Need a JDM lesson: What's with yellow head/fog lights?
 

I was thinking about applying yellow film to the foglights on my 2013 however I'm hesitant because I don't know the significance. I think if kept to an accent it can look really nice. Are yellow headlights and foglights a JDM thing or just a taste preference?

I've seen a few cars with them and I get it's not for everyone so flame(suit) on!

yellow light penetrates through the fog better.

There are two classes of race cars in the 24 hour Daytona race racing at the same time but not in competition with each other. The GT cars have yellow headlights and the Daytona prototype cars have white headlights. This way you can tell at night by the color of the headlights of the car behind you if this is a car you are competing with for position or not.

And...which one to get the hell out of the way!







Yellow? ...pretty cheesy on the street.

:iagree: Yeah, yellow died out in the 90's

90s is where most of my car obsession originated from as a kid. :(

Lol, buy a blue Subaru, or an Acura Legend or one of those POS Civics/Integras/ricer cars from the 90's

I'm gonna try it out anyway just to see how it looks. It can always be removed later if it's too cheesy. I'll throw some pictures up when I get the chance.

Lol, did I bash too much?

:owned:

I've seen yellows back in the early 80's so that's been done and around for a while. Works great in the rain (and someone said fog too). It has function but the look is discouraging IMHO.

Looks like not enough, he's still doing it. Your starting to slack Andrew :p

It MIGHT match, if we had yellow in our heads/tails/signal lenses.

Hey hey now! I'm sure we almost all started with a civic or integra. Not everyone went ricer and my 290hp 11.5 1/4 99 si was not rice. Still to this day the fastest car I've owned since my 335hp WRX weighed 1000lbs more (11.7 1/4) and this pig of a 370z won't be breaking any records any time soon. :icon23:

OP I absolutely despise yellow headlights. Every time I see one I don't care what car it is, I cringe. It just looks like absolute trash on any car.

A base 370Z (3232 lbs) and WRX (3208 lbs) have pretty much the same curb weight.


I completely agree when we're talking about street cars. ALMS cars can get a pass.

As mentioned yellow headlights are used in racing series to differentiate a second class of cars running at the same time. What hasn't been mentioned is that the yellow lights are given to the SLOWER class.

If you've ever watched SuperGT (where the fad trickles down from to JDM then USDM) I can't help but think about the faster GT500 cars strobing their white lights at the GT300 cars (running yellow) to communicate "move bitch get out the way."

Slower, not slow. At least in ALMS. Those slower cars are still beasts, they're just not the absolute monsters the big boys are.