02-26-2007, 06:42 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tasmania, Australia
Posts: 64
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Originally Posted by beatle_bayly
I think you'll find that legally in Australia, spotlights must be switchable separately from high beam. I guess it's easy to talk the rego guy around that the inner lights are factory, but if he's smart, and you have big wattage bulbs or sealed beams in the inners, he might take some convincing.
I like to turn the spots off when I'm driving in higher traffic areas as it makes for less of a 'cut' when you go to low beam.. On lonelier roads, particularly where roadkill is a risk, I then use the spots.
If you modify the lights to give high and low beam on the outer lights, and make the inners high output spots, then a switch is a good idea. In the 4X4 world, if your covers aren't melting with your spots turned on, then your spots aren't big enough  |
 ) and I replaced the headlights with Hella inserts, including their ‘long range high beam kit’ http://db.hella.com.au/cgi-bin/catal...ew&flmaint=829 , I just left them so that they came on whenever high beam was selected. They were still the best headlights that I’ve used, and the only ones where I haven’t needed or wished for extra driving lights. I didn’t use them much around town, but wherever high beam was needed, they were great. The low beam inserts were good enough that you weren’t plunged into near darkness when going back to low beam. I’m pretty sure that they were the stock 55W H1 bulbs in the long range headlight kit, so they were entirely legal – I don’t think that I ever felt the need to upgrade them to 100W bulbs.
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