XFool wrote:XFool wrote:"The RAC says there could be a number of reasons for why dazzling is becoming an increased problem, blaming the latest blue-tint LED bulbs, drivers failing to adjust their headlights and the rise in SUV ownership."
Or could this refer to Xenon headlights? (Which is what started this thread off years ago)
True of both,I'm sure. One difference is that proper Xenons used to require a brick-sized thingummy on the back of each headlight, that was often so large that it wouldn't fit the front bulkhead. (So people cheated by using the illegal variety. And accidentally forgot about the wash/wipe and self-levelling requirement.
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Whereas LED bulbs are really not much larger than the old halogens,which means that any oik with £30 to spare can change them. Without thinking, or perhaps caring, whether the scatter from their differently located light source might get a dangerously different result from the reflector on the
front (whoops, back) of their headlamp units. (Which they also forget to change.)
The glare problem is getting very bad on our local country lanes, especially after closing time. Fortunately, many of the perpetrators have had the courtesy to turn one headlamp off, thus halving the blinder factor.
BJ