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Message: [QUOTE="sniper_101, post: 286816, member: 697"] You're comparing "smoking people out" to blinding people at night with HID's? You're again swaying this into an unrelated topic. The people being "blinded" by smoke from a d-bag vs. people not being able to see the road thanks to someone with an HID kit in a vehicle with no business having HID's is about a 1:100 ratio. Also the responsible people removing emissions aren't smoking people out, just like the responsible people swapping to HID's are running retro-fit projectors or housings designed for HID's. Your argument is invalid. As for the headlight adjustment, I wasn't picking on lifted vehicles alone; that much was obvious you're just trying to nitpick at a statement. Most of the posts from guys defending HID's (not just on this site) preach "but if you aim them down". As for a bumper being "a foot and a half higher than stock could smack the back of the head of a backseat passenger in a MINI Cooper in an accident and turn a fender bender into a fatality", your point? I could just as easily be driving a 12ft high 130,000lb semi. Not sure what your argument about that is. It wouldn't be "immediately affecting" everyone a person is driving past, unless you're running into everyone with a smaller vehicle... Tires pick up rocks, that's life. Knobby tires or not. Ever driven a gravel road? I've had a passing Camry take care of a windshield on my Sierra, and a stock S10 take out a lens on my bike helmet. Tires picking up rocks has as much in relation to the ignorance as HID's as choose the fish or chicken sandwich. No. You think they're aimed correctly, because you stand in front of your truck at "other car heights" and say "I can handle that". The oncoming person on a 2 lane road in the middle of the night most likely won't agree. If you're going to do it, just fit projectors for crying out loud. You'll not only do the oncoming driver a huge favour (who just might be in a truck a foot and a half higher than stock, or 130,000lb truck you could be blinding), but you'll have FAR better directional light output, and therefore viability. If you had ever rode in a vehicle with proper, true projector mounted and properly aimed HID's, you'll see why people like me, laugh at everyone thinking they have "awesome" light output from a brighter than should be lamp in an incorrect housing. My claimed lack of reading comprehension by you is no match for your lack of ability to maintain a related and informative topic. [/QUOTE]