Sorry, I wasn't meaning misleading in that way.
Just that blue lights include other colours even if they are muted by the tint.
Chavtastic! Should go well with pikey personal plates like this example of imaginative spacing nicked from the internet
and ensure everyone knows that they're sharing the road with a tasteless idiot that can't even spell his own name after the sun sets and the silly plate is less noticable
For a proper education on bulbs including filters (tinted glass), glare and a bunch more including why pricks that fit HID kits into halogen headlights should be kicked repeatedly in the nuts until they're no longer able to breed start here... http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/bulbs.html The reason why the French were onto something with yellow headlights is covered under 'dangerous, illegal blue bulbs'.
Beaten to it with the daniel stern link but can't be bothered to edit things now
While wattage is the normal one mentioned with regards to legality the ECE regulations mentioned cover a hell of a lot more. Luminous flux/lumens for example which have min / max values and can vary a lot for a given wattage which is what gives the wiggle room for tinted bulbs... run 'em hotter so that after filtering out some of the light they still meet the regs. Bonus is they typically don't last as long so you sell more bulbs. ECE R37 in full... http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs/r037r5e.pdf
Gas discharge/HIDs are covered by ece r98... http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs/R098r3e.pdf
The cynic in me thinks that their marketing department reckons that a significant chunk of those 'not chosen' will choose to buy them so they don't feel left out...
Remember that unless you get the right [cough] 'sale' [/cough] or promo code ECP are a chunk more expensive than their sister company carparts4less...
Isn't it illegal to have blue lights?
Isn't it illegal to have blue lights?
Hi All!
We've been getting great feedback from these - thanks!
We managed to get a few more samples from Philips and have sent these out to more members chosen at random - If you were one of those, you have just recieved a PM from us
Please feel free to leave your feedback in this thread and thanks for joining in!
Pat
Hi Everybody!
We've just taken delivery of samples of the new Philips Color Vision Bulbs & need some trusty forum members to test them out, provide some pictures & details about how they found them!