science of speed:
NHTSA has not created any new legislation because there was already preemptive regulations governing these types of products. Sadly, the regulations are antiquated, and have very little relevance to HID products. What they are doing now is taking an aggressive actions to eliminate these types of products. Since NHTSA does not have real local governing power, they are accomplishing this by cutting off supply. Many of the major manufactures and distributors have already been notified through cease and desist documents. A date of August 15th has been assigned to have these manufactures and distributors respond with acknowledgement of these demands including significant fines after this date if these companies are not in compliance. Unfortunately, the cease and desist letters are very vague, and many businesses are confused on how the cut-off date is defined, and whether there will be any unlikely professional courtesy buffer time to allow these companies to minimize losses.
Sadly, the generic universal kits used on reflector headlight applications likely motivated these actions and products designed for suitable applications will suffer. The safety that HID affords to NSX drivers at night, and the safe lighting output a properly designed kit emits is unfortunately irrelevant in the big picture.
What we are doing now is stocking spare parts so we can continue to offer warranty support for our existing customers.
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