Complaints on Xenon bulbs

So in light of all the new regulation that the Road Transport Department (RTD) is implementing, HID lights a.k.a. Xenons are illegal First they say all Xenon lights were banned, but after a little ruckus caused by automakers such as BMW and Mercedes, the RTD has once again decided to rephrase their statement by saying that it is only illegal if it has been retrofitted. The argument was to their limited knowledge was that Xenon lights were only meant for projector styled headlamps.

Now, most of the later cars come with projector style headlamps. Don't believe? Take a look at most of the German cars, BMWs, Mercedes, VW and so on, all come with projector styled headlamps. That's because most of the automakers from Germany have taken their automobile lighting to the next step. Even our Proton Waja and Satria Neo has incorporated projector styled headlamps into the car.

Now, with the projector styled headlamps, it only has a single concentrated beam which does not have the glare effect. Now, the Japanese manufactures on the other hand have retrofitted their headlamps using glare shields that we normally find on the H4 halogen bulb. The H4 is the most commonly found bulb and it has both low beam and high beam incorporated in one bulb. If you look closely, only the low beam has the glare shield built into the bulb glass casing. That's the root cause of the complaints on Xenon bulbs, those China made ones did not have the glare shielding.

So, if you take a look at the latest 2.0 Honda Civic, Nissan X-trail and the new Nissan Latio's headlight designs. All these cars do not use projector style headlights. Instead, there is a cover built in front of the bulb. So, the million dollar question now is will the RTD still fault them because of this? It's still being retrofitted, but they're doing in the factory.

This bunch of people have so many issues on their hands and now they are opening a whole new can of worms. Instead, the RTD should be coming up with new regulations to give the accessory workshops a guideline on what bulbs are approved and what are not. I believe those new Xenon bulbs with glare shields should be approved as they are built to be retrofitted into headlights that have no glareshield.

These morons are taking a step backward in the evolution of street lighting. The halogen bulbs are a thing of the past. They are dim, they suck a lot more watts and they really heat up the headlight covers. With the new headlights being built from plastic, the heat causes it to dull and some turn yellow. Won't that be even worst in the long run? Accidents could happen because of the dimly lit roads and with corroding headlights, you can barely see the road. Who are we to blame? The regulatory authories, namely RTD.

The new Xenon gas bulbs light up at a lower heat temperature and produces more illumination. What are the cons in that? With the proper glareshields, there should be no problems with glaring and yes I'd agree those with the 7,500K lights, those should be banned as the whitish blue lighting can be irritating.