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Santiago
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Bright headlights issue
I have taken 3 trips in a 2007 silverado and have experinced the same thing each time while driving after dark: south of the border all cars flip
there brights at me even though I don't have them on. Truckers do not, as I assume they are high enough (in elevation, je, je). North of the border
not a single car flashes its brights at me????? Some drivers get upset and just leave theirs on to teach me a lesson, I suppose.
Anybody else notice this?
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BigWooo
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Are you hauling anything in the back? When I put my camper on I always have to adjust the headlights down a bit to avoid that problem.
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Santiago
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No - but this is not the issue - south of the border I get lit up but this stops as soon as I am north???
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bajaguy
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I think they are trying to tell you to adjust ONE of your headlights to shine straight up......or maybe break one of your headlights......to fit in
with the locals
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DENNIS
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Driving at night? Shame on you. These drivers who put on their brights in your eyes and leave them on, are insane. Then nobody can see.
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Bajaboy
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Santiago,
I have noticed the same problem. I normally don't drive with my brights but now do in Baja. As an oncoming car gets closer, I dim my brights and all
is well. I do like Bajaguy's answer, though.
Zac
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Bob and Susan
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same thing happens to me...
truck is higher than those little toyota trucks
dont worry just drive
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Santiago
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My problerm is that I don't have my brights on but the oncoming cars act like I do - but only SOUTH OF THE BORDER. This can't possibly be headlight
adjustment (I have made sure that my headlights are adjusted to spec). This must have something to do with how my lights are perceived. That said -
is there something I can do so as not to pee-off everyone.
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
My problerm is that I don't have my brights on but the oncoming cars act like I do - but only SOUTH OF THE BORDER. This can't possibly be headlight
adjustment (I have made sure that my headlights are adjusted to spec). This must have something to do with how my lights are perceived. That said -
is there something I can do so as not to pee-off everyone. |
Yes,
Like advised many times on this board, DON"T DRIVE AT NIGHT.
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805gregg
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Get some real off road lights and when they turn their brights on for you do the same for them, it will cure them fast.
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Bruce R Leech
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I had that problem when I was pulling my trailer. If you lode your vehicle so that it drops 2 or more inches in the rear your dim lights will point
where your brights used to. I solved it with a lode equalizing hitch.
Bruce R Leech
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Bruce R Leech
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| Quote: | Originally posted by 805gregg
Get some real off road lights and when they turn their brights on for you do the same for them, it will cure them fast. |
If you do this the other car is apt to hit you
Bruce R Leech
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by 805gregg
Get some real off road lights and when they turn their brights on for you do the same for them, it will cure them fast. |
Now that's the ticket.
Should get you both deaded up.
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Skipjack Joe
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In my case it's because the truck has been loaded causeing the back to sag and the low beams shine as high the high beams. They flash their lights to
tell me to switch to low beams and I respond by flashing on the highs. Once they get the picture they go back to low.
I think it's not a problem north of the border because you are now driving on multi lane highways and pretty much illuminating the back of people's
cars. Plus the cars in the opposite lanes have a fairly large barrier between you and them.
The baja highway is small. You meet the other car within a 2 feet of one another. Light direction plays a bigger role under those circumstances.
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Bruce R Leech
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you need to adjust your headlights when you lode up if you are going to drive at night or you are going to clause an accident.
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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shari
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Same thing has happened to us and so thanks alot for the answers...big load=lights shining higher...now I get it....Now, I'd like to adress the big
problem of predominately gringos who drive with their high beams on all the time and don't dim them...I once drove with a guy who had a business
driving people down to whale watch and he never dimmed his lights and when I mentioned that it blinded the oncoming driver who may hit a cow being
blinded for a few seconds.... he gave me a very disturbing answer....something to the effect of....better them than me...bad karma man. Please be
considerate to other drivers..it is a very dangerous highway without gringo selfish idiots driving around with their super duper high beams.
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dccf
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Just a thought, does your new truck have those new high intensity headlights? Could be they are not used to the color or intensity south of the
border. North of the border we are used to the new light and know they are not on high beams. If that's so, just have to wait until they see more of
the new ligfhts.
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BajaBruno
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Santiago, just flash your high beams on for a second and then off to let them know that you really don't have them on. They should get the message
and leave you alone after that.
I have never found driving at night to be a problem, but I am a careful driver and adapt to the circumstances. Having said that, many Mexican drivers
simply drive with their high-beams on and never dim them. In my youth I would become seriously annoyed and agitated--now, I just slow down and pull
as far to the right as I can until they pass.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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Barry A.
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OVER 60 NIGHT DRIVERS
What many young drivers don't realize is that we older folks who may have cataracts coming on are REALLY blinded by intense lights--------and thereby
we are dangerous----------we CAN'T SEE WHEN CONFRONTED BY BRIGHT HEADLIGHTS.
In addition, some of the "cures" for catatacts (inserted lens) and laser surgery to improve sight, actually many times causes us to be light
sensitive, with bright lights causing us to see halos and distorted vision.
What all this means is that if you have your brights on, and fail to dim them for oncoming traffic, you are taking a real risk of being rammed headon
inadvertantly.
(of course all this is ANOTHER case for NOT DRIVING AT NIGHT)
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DENNIS
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I had Lasik on my eyes and it really increased night light sensitivity. They didn't mention that part when they took me 25 hundred bucks. I was
going to go back and b-tch about it but the surgeon went to prison for tax evasion before I had a chance.
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