Headlight lowering Kit??? or solving my problem
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Thats what i was thinking, im in california....... blah more custom work i geuss
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A friend of mine did a custom truck, the floor boards are almost 6.5' off the ground. He built a tall bumper and installed the stock headlights in it. It was an older chevy with square lights which made life a little easier.
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Well i mean ive seen those kits, i just cant stand the way they look... Heres what im thinking... Im gonna mount 2-4 DOt approved lights below my bumper... see if i cant just say i use those as headlights if i have too .
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also true... hmm i gotta look much deeper into this.
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Get you some of those snowplow headlights to mount under your bumper. I'm sure those are DOT approved, and they have turn signals on them already. If your good at fabwork, you could mount them on some actuators or something so they are hidden behind the bumper in the daytime and swing down at night since I know they aren't the most attractive setup.
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Once you lower the headlights, they will get you for frame height being too high. The maximum limit in California is 31" so measure your frame because it looks like it is over that.
I've been through it all with other lifted trucks in California, if the officer wants to get you then he will just keep finding other items to write you up for such as Frame height, mudflaps not big enough, tires sticking out too far past the fender, fog lights too high, tinted windows, and if you comply with all those they try to write you up for an unsafe vehicle!
Sorry to rant and rave, but just double check everything!!!
I've been through it all with other lifted trucks in California, if the officer wants to get you then he will just keep finding other items to write you up for such as Frame height, mudflaps not big enough, tires sticking out too far past the fender, fog lights too high, tinted windows, and if you comply with all those they try to write you up for an unsafe vehicle!
Sorry to rant and rave, but just double check everything!!!
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Once you lower the headlights, they will get you for frame height being too high. The maximum limit in California is 31" so measure your frame because it looks like it is over that.
I've been through it all with other lifted trucks in California, if the officer wants to get you then he will just keep finding other items to write you up for such as Frame height, mudflaps not big enough, tires sticking out too far past the fender, fog lights too high, tinted windows, and if you comply with all those they try to write you up for an unsafe vehicle!
Sorry to rant and rave, but just double check everything!!!
I've been through it all with other lifted trucks in California, if the officer wants to get you then he will just keep finding other items to write you up for such as Frame height, mudflaps not big enough, tires sticking out too far past the fender, fog lights too high, tinted windows, and if you comply with all those they try to write you up for an unsafe vehicle!
Sorry to rant and rave, but just double check everything!!!
Shioat It almost sounds like im better off giving them something to ticket me for so they dont look at other stuff.
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