Legal or Not

[NickPic83]

i thought all LEDS are not DOT rated so that makes them all illegal to use on the street. in some states if u have them u have to have covers on them to make them unusable on streets

 

[Five-O Donut Hole]

Go to a donut shop and buy a cop another donut and while you are chatting have him look at your lights and tell you if they would be a concern.

Yes, all off-road lighting are illegal to operate on the public roadways. I run the same set up in the bumper openings but have them aimed towards the ground...have yet to be flashed by anyone.

And by the way RDFTS, this isn't the 70's, most of us don't eat donuts or rock a ***** mustache....cue the music

 

[Deleted member 12951]

Yes, all off-road lighting are illegal to operate on the public roadways. I run the same set up in the bumper openings but have them aimed towards the ground...have yet to be flashed by anyone.



And by the way RDFTS, this isn't the 70's, most of us don't eat donuts or rock a ***** mustache....cue the music

So serious.....

 

[Five-O Donut Hole]

So serious.....

C'mon really? Donuts, ***** mustaches and ***** music...ain't nothing serious bout that on an early Friday morning!

 

[Deleted member 12951]

C'mon really? Donuts, ***** mustaches and ***** music...ain't nothing serious bout that on an early Friday morning!

Well I have a mustache and eat the occasion donut when brought into the office while listen to pandora and look at the RSH thread when no one is looking.....

BTW, my earlier comment was a joke but think it wouldn't hurt to ask a cop which looks like who you are so good enough.

 

[Ruger]

I have your answer, muddin. You have LED fog lights. They are not street legal. No automotive LED lighting product (with the exception of factory DRLs) is street legal. Ask the manufacturer of your fog lights if they are DOT approved, and he will admit that they're not.

You will have to aim them lower to stay out of trouble with them. PIAA has an excellent page on aiming fog lights and driving lights. See here: PIAA | Lamp Aiming Guide

 

[Idleone]

I drive with my amber rigid's on all the time with no worries. Just make sure you point them way down. Spend some time adjusting them. Go somewhere, get out and look where the point and if they are annoying or not.

 

[Reptar]

two different concerns.

are they technically illegal and do you want to be a law abiding citizen? you'll have to check local laws, they can vary from place to place, but odds are they aren't legal to run on the roads.

are they blinding to other drivers and do you want to be a ****** running blinding lights even if it's technically legal through some loophole? I'm going to guess the answer is no lol. If you're getting flashed from other drivers, whether they're legal or not, you need to try to adjust them. Best advice was already mentioned, ask someone else to drive your truck and you drive in their car (lower to the ground) and see how bad it is for yourself. Both oncoming, and directly in front to see how it is in the mirrors. If it's blinding, adjust the lights. If it's still blinding after adjusting, don't run them on the street.

Guarantee for every 1 person who flashes their lights, there's probably 5 or 10 other people who are annoyed with them and didn't flash. Don't be "that" guy with the blinding lights lol.


And if it is illegal technically, if you adjust them and they aren't blidning, then I wouldn't worry about them being illegal technically, if they aren't bothering anyone, odds are you won't get a ticket for them.

 

[Raptor Embroidery]

Great advice above ^

It was the same thing with my stock headlights. Being a 2011, the projectors were not out yet. And driving on alot of the roads around here as well as long trips, crappy halogen headlights get to you. I thought a 35w HID kit would be alright... I mean what harm could be done if I aim them down? ALOT. Halogen housings are not meant to house HID bulbs. The reason is the bulb cover does not cover up a bulb that is that intense.

I went with anzo projector headlights with HID simply because I cannot drop 1k+ on retrofits. I wish I could though...

Honestly, the anzos have a super sharp beam cut off and I never get flashed unless im going up a hill and my lights are shining up in someones windshield. But that happens rarely. Although that has happened to all of us many many times. Its something you can't help.

But running LED fog lights are different. There is no shield over the bulb. What I'm looking into doing is getting projector fog lights. I've seen them before and the lights worked surprisingly well. With the rigid "fog light" kit and 2 either spot or flood duallies and 2 projector fog lights, I would have a versatile set-up. The reason being is the projector fogs would be road legal and the duallies would be off-road use only, like they were meant to be.

Projector fogs also function very efficiently seeing as how the very top section of the beam has a sharp cut-off. Instead of having light spill like a regular reflector-housing, having the sharp cut-off to filter spill light and focus it under the fog would give you an incredible night time fog driving set-up. Many new more expensive cars are running a similar set-up. But I feel its more important on a truck since the main lights are alot higher than a car.