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YOUR RESEARCHYellow Headlight Film
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Install last weekend and it really lights up the road
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I had it installed last weekend and it really lights up the road.
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In order to find out if they are street legal check with the whichever dept.
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There are many reasons why race cars use yellow headlight films, but it seems the longer wavelength of the yellow spectrum is supposedly "safer" and potentially more effective for visibility when driving in inclement weather.
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There are many reasons why race cars use yellow headlight films, but it seems the longer wavelength of the yellow spectrum is supposedly "safer" and potentially more effective for visibility when driving in inclement weather.
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I found a place called Headlight Armor and purchased yellow headlight film. It is cut per the year of car and make. I had it installed last weekend and it really lights up the road.
The thought occured to me.....are these street legal in Indiana??? Sure hope so!
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I like the look...call your local motor vehicle location or perhaps the local police station and see if you are legal or not. How much did you pay for the yellow headlight film?
The cost was $60 or $70. I like the look too. Indiana is pretty liberal when it comes to this. I call the local cops to be sure.....so far so good though.
Agreed - I'd be surprised if an Indiana police officer gave you any trouble. I've see a couple of cars with yellow lights in the Fort Wayne area over the last few years. One is a Jag, and the other is a BMW.
I would like to see a couple more pics....
and IMO it would look WAY better with an Amberectomy to your turn signals - but I like the look, do you drive much at night?
Well I ran into a "Indiana Finest" today......asked the question if legal in Indiana and YES is it is.
Ed had asked for some more pics and here they are. The kit required no trimming and is 20 mil thick but does not cover the entire light housing but I'm happy with them. I think they look great on black cars.
Voila!
... I did them in "smoke" too, just for the hell of it
... Yellow or smoked headlights is something I was considering before as well, but in the end I decided against both. The problem with the yellow headlights is that IMHO they only look good on full on "race cars." Evidence:
^You need at LEAST an aerokit & lowering for the yellow to look good, otherwise they just looks oxidized, or like some vandal pissed on your headlights, hahaha.
...As for the smoked, I decided against them because of my car/wheel colors, but they'd look great on your car Ed.
They are great for protecting the lights from rocks. In order to find out if they are street legal check with the whichever dept. does the annual car inspections e.g. DMV. They will know better than the police. In NJ anything covering the headlights are illegal, but the police have never bothered me about them. I remove them prior to the car inspection and reinstall them afterwards. Also, by definition the tinted ones filter the light so be aware that the reduction in brightness may affect your night time driving, even with the brighter HID lights. I have a set from
www.xpel.com
. Thicker than regular clear bra paint film; 40 mil thickness (about 10 sheets of paper).
I've worked in the television/broadcast industry for more than 25 years which involves intensive study of studio lighting and colored filters. These yellow headlight films are nothing more than translucent sheets of dyed polycarbonate film or what we called in the studio as "colored gels". Normally, a colorized film like what's shown in this thread should not affect light output (measured in lumens) very much. The most common in racing is yellow or 600ish nanometers. People claim that colorizing to the yellow spectrum is more pleasing to the eyes than say a bright blueish gel. There are many reasons why race cars use yellow headlight films, but it seems the longer wavelength of the yellow spectrum is supposedly "safer" and potentially more effective for visibility when driving in inclement weather.
But to answer your question about light output... It's a hard question to answer without measuring equipment like a light meter. The light output loss depends on the design of the actual colorized film. In-studio lighting, our gels are numbered depending on color temp. and radiant power or light output for all colors in the spectrum. For example, you may have two colored gels of the same color family, one passes 100 lumens and the other passes 1000 lumens. Another factor to consider is the light output of the actual headlight. Are you using halogen or Xenon bulbs- big difference in light output and color temperature. Halogen type bulbs usually produce around 3200 Kelvin light vs. 6000+ Kelvin of Xenon bulbs. And then again, light output measured in lumens is an additional factor.
That being said, I would expect a lumens drop to be between least 5% - 10%. That's a wild guess.
Thank you B3! That's some interesting background info.
In my case, I'm upgrading my halogens to Retrofit Lab 996 projectors with 4300k bulbs for max lumens.
I love the endurance look of the yellow headlight films, and happy to know it doesn't kill my overall desire to improve the lighting system. I'm also considering installing a set of aux. LEDs under the front license plate (square housing with four cree LED's - yellow cover).
reminds me of growing up in England and crossing over to the mainland on holiday. We would have to paint all the headlights yellow.
I did the high beams on my e30 like that, partly as nostalgia and partly because I like the look.
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