NorCal (Bay Area) OFF-TOPIC Chat Thread

[Clipdat]

But they need the extra lumens for all the offroading they do.

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

Lifted trucks with (cheap 10000k) HIDs in headlights AND fog lights. Light scatters everywhere but the road.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

Lifted trucks with (cheap 10000k) HIDs in headlights AND fog lights. Light scatters everywhere but the road.

My least favorite is pretty much any "luxury" brand sucks, Mercedes, Audi, Tesla, BMW, the SUV's surely nail you a bit more, but even a Model S or A5/S5 or 5 series is just misery.

Truck/SUV's get my side view mirrors too, at this point I just slow way the fuck down until they pass me and save a few teaspoons of gas.

[Clipdat]

@spike021 I found a perfect inexpensive exhaust for you: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122334

[spike021]

Well, I'm stupid. Mine has the manual plastic thing at the bottom. I swear I'd looked for it before but I guess I'm blind as a bat on that one.

The car from the example I mentioned earlier was an SUV, but its lights were the regular old kind of lamps, not LED/HID.

Originally Posted by strat61caster

wat

the mirror can dim, you push the little plastic bit sticking out the bottom, it's been that way for like 40 years, I thought it was required.

Also you'll be surprised, some of the most blinding headlights these days are OEM units on regular lo-beams but the race for brightness says 'fuck you driver who isn't in a high up vehicle'

That's why I specifically bought an FR-S without HID/LED/bullshit.

Edit:

Originally Posted by FirstWinter

If you don't have the auto dim headlight, you can pull the tab on the bottom. Just remember to put it back after otherwise during the day it's all wonky.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

@spike021 I found a perfect inexpensive exhaust for you: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122334

Hah.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

But they need the extra lumens for all the offroading they do.

I wonder if the squeaky clean bro truck owners even know that the bluer the light, the less lumens they'll have. LOL

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

My least favorite is pretty much any "luxury" brand sucks, Mercedes, Audi, Tesla, BMW, the SUV's surely nail you a bit more, but even a Model S or A5/S5 or 5 series is just misery.

Truck/SUV's get my side view mirrors too, at this point I just slow way the fuck down until they pass me and save a few teaspoons of gas.

Maybe it's the way that I adjust my mirrors, but the only cars aside from the bro trucks that get me are all the Hondas driving around with their high beams on.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

Maybe it's the way that I adjust my mirrors, but the only cars aside from the bro trucks that get me are all the Hondas driving around with their high beams on.

I think it really depends on how much nighttime driving you do as to how much of a problem you perceive it to be. A half hour here and there nbd, might have a jerk two or three times per week.

I used to spend ~3 hours on the road after dark every week or other week, an hour and a half one way up 680 > 80 to Sacramento then back for about two years. You pick out trends once the flight path is on autopilot so to speak. The number of shittily modified cars never outweighed the OEM cars blasting my retinas. Even here with boatloads of money, 'luxury' cars are not common, despite how many you notice on your commute they're still the minority.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

I get off work at 1:30am and drive 1h15m home. Lol

[spike021]

Currently waiting in line at Target for an SNES Classic.

[FirstWinter]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

I get off work at 1:30am and drive 1h15m home. Lol

At least there's no traffic lol

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

I get off work at 1:30am and drive 1h15m home. Lol

Ah, exactly what I started doing, if you leave later there's less traffic!

Went from leaving at 7-8 and started leaving at 10-11, helps a ton.

I still maintain that modified cars are less problematic than OEM's creating their own headlight war.

[Clipdat]

Waste of time and money, imo.

Originally Posted by spike021

Currently waiting in line at Target for an SNES Classic.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Waste of time and money, imo.

I mean, people buy tons of beer each week to drink and that's disposable. What's 80 bucks for entertainment that lasts at least a couple years?