Headlights confusion for oncoming drivers?

[Bob The Builder]

The ones that really get me are the guys who install LED bulbs in factory halogen designed reflectors. Generally someone who does that also does not give two hoots for at least making sure the housings are adjusted the best they can.

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[raymaines]

I think the fact that the Maverick uses 2 LED lights rather than just one for the headlights, is confusing some drivers. An oncoming driver flashed their brights at me (at close range) because they must have thought I had my brights on seeing 4 lights lit up.

I don't think I'd bother to count your headlights and then decide to either flash or not flash my lights at you so much as I'd flash my lights to tell you that your lights are aimed too high. Your lights may be misaimed and you might want to ask your dealer to check the alignment.

 

[MLowe05]

How is your Integra (H/L wise)?

Wife's RDX has the 7-lens projectors, probably the best OEM H/L performance of anything I've driven.

Yep, Integra is up near the top in terms of headlight performance. It has 4-lens projectors on each side. It took me by surprise how much better they are than the LED reflector units in the Civic touring, which themselves are quite good and far better than the Maverick.

Number 1 spot goes to our 2016 Mercedes E-class which had AFS and digital matrix LEDs that we had coded to EU spec, so it would shade out cars while maintaining high beam. I hear now that this tech is going to be legal in the USA and it is about time. The difference that made following cars at night on backroads was amazing.

 

[MLowe05]

I have more problems with the idiots that actually drive at night with their high beams on all the time

This. It is a fucking epidemic and cops really, really need to crack down on it. These are almost always halogen-equipped vehicles where a bulb replacement would be $10 and the person decides they'll just use high beams 100% of the time. I am not a LEO, but if I were I could write dozens of tickets every night in this town for that.

And Nissans driving with only their DRLs on, as well.

 

[BlueSnake77]

Then you got the idiots in Pickups and jeeps that add as many lights as possible to the front of thier vehicles and drive with all of them on so they look like the mother ship from Close encounters of the third kind. Like little kids trying to get attention. Look at me! Look at me!

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