I checked DMV's website and couldn't find an answer for this.

Can you use the lightbar lights for regular on-road use or are they restricted to off-road use only?

 

not sure what you mean by lightbar. depends on your state and what color they are. we talking like amber lightbars for snow plowing or what?

 

White lights for regular driving, the HID kits that I trust aren't much less than buying a Bumper Lightbar and some Hella or PIAA lamps. These 06 headlights suck, my 02 lights are so much better.

I was thinking of getting the lightbar and installing 2 white driving style lamps on the outer edges and 2 white fog style lamps in the middle.

 

 

I was just thinking how much my 02 lights suck Im guessing that you could use these lights so long as they are angled low enough as to not be shining in peoples eyes like high beams but I dont know for sure. I had them on my old truck and used them all the time for highway driving

 

I know that pretty much everywheres I have ever been that you cant drive legally with drving light (lights without any patterns in the glass or a deflector sheild (like our headlights) uncovered. I know that here in Alberta that if the law wants to get all grouchy about things that they can give you a ticked and make you point them in a direction that wont go down the road. I havent had that happen to me, but I dont antagonize the police, I had a friend that he made them mad and they, quite forcefully, moved his lights so they were pointing straight up,, which wasnt the way they were designed to be pointed

Kevin

 

Yeah by me same thing you cant drive with them in-fact I have heard of a few people getting yelled at for them not being covered?? I think the law is any light that is going to be used for dring has to be at opposite ends of the front end or a minimum distance between them. I'd say give state partol or sheriff dept. a call and ask them since they would more than likely be the ones to hassle you.

 

I like that one. Can't say I've ever seen it happen before.

 

Okay I finally found this, what's your take? It seems like you can't have more than 4 headlights or 4 fog lights lighted at once, am I reading this right? I want to be able to run my headlights and driving lights and when encountering fog can I also turn on my factory fogs and auxiliary fogs in addition to the others. It would be 4 fogs, 2 driving lamps, 2 headlights when foggy.

Or is it a maximum of any combo adding to a total of 4 individual lights?

 

Sounds like you cant have hid's either, #6 depicts that

Kevin

 

Section 25258 has to do with repetitive discharge as in flashing lights to control traffic. Whew!

 

Well, up here in New Hampshire if you have off road lights weather they be on a roof mounted bar or front mount they MUST have covers on when on the road! No exceptions! But that's here!

 

OK then I didnt sound crazy when I said I had a few friends get in trouble that theirs werent covered up...

OK how im taking that it seems like you wuld be able to have a light bar on the front (like the one pictured above) and have ALL of those lights on as long as the headlights or foglights werent on?

 

You'll have to call for your local laws but for us it's;

no clear lens facing forward, must be diffused type

there is a maximum wattage, so even if your diffused you can't have 100w bulbs, I want to say the max is 65w but not sure

must be covered when on any public road

i'm also pretty sure there is something about even having factory fogs and hi's on at the same time.

That's all the main points that I can think of. In really foggy conditions more light isn't always the answer anyways, especially a driving style lens mounted up high on a lightbar on our trucks. You'll get crazy glare. The idea with fogs is to keep 'em low so they light the road under the fog not just reflect back in your eyes. That's why sometimes in fog or snow lows are the best. All that being said I say run what you want but be responsible, all my lights run through the factory hi beam switch so it's just one switch when you see some other lights approaching. I've been hasseled by the police for all kinds of goofy little things over the years and every truck I've owned has had some lights and none have said a thing. Heck I even got pulled over and fined once for having a 2" trailer ball mounted in the factory hole in the bumper on my S-10, the officer said it obscured part of the 8 and he couldn't tell if it was an 8 or a 3. Didn't say a thing about the uncovered 165w Daylighters perched out front. Anyways a little off topic, now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

I may just be lucky, but I've been driving mine like this through many states with no issues (or full covers). I also had a single set on my previous truck. However, I don't run on public roads with them on either.