This came across the this notice from one of our state inspectors this morning:



Question is, can I get away with retros? I CANNOT EVER GO BACK TO HALOGEN!

 

country wide? and i wonder if morimoto retros are compliant with the aforementioned fmvss 108

 

*****

 

can't be nation wide. cause OK doesn't even have inspections anymore.

honestly if you have a clean set of retros, just don't even mention them to the inspector. they may not even notice.

 

you can just say that they are blue bulbs. this will never work.

 

Im going to dig deep into this because like i said i cant go back to halogens. and hids kits are FEDERALLY illegal, inspection or not.

 

im pretty sure IL doesnt have inspections...

 

i'm sure retros are fine, as the real reason you get retros is to conform with those very standards they speak of. its not oem, but the projectors are meant to make a 'cut off line' for the hids...

op, whered you get this? what does it mean to 'fail the vehicle'? like my **** could be impounded if i get pulled over or something?

 

This is why I love living in MN...0 inspections.

 

no like you cant get new tags/plates for your car if it doesnt pass

 

if something fails inspection. it's said to be not street legal and isn't supposed to be driven until what caused the car to fail is fixed.

 

thats my question what about retrofits there original equipment for something right
hids in stock housing are a bad idea anyway

 

This came across through the state inspection computer, one of the inspection techs stuck a copy of it under my headlights earlier haha!

Now another question here is if this will go through police bands, because if cops get this same bulletin it will be hunting season! Otherwise they dont seem to care as long as they are less than 10,000k.

 

hmm ok well i don't think illiinois does 'inspections' as i've never had to go get one in my 6 yrs of driving...

 

cops wont do anything because how do they know if you car came stock with them or not

 

it is a just law... **** i have hids but i've noticed myself getting blinded by other ppl with hids in oem shrouds and it pisses me off! i know i'm pissin people off too..

i'm sure they've seen another cobalt before that DIDN'T have hids

 

yea i dont think we have to worry. we just cant have anything super bright or "blue" lights. so 10k is on the edge. my friends run 10k and 7k and theyre fine

 

just put your stockers in when you go for inspection duh

 

im saying when a cop sees blue lights coming at them are they just gonna get pulled over? haha

and there are white hids.. so how are they gonna be able to tell. this thread is bs

 

If you go to a inspection...you go during the day ...what are they going to say? Turn your ******* lights on so I can see if you have HIDS? Lol don't think so ..

 

fk inspection!

 

inspection shminfection

 

just tint the headlights so they wont be able to tell the difference

 

I'm all for ticketing pnp users. That should be illegal. However I Truley think retrofits or hids in any projector housing should be legal. I think this is aimed more towards pnp users and not the small never of those put there with retrofits, though retrofits are still TECHNICALLY illegal.

Also having oem hids ftw. I can retrofit better projectors and still be fully legal.

 

If I can pass emissions with no cat I can pass inspection with Bi-xenon HID's.