Hi everyone, I landed here after researching if mounting a 26mxh light bar on the back of the 2009 Jeep Patriot would be legal. My reason for this is the high beams from behind. In PENNSYLVANIA, people like to show. I would only use it when I can`t even see through my mirrors because my taxi is lit by someone who radiates me from behind. I HATE THIS! Please keep your distance!. Do laws disappear when you (think) are alone on the street? Read the laws and see if they make this exception. This is not the case. It is illegal to install only the lights and be on the public road. You don`t need to use them to break the law.
Blue and red lighthouses are not only illegal in Texas, but also illegal in every other state in the United States and most other countries. Nice comment, but BOTH are illegal on public roads. If you exceed 6000k with your headlights, they start to illuminate a blue color, which would make them illegal. Well, I have a Hummer H3 with a four-row of 52″ spread across the windshield, two multi-colored 8″ strobables on the hood through the wiper blades, a 32″ air dam inside the grille, two more 8″ ambers mounted low at the front center. I don`t use them on the roads when I`m on the move. My favorites are the two 8″ flashlights mounted on both sides of my clutch. The ones I use when I make sure (normal light mode), and full strobe when someone is right behind me with their bright lights. So I operate in accordance with the law and the jagoff behind me (who drives illegally behind me when he drives behind me with his bright lights). By the way, dashcams and rear cameras are very useful here. Before I got the rear-facing strobes, I had built a fantastic tool from a series of vertical blinds – they were silver/reflective and I cut them to fit my rear window and mounted them on the back on a motorized pulley. Press the button and they slide over the back window and behave like a mirror to the fool driving behind me with his bright lights. Completely legal, but very cumbersome to implement and strobes are much more fun.
Blue and red LED lights are not illegal to install or use at an auto show, but due to federal law that prohibits blue and red lights only in emergency vehicles, you may not have these lights on when you`re on a public road. Unfortunately, SAE approval does not necessarily mean that they are DOT approved and homologated for the road. I got them and they are great, but they can still give you a ticket. Well, whether they are legal or not most likely depends on the characteristics of the headlights, for example, whether they are DOT approved or shine with more than 6000k. You are not a “responsible bright bar owner”. Light bars do not project the right beam shape for headlights on public roads. A responsible owner would not drive the vehicle at night until the standard headlights were properly repaired. Swapping one problem for another is not a solution and even if you think you can rationalize, that it is, it is still illegal. Index.
Depends on the state. It is never legal to modify primary headlights, but in some states, light strips and other auxiliary lights are allowed when not in use, but in others they must be covered with blankets when on public roads so that they cannot be used. How many light bars are supplied with the lids? Certainly not most cheap generics. It is not the deer that have the problem. It is the traffic coming in the opposite direction. It`s bad enough on the highway, with two lanes and four lanes, people don`t turn off their lights for oncoming traffic. If people were to drive the speed limits, the need to look further would not be a problem. LED light strips, on the other hand, absolutely dazzle drivers of oncoming vehicles, and if the medians of interstate highways aren`t a quarter mile or wider, they`ll dazzle you. If you want lighting conditions during the day, don`t drive at night. They must remain illegal on the streets. In most cases, these new types of headlights are legal with certain regulations. While there is little enforcement on this issue, it is an easy way to get yourself out of the way and get a ticket.
However, when you reach 12000k, your headlights will turn purple, and whether this is considered legal depends on their brightness and at the discretion of the official. Aftermarket LED headlights are illegal in Texas unless a vehicle comes standard with factory LED headlights. I just bought a new Chevrolet ZR2 and installed a roll bar and a 14,400 lumen lighter. The trader did not mention that they are illegal or can be used in any form. Do I need to cover them, fold them or what? The only way to turn them on or off is to use a key fob. No switch or button on the dashboard. LED light strips are legal in Texas under certain conditions. LED light bars cannot be directed too high in the air, they must not be blue or red, cannot be too bright and cannot be a nuisance to other drivers. If I`m on the street at an auto show AND parked), can I have a red/blue light bar on a Mustang interceptor plugged into a second battery and plug it into a push-button switch? All LED taillights that come ex factory as OEM bearings are legal in the state of Texas. All LED headlights are legal in the state of Texas, with the exception of red and blue. This makes legal any headlight included in your vehicle as an OEM feature.
As for aftermarket lighthouses, they must be approved dot. If you only use show and off-road headlights on public roads, you can get tickets or be towed. If the headlights inside are still white and the ring on the outside that creates the halo effect doesn`t glow blue or red, these types of lights are legal in Texas. My criticism is that so many drivers are very reckless and DO NOT DIM THEIR STANDARD HIGH BEAMS. I`ve been told that a light bar or fog lights are legally mounted under your headlights and are of course not directed higher than your low beams. I think I`m going to ask a traffic patrol officer here in Mississippi, I love them too! ( I even put a 20. Light bar on my Ford Focus 2008) But yes, they dazzle! Here in El Paso, Texas, people are also buying LED headlights! And I don`t like these things to bore me because I still think that everyone has their brightness. There are a handful of manufacturers that produce approved light strips (FMVSS compliant). It will be interesting to see how this affects the people who own these light bars. I have a light bar on my truck and I drive it on secondary roads with little or no street lighting, I love it, the light grids saved me from deer, cows and people who are on the road, yes, they dazzle but I turn it off when I pass or I am a car, I think it is wrong, to make them illegal, maybe illegal, to have a very large one like 50 inches, but a 12 inch will not hurt anyone I was dazzled and flashed my high beam on a vehicle that has a full LED rod on top and on the bumper.