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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 12:42 PM
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I tinted my headlights and now i wonder if they are too dark?
 
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 12:42 PM
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I love the look but im wondering if driving at night is going to be a pain.
 
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 12:46 PM
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they'll probably be way too dark at night, do you have stock headlights?

they look sweet tho
 
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 12:49 PM
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so far yeah it sucks lastnite i couldnt really tell they was on. Im thinking if i got an HID conversion kit will it do better with that tint or do i gotta take off that tint and buy headlight covers
 
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 12:53 PM
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I had Dark headlight covers once: they were fine for car shows...But, realistically....they were a hinderance at night....regardless of what headlight kit i had...

Just some FYI...

My front windshield is slightly tinted with the eyebrow...(knocks down on comeing glare)
 
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 12:56 PM
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Tinting the headlights is a bad idea unless you only drive in the daytime. I would get the headlight covers so you can take them off at night.
 
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 01:18 PM
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If your gonna tint headlights its best to do a very light tint
 
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 01:22 PM
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I have HID's in fogs and headlights and I rarely ever remove my headlight covers... My fogs are super bright and good enough for in town night driving even. But I almost never drive at out of town at night. If I do have to drive out of town and it's dark I take the covers off though.

They look awesome tinted on black Montes though

Headlight covers are in my signature pic and you can tell they're still pretty bright
 
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by STUMPMI
I had Dark headlight covers once: they were fine for car shows...But, realistically....they were a hinderance at night....regardless of what headlight kit i had...

Just some FYI...

My front windshield is slightly tinted with the eyebrow...(knocks down on comeing glare)
That eyebrow won't decrease any vision related to light at night tho, you just can't see as well towards the top of the windshield

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so far yeah it sucks lastnite i couldnt really tell they was on. Im thinking if i got an HID conversion kit will it do better with that tint or do i gotta take off that tint and buy headlight covers
HID kits really won't help that much with how dark they are, especially if you could barely tell the original ones were even on

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If your gonna tint headlights its best to do a very light tint
or just ditch the tint completely and get black housed headlights and an HID kit lol
 
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 01:30 PM
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Lol thats what i got hids & black headlights, i might get another set & smoke em a lil
 



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