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CA Taillight Law and new taillights....
    #16506709 - 07/09/12 10:15 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Perhaps someone can help me out here...

My car came stock with smoked out taillights. (2005 VW GLI).
I need to replace them because they are weathered as shit and look like crap

I've never been pulled over for it, but a cop that pulled me over for something else, did ask me once if I tinted them, I told him they came like that stock and he didn't even give me a verbal warning or fix-it ticket or anything.

Anyway I've been looking for replacements, and it seems the OEM smoked taillights are almost impossible to find.
I wanted to find as close to stock as possible.

These are the closest I can find:


However I'm a bit concerned they are a little too smoked and cops might fuck with me (my current ones are faded as shit, they are still smoked but brand new I bet they were quite a bit darker.


CA Law is as follows:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24600.htm
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(e) Taillamps shall be red in color and shall be plainly visible from all distances within 500 feet to the rear except that taillamps on vehicles manufactured after January 1, 1969, shall be plainly visible from all distances within 1,000 feet to the rear.





So it's a bit of a grey area.  They are definitely red, just smoked out, and has the red reflector on bottom.
They look a little dark, but when lit up they are just as bright red as normal lights.
but from what I've heard it's pretty much up to the cop's interpretation.

Current ones look like this:


Anyone with some personal experience in this matter?


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: Shroomism]
    #16506732 - 07/09/12 10:19 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

No, it doesn't matter if the covering is smoked.  If it is red from 500 feet (as in CA law, in my state's laws it was only 250 feet), then you are fine.  It is a grey area, but, until they can prove that they saw "black light" (get it? they can't) then it is completely legal.  All it is says is tail LAMPS, not tail lamp COVERS.


I got T boned this dude who turned in front of me (his fault) and the patrol who came to me said "you're lucky he didn't rear end you, those tail lights are illegal" I asked him to show me where they would fall into the illegal category, and he said "they're black" so I hit my brakes and he didn't bring it up again.  He also didn't cite the guy who turned in front of me because I was being an asshole about my tail lights.

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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: 4-AcO-MET]
    #16506750 - 07/09/12 10:22 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

i got fucked with in ca because my lenses were clear they required amber/reds for tail lights.  Shouldn't have rice'd my fucking cobra out.... :mad2:


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: starfire_xes]
    #16506760 - 07/09/12 10:22 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

For reference purposes here are the current ones:


Like I said they are faded as fuck


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: Shroomism]
    #16506783 - 07/09/12 10:25 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

YUCK.  That is a travesty man.  On a nice VW too.


No offense of course, but those have GOT to go.

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i got fucked with in ca because my lenses were clear they required amber/reds for tail lights.




Were the lamps red, or were you shining white light when you were hitting your brakes?

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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: 4-AcO-MET]
    #16506788 - 07/09/12 10:26 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

I know... lol. That's why I'm getting new ones, they are ugly as fuck


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: Shroomism]
    #16506809 - 07/09/12 10:28 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

you gotta really, really have your shit untogether in california for a cop to be fucking with you cause your tailights arent amber or some shit like that....


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: Shroomism]
    #16506844 - 07/09/12 10:32 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Thats a shitty thing about Ca they are stict as hell on autos as far a keeping them street legal and sniff tests and all that.


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: bangpowboomers]
    #16506858 - 07/09/12 10:35 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

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bangpowboomers said:
Thats a shitty thing about Ca they are stict as hell on autos as far a keeping them street legal and sniff tests and all that.





i found out that as long as my cobra never exceeded about 120 on the interstates, they never fucked with me....


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: starfire_xes]
    #16506887 - 07/09/12 10:39 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

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starfire_xes said:
you gotta really, really have your shit untogether in california for a cop to be fucking with you cause your tailights arent amber or some shit like that....




Yeah, I've been pulled over 4 different times since getting this car
- once for having no tags (when I first got it, DMV sent them and they got lost in the mail, was waiting for replacements)
- once for speeding 25 over
- once cause cop said my front windows were too dark tinted (again, stock). But then he let me off and before he did, he hinted it was legal if you have a prescription from your eye doctor for sensitivity to sunlight.
- once cause one of the rear lights went out (replaced that and prompted me wanting to replace the housings)

every single time was let off without a ticket or anything, verbal warning at worst.
So all my run ins with the cops have been pretty fucking cool, as long as you treat the cop with respect.
But in different areas, they can be bigger dicks. I just want to cover my bases, I don't want to get them and then a month later have to replace them


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: Shroomism]
    #16506919 - 07/09/12 10:43 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Hmmm.. these might be a good alternative:



But they aren't as close to stock :frown:


These just look sick


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: bangpowboomers]
    #16506922 - 07/09/12 10:44 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

They're so broke... They need every dime they can get.

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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: 4-AcO-MET]
    #16506950 - 07/09/12 10:48 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

i got pulled over twice in my cobra, and we ended up talking about how fucking cool the cobra DOHC engine was when tuned correctly (and how it sucked otherwise) i got pulled over once for loud pipes (i had no cats, just straight through long tube headers) 2 times for speeding, and once for 'racing' all 4 times, the cops just 'warned me' about being responsible and shit.


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: starfire_xes]
    #16506960 - 07/09/12 10:49 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah the cops around here are all pretty cool, at least where I am. As long as you aren't a dick to them..
But around where I work, not so much.


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: Shroomism]
    #16506999 - 07/09/12 10:57 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

There isn't much that looks better on silver/grey/black/red/blue/white/yellow/green/pink/purple than some nice tinted taillights and a couple badges removed.

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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: 4-AcO-MET]
    #16507031 - 07/09/12 11:02 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

I like the Jettas.  I used to not like VW but after I drove a Golf GTI that was pretty sick hell I like the Bugs feel really balanced.


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: bangpowboomers]
    #16507048 - 07/09/12 11:06 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

what's not to like about a VW?  A fucking porsche without the fucking overpriced faggotry.:awesomenod:


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: starfire_xes]
    #16507055 - 07/09/12 11:07 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Mine even came with Porsche brakes :lol: Not stock though I don't think, think the guy who had it before me added them. And BBS wheels stock. <3 my GLI


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: Shroomism]
    #16507062 - 07/09/12 11:09 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

people don't realize VW's come with all the good shit of porsche except for the fucking price tag...


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Re: CA Taillight Law and new taillights.... [Re: starfire_xes]
    #16507074 - 07/09/12 11:12 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

It's not too terrible to look at either



I need to get the other sick front bumper/grill/lip though, I had to get that replaced when I first got it cause it was all jacked up, and the fuckers replaced it with the Jetta one :crankey:


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