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Old 08-11-2011 | 02:05 PM
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What color should I get?

Planning on getting some LED Under-body lights and can't decide what color to get..
Old 08-11-2011 | 03:40 PM
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Voted for blue, just seems like it would like "right" coming from under a black HHR.
Old 08-11-2011 | 04:15 PM
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I vote NEITHER!! Neons are finicky to changes in temperature and prone to blowing.

Get an LED kit. You can shift the lights to whatever you want, whenever you want.

http://www.optxbysg.com/

http://www.optxbysg.com/Catalog_3/LE...r-Kit-OPL100MC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7oPD...eature=related
You would have to install them better than the person in this video did.

I HAD this kit on my Cadillac. Looked great.

If you tuck the tubes high and more toward the center of the car and aim them to the ground below the door, it looks great. Some people aim them straight down at the rocker panel and this is wrong. If you mount them a foot or so from the edge of the car, you have less of a risk of debris destroying them or caking them. Also, it produces more of a PILLOW of light effect, versus the gaudy Lego block effect you see on morons cars.

With the Optx kit, you can change the colors, dim them, brighten them, have them flash, chase, marquis, strobe, flash to music bass, and alternate between colors.
Old 08-11-2011 | 04:15 PM
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No vote for "none" ????
Old 08-11-2011 | 04:21 PM
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Blue would be my choice.
Old 08-11-2011 | 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Greybeard999
No vote for "none" ????
Different strokes for different folks.
Old 08-11-2011 | 04:39 PM
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With your law enforcement background you should remember that blue isn't legal and red probably isn't legal,so that leaves green as your default choice.
Old 08-11-2011 | 05:01 PM
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With your law enforcement background you should remember that blue isn't legal and red probably isn't legal,so that leaves green as your default choice.
Blue is legal.
Red is legal.
Flashing blue is NOT legal.
Flashing red is NOT legal.
Alternating between red and blue is ILLEGAL.


ORC: 4513.17 Limit on number of lights.



(A) Whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlights also is equipped with any auxiliary lights or spotlight or any other light on the front thereof projecting a beam of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power, not more than a total of five of any such lights on the front of a vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when the vehicle is upon a highway.

(B) Any lighted light or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle, other than headlights, spotlights, signal lights, or auxiliary driving lights, that projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power, shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle.

(C)(1) Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except as a means for indicating a right or a left turn, or in the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, or overtaking or passing. This prohibition does not apply to emergency vehicles, road service vehicles servicing or towing a disabled vehicle, traffic line stripers, snow plows, rural mail delivery vehicles, vehicles as provided in section 4513.182 of the Revised Code, department of transportation maintenance vehicles, funeral hearses, funeral escort vehicles, and similar equipment operated by the department or local authorities, which shall be equipped with and display, when used on a street or highway for the special purpose necessitating such lights, a flashing, oscillating, or rotating amber light, but shall not display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating light of any other color, nor to vehicles or machinery permitted by section 4513.11 of the Revised Code to have a flashing red light.

(2) When used on a street or highway, farm machinery and vehicles escorting farm machinery may be equipped with and display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating amber light, and the prohibition contained in division (C)(1) of this section does not apply to such machinery or vehicles. Farm machinery also may display the lights described in section 4513.11 of the Revised Code.

(D) Except a person operating a public safety vehicle, as defined in division
(E) of section 4511.01 of the Revised Code, or a school bus, no person shall operate, move, or park upon, or permit to stand within the right-of-way of any public street or highway any vehicle or equipment that is equipped with and displaying a flashing red or a flashing combination red and white light, or an oscillating or rotating red light, or a combination red and white oscillating or rotating light; and except a public law enforcement officer, or other person sworn to enforce the criminal and traffic laws of the state, operating a public safety vehicle when on duty, no person shall operate, move, or park upon, or permit to stand within the right-of-way of any street or highway any vehicle or equipment that is equipped with, or upon which is mounted, and displaying a flashing blue or a flashing combination blue and white light, or an oscillating or rotating blue light, or a combination blue and white oscillating or rotating light.


(E) This section does not prohibit the use of warning lights required by law or the simultaneous flashing of turn signals on disabled vehicles or on vehicles being operated in unfavorable atmospheric conditions in order to enhance their visibility. This section also does not prohibit the simultaneous flashing of turn signals or warning lights either on farm machinery or vehicles escorting farm machinery, when used on a street or highway.

(F) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

Amended by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, § 101.01, eff. 10/16/2009.

Effective Date: 01-01-2004
Old 08-11-2011 | 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by nacademus
I vote NEITHER!! Neons are finicky to changes in temperature and prone to blowing.

Get an LED kit. You can shift the lights to whatever you want, whenever you want.

http://www.optxbysg.com/

http://www.optxbysg.com/Catalog_3/LE...r-Kit-OPL100MC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7oPD...eature=related
You would have to install them better than the person in this video did.

I HAD this kit on my Cadillac. Looked great.

If you tuck the tubes high and more toward the center of the car and aim them to the ground below the door, it looks great. Some people aim them straight down at the rocker panel and this is wrong. If you mount them a foot or so from the edge of the car, you have less of a risk of debris destroying them or caking them. Also, it produces more of a PILLOW of light effect, versus the gaudy Lego block effect you see on morons cars.

With the Optx kit, you can change the colors, dim them, brighten them, have them flash, chase, marquis, strobe, flash to music bass, and alternate between colors.
Sir, if you would kindly take notice. I did say I was going to get an LED set..
Old 08-11-2011 | 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by nacademus
Blue is legal.
Red is legal.
Flashing blue is NOT legal.
Flashing red is NOT legal.
Alternating between red and blue is ILLEGAL.


ORC: 4513.17 Limit on number of lights.



(A) Whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlights also is equipped with any auxiliary lights or spotlight or any other light on the front thereof projecting a beam of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power, not more than a total of five of any such lights on the front of a vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when the vehicle is upon a highway.

(B) Any lighted light or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle, other than headlights, spotlights, signal lights, or auxiliary driving lights, that projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power, shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle.

(C)(1) Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except as a means for indicating a right or a left turn, or in the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, or overtaking or passing. This prohibition does not apply to emergency vehicles, road service vehicles servicing or towing a disabled vehicle, traffic line stripers, snow plows, rural mail delivery vehicles, vehicles as provided in section 4513.182 of the Revised Code, department of transportation maintenance vehicles, funeral hearses, funeral escort vehicles, and similar equipment operated by the department or local authorities, which shall be equipped with and display, when used on a street or highway for the special purpose necessitating such lights, a flashing, oscillating, or rotating amber light, but shall not display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating light of any other color, nor to vehicles or machinery permitted by section 4513.11 of the Revised Code to have a flashing red light.

(2) When used on a street or highway, farm machinery and vehicles escorting farm machinery may be equipped with and display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating amber light, and the prohibition contained in division (C)(1) of this section does not apply to such machinery or vehicles. Farm machinery also may display the lights described in section 4513.11 of the Revised Code.

(D) Except a person operating a public safety vehicle, as defined in division
(E) of section 4511.01 of the Revised Code, or a school bus, no person shall operate, move, or park upon, or permit to stand within the right-of-way of any public street or highway any vehicle or equipment that is equipped with and displaying a flashing red or a flashing combination red and white light, or an oscillating or rotating red light, or a combination red and white oscillating or rotating light; and except a public law enforcement officer, or other person sworn to enforce the criminal and traffic laws of the state, operating a public safety vehicle when on duty, no person shall operate, move, or park upon, or permit to stand within the right-of-way of any street or highway any vehicle or equipment that is equipped with, or upon which is mounted, and displaying a flashing blue or a flashing combination blue and white light, or an oscillating or rotating blue light, or a combination blue and white oscillating or rotating light.


(E) This section does not prohibit the use of warning lights required by law or the simultaneous flashing of turn signals on disabled vehicles or on vehicles being operated in unfavorable atmospheric conditions in order to enhance their visibility. This section also does not prohibit the simultaneous flashing of turn signals or warning lights either on farm machinery or vehicles escorting farm machinery, when used on a street or highway.

(F) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

Amended by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, § 101.01, eff. 10/16/2009.

Effective Date: 01-01-2004
So what you are saying is, I can run under-body lights so long as they are not flashing?



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