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How come Blue CCFL angel eyes are allowed? or are they not?

  • 14-11-2013 11:08PM
    #1
    arleitiss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,512 ✭✭✭


    Saw recently a E46 driving with blue CCFL angel eyes, I felt like I am high by looking at them, a color you dont' see every day on road , then I saw police pass them yet they didn't stop or say anything, are they legal or what's the story on these?


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  • #2
    visual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭visual


    Of course they are not legal.

    NCT will probably pull them up on it at next test.


  • #3
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,877 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Most just temporarily remove them for the NCT. Gardaí for the majority of time probably don't care unless they are stopping them for something else or at a checkpoint.


  • #4
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    What's the problem with blue angel eyes? Mine are LED in a light blue tint and have gone through six NCTs now with no problem. Factory 5, 7 series and X5 angel eyes are whitish/blue from the factory.


  • #5
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    What's the problem with blue angel eyes? Mine are LED in a light blue tint and have gone through six NCTs now with no problem.

    Against EU/NCT regulations apparently.

    Anyway, don't encourage the OP, he's bad enough as it is, just do a search on his previous threads.


  • #6
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Stheno wrote: »
    Against EU/NCT regulations apparently.

    Anyway, don't encourage the OP, he's bad enough as it is, just do a search on his previous threads.

    Define blue, in terms of kelvin colour temperature


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  • #7
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭BMJD


    arleitiss wrote: »
    I saw police pass them yet they didn't stop or say anything

    lol yer new 'round these parts, ain't ya?


  • #8
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    challengemaster wrote: »
    Define blue, in terms of kelvin colour temperature

    NO idea of kelvin colour temp, but that glow in the dark almost punk blue is what I think of, like a bright turquoise?

    Never seen it myself, my car is so low, normal headlights blind me, so I don't differentiate anymore :)


  • #9
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    colortemp.jpgLES%20-%20Kelvin%20Scale.jpg


  • #10
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,877 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I'd say the OP is probably referring to those aftermarket HID kits fitted to cars with reflector headlamps that blind other road users.


  • #11
    arleitiss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,512 ✭✭✭arleitiss


    blue%20angel%20eye%20e63_e65_e60%20v1.jpg

    This is what I am talking about. Also please stop derailing threads by saying "search his previous posts" I asked completely unrelated question.


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  • #12
    flintash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭flintash


    Illegal alright. I had it for nearly two years, untill i ran into cop who was bored to hell... and enforced rules on the road once in a while....
    Law is the law.Though I dont see any problem with it, its not like people were pulling out of my way if I was confusing them...
    p.s I get blinded by these fancy running light on brand new cars.... wish I could ban them too...


  • #13
    arleitiss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,512 ✭✭✭arleitiss


    flintash wrote: »
    Illegal alright. I had it for nearly two years, untill i ran into cop who was bored to hell... and enforced rules on the road once in a while....
    Law is the law.Though I dont see any problem with it, its not like people were pulling out of my way if I was confusing them...
    p.s I get blinded by these fancy running light on brand new cars.... wish I could ban them too...

    I am okay with blue tint headlights in new cars as they are usually factory installed and are set up in a way that you don't even see a difference, but those blue angel eyes I saw made me think an UFO is floating on a road, probably the fact that it was dark and guy was driving only with those blue eyes on contributed to that feeling.


  • #14
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    arleitiss wrote: »
    blue%20angel%20eye%20e63_e65_e60%20v1.jpg

    This is what I am talking about. Also please stop derailing threads by saying "search his previous posts" I asked completely unrelated question.

    Ah, Then yes, illegal.
    S.I. No. 189/1963:

    ROAD TRAFFIC (LIGHTING OF VEHICLES) REGULATIONS, 1963.


    Restrictions on lighting-colour.
    41. (1) (a) A vehicle shall not be equipped with lighting which when lit shows any light to the front of the vehicle except a white or yellow light.


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