Blue lights on front of car

TaurenDruid

Hey. Just in the last couple of months, I've noticed a load of cars with a single or double small blue LED in the front, near the headlights. It's most noticeable at night, especially in the rear-view mirror.

Aren't blue lights supposed to be reserved for emergency services? Are these legal? Are they modifications of some kind, or just fitted as standard on new cars? If the latter - why - what's their purpose?

coz they look cool

bladespin

Yes, No, Yes, plenty of idiots out there.

Beau Bennett

It doesn't matter if they are illegal or not. Nobody is going to enforce it.

timsey tiger

Maybe they are there to intimidate other drivers into yielding to them ( by pretending to be cops ). I guess if they are not flashing

TaurenDruid

timsey tiger wrote: »

Maybe they are there to intimidate other drivers into yielding to them ( by pretending to be cops ). I guess if they are not flashing

Nope, not flashing - just a blue solid blue LED. But it is distracting. I've been on a busy single-carriageway road and heard sirens from behind - looking in the mirrors (at night), I see about four or five "blue lights" behind me - but they're all regular cars!

timsey tiger

Yes definately not cops, so try and ignore. But I agree very distracting and annoying. Some people...

scamalert

that **** is so outdated and looks miserable, blue bulbs in fog slots. sign of a muppet, but as others said barely or not at all enforced execpt maybe when nct is due.

punisher5112

The new Hyundai roads policing and fire cars have the function to stay visible, I think it's stupid as they're way too bright and look to many like they're on to get by for example...

punisher5112

I had purple lights on my gillera runner.... Fitted them low down and on the sides...

Have to say looked well. Didn't fit to front lights though.

listermint

Some of the Osram range can give of a blue hue. The night breakers in my last car did that. Wasn't intentional to buy blue lights just something to illuminate the road better. No blueness was advertised on the packaging.


So it's not all games OP

Cee-Jay-Cee

Classic wanker lights.

**** fit them to their cars so that other **** recognise them. It’s their ‘thing’. It must be noted that all **** with blue LED parking or fog lights are of very low intelligence and shouldn’t be judged solely on their blue lights but if the car in question is a VW Golf or Bora/Jetta (usually 105bhp) and has been fitted with a pigeon/boo pipe then they can be judged and derided as you see fit as they are the biggest **** of all.

corks finest

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Classic wanker lights.

**** fit them to their cars so that other **** recognise them. It’s their ‘thing’. It must be noted that all **** with blue LED parking or fog lights are of very low intelligence and shouldn’t be judged solely on their blue lights but if the car in question is a VW Golf or Bora/Jetta (usually 105bhp) and has been fitted with a pigeon/boo pipe then they can be judged and derided as you see fit as they are the biggest **** of all.

Good reply

jimbis

Whats worse is the cheap leds tend to flicker after a while and then when they're blue....

listermint

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Classic wanker lights.

**** fit them to their cars so that other **** recognise them. It’s their ‘thing’. It must be noted that all **** with blue LED parking or fog lights are of very low intelligence and shouldn’t be judged solely on their blue lights but if the car in question is a VW Golf or Bora/Jetta (usually 105bhp) and has been fitted with a pigeon/boo pipe then they can be judged and derided as you see fit as they are the biggest **** of all.

Am I a wanker for buying Osram night breakers bulbs to improve visibility? My previous car had stock xenon and the next one didn't so I bought an off the shelf Osram bulb and I do t drive a Passat.


Your views are irrational . The car doesn't go faster or dazzle anything it just sees the road better.

These aren't a cheap bulb not are they LED kits

Del2005

listermint wrote: »

Am I a wanker for buying Osram night breakers bulbs to improve visibility? My previous car had stock xenon and the next one didn't so I bought an off the shelf Osram bulb and I do t drive a Passat.


Your views are irrational . The car doesn't go faster or dazzle anything it just sees the road better.

These aren't a cheap bulb not are they LED kits

The blue tint off night breakers, or most of the HIDs, are not what the OP is talking about. They are complaining about morons who replace their parking light bulbs with a blue bulb/LED while maintaining their crap halogen dipped beam.

punisher5112

Haven't seen the blue light water jet covers in a while....
Use to be on civics a lot.

Remember a guy in school the dad thought he was 17 and he bought a prelude because it had a stupid body kit on it and just tarted up to sh1t.,.

Paid €30k and you could pick them up for much much less then that and it was like 7 or 8 years old already....

He fitted them blue lights and red in the headlights housing as the car was red....

What a tool.

Cee-Jay-Cee

listermint wrote: »

Am I a wanker for buying Osram night breakers bulbs to improve visibility? My previous car had stock xenon and the next one didn't so I bought an off the shelf Osram bulb and I do t drive a Passat.


Your views are irrational . The car doesn't go faster or dazzle anything it just sees the road better.

These aren't a cheap bulb not are they LED kits

Calm down child, If you had taken the time to read my reply I was referring to people who fit blue LED Bulbs in their parking lights or fog lights not HID effect bulbs. You decided that you fitted into the category of people this thread was referring to, nobody made any mention of osram hid effect bulbs so get off your tiny little horse and go and be offended somewhere else.

zilog_jones

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

...and has been fitted with a pigeon/boo pipe...

Is that what those pathetic yokes are called? Sounds like their cars are crying...

punisher5112

zilog_jones wrote: »

Is that what those pathetic yokes are called? Sounds like their cars are crying...

It's cuuuuu cuuuu

Turbo dump valves....

L1011

punisher5112 wrote: »

It's cuuuuu cuuuu

Turbo dump valves....

Except most of them are actually speakers playing a sound effect, on cars without a turbo to dump

http://www.akamoto.co.uk/dump-valve.asp etc

zilog_jones

Nah, I know what dump valves sound like, and ~100 bhp TDIs don't have dump valves. These things sound more like injured pigeons. Some wastegate/exhaust shenanigans apparently, and explains why the arses of these cars are usually black with soot as they've most certainly bypassed the DPF and everything else...

garv123

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Nope, not flashing - just a blue solid blue LED. But it is distracting. I've been on a busy single-carriageway road and heard sirens from behind - looking in the mirrors (at night), I see about four or five "blue lights" behind me - but they're all regular cars!

Are you talking about Blue, as in proper blue spot lights as per pic or just a blue tinge coming off the newer cars LEDs?
I do find I notice a blue colour coming from newer cars a lot.

jim salter

zilog_jones wrote: »

Is that what those pathetic yokes are called? Sounds like their cars are crying...

Decat exhausts (removing the cat and replacing with a straight through pipe)

TaurenDruid

garv123 wrote: »

Are you talking about Blue, as in proper blue spot lights as per pic or just a blue tinge coming off the newer cars LEDs?
I do find I notice a blue colour coming from newer cars a lot.

Neither. It's not just a blue tinge, but it's not a full blue spotlight or set of LED's either. It looks like it's a single LED on either side, towards the bottom or beside the main headlight.

kaahooters

if yoiu wear glasses for astigmatism, that will cause a blue "halo" just off the main lights.

TaurenDruid

kaahooters wrote: »

if yoiu wear glasses for astigmatism, that will cause a blue "halo" just off the main lights.

I guess that might be a possibility, judging by the number of these lights I'm seeing now as compared to a couple of years ago, although it really does look like a LED rather than a "halo". Is there a name for the phenomenon?

corks finest

listermint wrote: »

Am I a wanker for buying Osram night breakers bulbs to improve visibility? My previous car had stock xenon and the next one didn't so I bought an off the shelf Osram bulb and I do t drive a Passat.


Your views are irrational . The car doesn't go faster or dazzle anything it just sees the road better.

These aren't a cheap bulb not are they LED kits

No you're not,and osram nightbreakers are great, think the op is on about dickheads who have a strobe light or kinda strip light on the bumper/ grill

corks finest

jim salter wrote: »

Decat exhausts (removing the cat and replacing with a straight through pipe)

Awfully bright unlike the car owner

zilog_jones

corks finest wrote: »

No you're not,and osram nightbreakers are great, think the op is on about dickheads who have a strobe light or kinda strip light on the bumper/ grill

I think it's parking lights or fog lights, I've seen these in various (bad) colours. Purple and pink too.

Cee-Jay-Cee

corks finest wrote: »

No you're not,and osram nightbreakers are great, think the op is on about dickheads who have a strobe light or kinda strip light on the bumper/ grill

No the OP is on about blue LED bulbs fitted in parking lights, is it that difficult to simply read the opening post? No one mentioned strobe or strip lights or HID effect lights.

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Hey. Just in the last couple of months, I've noticed a load of cars with a single or double small blue LED in the front, near the headlights. It's most noticeable at night, especially in the rear-view mirror.

timsey tiger

It really is not that difficult to read the op. However, the op does not say that the blue lights are fitted in the parking lights. It says that they are "near the headlights". Infact in post #25 the OP specifically states that he is not talking about blue lights fitted in the parking lights.

TaurenDruid

kaahooters wrote: »

if yoiu wear glasses for astigmatism, that will cause a blue "halo" just off the main lights.

So, given the above, I carried out some rigourous scientific research over the last while (well - I specifically looked out for the blue lights while out walking, rather than just noticing it while driving, but that totally counts!)

Turns out, yes, there are a very small number of cars that do actually have blue lights fitted, but those muppets aside, I am definitely seeing the blue effect a lot more, due to astigmatism, on cars with bright white LED headlights.

I'd never heard of that happening before, so every day is a schoolday!

c_murph

TaurenDruid wrote: »

So, given the above, I carried out some rigourous scientific research over the last while (well - I specifically looked out for the blue lights while out walking, rather than just noticing it while driving, but that totally counts!)

Turns out, yes, there are a very small number of cars that do actually have blue lights fitted, but those muppets aside, I am definitely seeing the blue effect a lot more, due to astigmatism, on cars with bright white LED headlights.

I'd never heard of that happening before, so every day is a schoolday!

As someone who has worn glasses since the age of about seven, I get this too - a blue effect directly below modern white headlights (always below them for me). Most noticeable from a distance where I did think it was a separate blue light sometimes, but closer up it becomes clearer it's not a blue light, just a feature of white lights.

corks finest

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Hey. Just in the last couple of months, I've noticed a load of cars with a single or double small blue LED in the front, near the headlights. It's most noticeable at night, especially in the rear-view mirror.

Aren't blue lights supposed to be reserved for emergency services? Are these legal? Are they modifications of some kind, or just fitted as standard on new cars? If the latter - why - what's their purpose?

Few hearses in Cork have green ones , don't know why

AndrewJRenko

c_murph wrote: »

As someone who has worn glasses since the age of about seven, I get this too - a blue effect directly below modern white headlights (always below them for me). Most noticeable from a distance where I did think it was a separate blue light sometimes, but closer up it becomes clearer it's not a blue light, just a feature of white lights.

Metoo on the myopia and the blue lights - especially when looking in my wing mirror on the M50. I'm sure the Gardai are chasing me every time, but it's just another newish car.

Oafley Jones

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Metoo on the myopia and the blue lights - especially when looking in my wing mirror on the M50. I'm sure the Gardai are chasing me every time, but it's just another newish car.

I get this, but it's only with Toyotas for some reason.

JustARandomGuy

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Classic wanker lights.

**** fit them to their cars so that other **** recognise them. It’s their ‘thing’. It must be noted that all **** with blue LED parking or fog lights are of very low intelligence and shouldn’t be judged solely on their blue lights but if the car in question is a VW Golf or Bora/Jetta (usually 105bhp) and has been fitted with a pigeon/boo pipe then they can be judged and derided as you see fit as they are the biggest **** of all.

I've factory xenons on mine and I've "blue" LED parking lights because they look much cleaner than standard yellow bulbs. Does that make me a wanker? I drive a 190hp Audi A4 Avant (1.8T, but no cooo noises sadly)

Andrewf20

L1011 wrote: »

Except most of them are actually speakers playing a sound effect, on cars without a turbo to dump

http://www.akamoto.co.uk/dump-valve.asp etc

"Approx 200db on xl edition" :rolleyes:

So basically louder than a rocket launch.

antodeco

JustARandomGuy wrote: »

I've factory xenons on mine and I've "blue" LED parking lights because they look much cleaner than standard yellow bulbs. Does that make me a wanker? I drive a 190hp Audi A4 Avant (1.8T, but no cooo noises sadly)

Quoting the "HP" of the car doesnt help your case! :pac:

punisher5112

antodeco wrote: »

Quoting the "HP" of the car doesnt help your case! :pac:

Boy racer, should be banned....

If they are the Philips blue tint but give off a crisp white light that's fine but actual blue ones are illegal.

Don't like the standard yellow colour ones... Warm white as they're known as.

bladespin

JustARandomGuy wrote: »

I've factory xenons on mine and I've "blue" LED parking lights because they look much cleaner than standard yellow bulbs. Does that make me a wanker?

Nope, but:

JustARandomGuy wrote: »

I drive a 190hp Audi A4 Avant (1.8T, but no cooo noises sadly)

It's those bits that do. :P

Cee-Jay-Cee

JustARandomGuy wrote: »

I've factory xenons on mine and I've "blue" LED parking lights because they look much cleaner than standard yellow bulbs. Does that make me a wanker? I drive a 190hp Audi A4 Avant (1.8T, but no cooo noises sadly)

Yes, I'm afraid it does. You can get white LED lights if you want them to match your HIDs.