People think I have my hi-beams on at night and give me the flash.
 

Does this happen to you too?

You are driving at night.. maybe coming over a hill.. and somebody in the opposite lane flashes their high beams at you.. but our headlights are only bright up until the cut-off mark. People get mad.

I even had one guy pull over, get behind me, and turn his brights on like it was payback. I wanted to punch him.

Tonight, someone flashed at me, but I had enough distance I could flash back and show them they're being an idiot.

Stories?

http://www.the370z.com/members/eazyd...my-z-night.png
(photo by my friend)

First off that picture is absolutely insane!! Where is that, looks like a scary movie scene.
Anyways, are you running stock bulbs? That is weird because if anything the stock bulbs aren't that bright and even the high beams are fairly weak for a bi-xenon on the Z. My friends GTI xenons are super bright and his high beams are blinding and are stock.

Thanks - the picture is at my house I'm renting on a farm.

Yes, my bulbs are stock. Maybe just a lot of people here on the backroads that aren't even used to HID lights. When I turn my brights on, it doesn't look like the bottom half gets brighter, just gets rid of the cut-off point basically.

Yeah, nice pic!

Hmm, maybe your head lamps are not aimed correctly? I have never had this problem in my 370z and I usually find my lights cut off (when tailing someone) just below their window (let alone getting up high enough to get to the back mirror, etc...)

:bowrofl:

Yeah ive had it happen to me before I switched out my hids to a higher rating. I was going down to the drive in movies a while back and the spot is actually deep in the woods. The roads are always two lane roads up there, and while I was driving people switched on their high beams and flashed me as they came closer, and since my lights didnt change they thought I wasnt being courteous and turning my high beams down, so they turned them back on. Lol, it didn't bother me, but the guy behind me kept flashing his high beams at opposing traffic because they didn't turn them down.

Never had this happen but I think out it about it all the times.. If you can try flashing high beams. That should make them feel like a dumba$$. But I doubt it.

:iagree: Great photo.

Last night I was at the bar and my friend pulled in the opposing entrance when we showed up, he said "dude your headlights are like the sun man", said he couldn't see anything when I pulled in. I'll also add that I think this is one of the main reasons people get out of the left hand lane at night when I'm trying to :driving:

I have never been flashed but I've flashed other cars with HID's but they have yet to flash back, so am I right? Not sure actually.

The high beams on our cars are so bright, I often find it hard to drive due to the high reflection from yellow warning signs, i.e. "Slow to 15 MPH."


I love your farm rental.

This pic is awesome! Yeah same thing happens to me all the time. I just flash my brights right back at people :driving:

Yep its happened to me a few times, and usually I get to flash them back. Stock bulbs and lowered on Swifts for me. It is annoying.

I never thought about the effects of lowering on headlights. Does visibility decrease significantly with a 1-1.5 inch drop?

^ good question

Also, I know our lights are meant to cut off at people's windows, but if you go over a small hill or bump, it gets them in the eyes.

Re: the farm house --- it's an awesome location...chickens and bunnies and stuff right outside our window... but it's a) super energy inefficient..no insulation on half the house, zero insulation on the roof... and b) all the floors are 100-year-old hardwood and are so creaky and echoey and that sucks too, no privacy.

RE: ^ good question- Excellent question.

Sometimes I follow a car more closely, I feel my lights are hitting them less than if I back off.

I noticed zero decrease in visibility once I put the springs on.

eazyd- cool pict! :tup:

get your headlight re-aimed. :)

If anything, I feel they don't let me see far enough out. It only gets in people's eyes when I crest a hill. If I hit a bump/pothole, it might look like I'm flashing my lights at them. Nothing to do with them being aimed wrong.

Yeah I know what you means like when theres a incline or decline on a hill it looks for a second like a flash. :icon17:

With the low ride height of our Z, I wonder how could the Z low-beam shines like high-beam to someone's mirror???


If those drivers complain about the low-beam of the Z, they'd have turn blind looong time ago with the high volume of low-beam from the SUVsss

agree???


:confused: :eekdance:

great photo, is there any photoshop going on other than basic contrast, saturation etc.?

I was thinking this as well.

No, that's how it came out of the camera. Canon 5D Mk-II with a nice lens on it.

Are you saying aim them lower? I feel like they are aimed fine. See the photo.. you can see the angle..

I told you guys it's only when going over a hill or road grade changes, are you reading this??

Dont bother re-aiming them if you're only getting in peoples eyes on bumps and hills. If anything, get a hotter bulb(meaning 6k and up) so you get a blue tint and thus less output. I'm pretty sure there's a DIY floating around on the forum. Killer pic BTW, definately wallpaper material :tup:

thanks for the input.

I wish I could get a higher res version for you guys, but he doesn't normally give those away for free.

I've had numerous friends tell me that my headlights are very bright and one commented how incredibly bright my high beam is after I flashed him.

You may need to lower your car more.

My suspension is stock.

maybe they're just signaling you there's a cop hiding in a bush up ahead? :confused:

:iagree:
I don't find my headlights to be as bright as other HID's. What a jip! Lol

Everyone now is running some aftermarket hid kit. A lot of them seem to be the 55w kit. In my previous car, it started to really bother my eyes driving at night. Not at all now with tints and the auto-dimming rear view. People that are running incorrectly adjusted bulbs or are high beaming are now a nonissue

Actually now that you mentioned it, last night 2 people high beamed me thinking I had my high beams on lol.

see!!! :icon18:

nevermind the flashing quesiton- that photo is excellent.

:tup:

That picture really is awesome. And this has definitely happened to me before. I have even gotten out of my car once to make sure everything was ok since I got so paranoid haha

No, the reflection on signs looks like a dying flashlight behind a newspaper, compared to the blinding, retina-searing glory of the high-beam blue LED in the dash.

I hate this, too. The point of high beams is to see outside better... if there's a blinding LED in the car while they're on, it kind of defeats the purpose.

Yeah there was a thread on this a while back http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-r...yone-else.html

They don't seem to bother me at all, but thats also because when I do use my high beams, I only use them for a short period of time, most of the roads I drive on are well lit, and have no need for high beam usage. :tup: