[Truck Home Original] Car lights, I believe everyone knows their role, providing lighting for our trucks at night. In China, due to regulatory restrictions, vehicle headlights are not allowed to be modified or installed without permission. Therefore, the appearance of truck lights on domestic roads is basically the factory state, while in Europe, trucks with modified headlights can be seen everywhere.
When domestic trucks are modified with headlights, most of them are replaced with brighter bulbs. The shape of the lights has not changed much. Compared with the modification of European trucks with a row of headlights on the roof and a row of headlights on the bumper. Are those modifications of domestic trucks still considered modifications?
●Regulations allow it to be used when necessary
You can often see a row of headlights installed on the roof of European trucks on the Internet. Many people will ask, is it not illegal to make such modifications? At the Le Mans stop of the European Truck Championship some time ago, I had the opportunity to chat with French truck drivers. According to them, vehicle light modification regulations are allowed in Europe and will not be fined.
Although regulations allow the installation of headlights, European truck drivers are still very strict when driving on the road and will not use them all the way. They will only use them in special road conditions such as outdoors and highways. If you are meeting another car or driving in the city, you will turn off the lights in advance to prevent the lights from affecting other people's driving vision.
Take the lights on the roof of this Scania car as an example. The owner installed them at a modification factory. The price of the entire installation is 2,000 euros. If the exchange rate between RMB and euros is 1:7.8, it is about more than 15,000 yuan. RMB, if you are a domestic cardholder, would you spend more than 10,000 yuan to install car lights? In addition, there are regulations for installing car lights. The brightness, illumination angle, and range of the lights will have a certain parameter range, so as not to affect the normal driving of other vehicles.
Most of the modified car lights found in France are German Hella car lights. The diameter of the car lights is relatively large, about 20 centimeters. When all the lights are turned on at night, the brightness is very high. And these car lights, more The time is to use auxiliary lighting when really needed to improve driving safety.
The French truck lover also said that the original lights of current trucks are very bright and can meet the needs of daily use. The lights they installed are only used in special circumstances, such as in forest areas or It is only used on closed highways and other road conditions. Usually it is modified more for the decoration of the vehicle. With the addition of a row of lights, the vehicle's shape will be fuller and cooler.
● They are all modified. Why are the treatments different?
The same goes for car light modifications. Most domestic modifications involve xenon lamps, LED bulbs, and LED strip lights. There are still many Jiefang J6 owners who have replaced the fog lights on the bumper with LED lights. To put it bluntly, when domestic car owners modify their car lights, they will follow one principle, that is, they can modify the car lights with little change in appearance, in order to avoid being punished.
The purpose of modifying car lights is very simple, to increase the brightness of the lights and increase driving safety at night. The starting point is not wrong, but will modification of truck lights in China be resented by many people? The modification of truck lights in Europe is more violent, and a row of lights is directly installed. The lights installed on European trucks are brighter. Why are regulations still allowed? People are not averse to adding lights to trucks either.
Now it seems that how to use the car lights is the key. Although the lights are installed, they should be turned off in time when there is a vehicle driving on the opposite side, so as not to affect the sight of other vehicle drivers, so as not to cause resentment to others.
Although some cars have not been modified with headlights, they still use high beam when driving. If they do not change to low beam, they will still be scorned. In China, many trucks with modified lights are scolded. Now it seems that adding lights is not the problem. How to use them correctly is the key. Domestic regulations prohibit the modification of lights and only set a minimum ethical standard. . (Text/Picture Zhang Lixin)
