[NJGTI]

anyone who has these been pulled over for them? just got them on my car and i know they aren't legal because they aren't DOT approved....just wondering if anyone has had a bad experience with this.

 

[HIDGolf]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (NJTDI)

as long as your bulbs are red for tail and brake, amber or red for turn, you should be fine. the cops are more worried about the ricers and neons w/ their blue bulb craze.

 

[98vwgti]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (NJTDI)

i went thru a bunch of "tail phases" i had the stock smoked GTI tails, and I blacked them out ....which I DID get pulled over for one time ... then I got red smoke red hella magic colour tails, and yanked the inner housing that made it flash amber....which in turn made them flash pink (kinda neat)

anyways, I put in red bulbs....like he said, dont worry if u have what he specified

 

[HIDGolf]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (98vwgti)

I have the Hella red/smoke/smoke/red tails here at work, and they flash amber...

im pretty sure they do, oh man, now I have to go check...

 

[HIDGolf]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (HIDGolf)

yeap, the red/smoke/smoke/read golf IV tails have a amber lens for turn behind the smoked lens.

 

[98vwgti]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (HIDGolf)

yeah they do flash amber....the housing inside is a flourescent green, and somehow makes that flash amber....I just took some wire cutters, and other tools and worked a while on clearing it out, then just put in red bulbs....i kinda noticed that the top segment of the tails looked a little 'amber' or 'pin' as opposed to the red lense on the bottom segment, after i took out the housing and put in a red bulb the top looked a bit more red

 

[HIDGolf]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (98vwgti)

ok, now im really confused,

what did you do that for? what did you clean out?

 

[98vwgti]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (HIDGolf)

i just took out the inner plastic housing inside the tails that make it flash amber....then it flashed pink....i put in a red blub....now it flashes red.

 

[HIDGolf]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (98vwgti)

why would you do that? why would you want to make your car look like a ford?

 

[JG]

Re: hella magic colours "smoked" taillights (NJTDI)

I have the red/clear/clear/red and I never had any problems. As it says in other posts, the cops are more concerned about you having amber turn signals, white reverse lights and red brake lights. They are not DOT approved but my car passed inspection at the VW dealer with no hassle for the lights at all. I also have clear corners and nothing was said aboiut them. Just my 2 cents.