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The plague continues (thelemmy.club)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tenforward/p/1493398/the-plague-continues

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[–] 1 point 1 day ago* (5 children)

can we please stop acting like the way the light is produced somehow magically makes it worse?
It's the fact that the lamps are ILLEGAL AFTERMARKET MODIFICATIONS that makes them bad. You should not be able to walk into a gas station and buy things that are ILLEGAL to put in your car.
There are plenty of people driving around with LED lights in their cars, you just don't think about it because they meet the legal specifications and thus look identical.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I doubt this is as much of an issue in Europe, but here in the States the headlights of the average pavement princess (large truck that hasn't ever seen a day of work) shines directly into the rearview mirror of a regular height car. Nothing aftermarket at all, just stupidly large vehicles being a nuisance.

    I still prefer halogen bulbs because they're so inexpensive to replace, while if your LED goes bad it's gonna be expensive costly.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    i see no actual reason why LED lamps should still be more expensive than halogen, that just sounds like companies fleecing you

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Because with LED any issue requires a new lamp, the whole thing. With halogen bulbs you can simply replace the bulb or malfunctioning piece and it'll cost significantly less. Had a clip break on an LED and the only fix was a whole new assembly.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    We bought a 2024 volvo recently and it comes with LED headlights. They are hilariously accurate with their beam pattern. Bright as fuck everywhere except the oncoming lane, it almost looks like a defect when driving on an empty road.

    European cars with LED headlights are fine because they have to actually prove to their government they pass headlight standards. In the US the manufacturer only has to say they did the regulation. European cars mostly chose to only make European approved headlights.

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