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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My point exactly. The brightness is great, when it works in your favor. But when a modern car sits at such a height, where the low-beams shine directly over the top of my car, it's obnoxious

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That, and people don't know how to adjust them, or are unwilling to. My parents' cars have a dial to adjust the headlight angle for when carrying weight in the back of the car, or when towing, but they never touch the setting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I miss that in my old car. When I'm drivng around in the city and don't rally need much headlighting I'd angle them all the way down. When I'm in a dark area where there's enough people that I can't use my brights I'd just angle them up. My current car has stupid self leveling headlights so I don't get any of that fun :(

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Especially when people fuck with the ride height on their trucks. They almost always end up with the front higher than the back, relative to it's stock setting. Then don't bother to adjust the head light angle to compensate.

Then, on I need a massive light bar on the top of my truck. Never mind that I never take this thing off road or do any work with it. It looks cool and it's bright and shiny.

Fuck off. Can we just tax these things properly and not v give them a lower tax rate since their classed as commercial vehicles. No one buying these massive boats uses them for more than going to home Depot once a year to buy some leaf bags.

/Rant