Reply to "Low rise headlights, Vader, Hella or something alike"

Hi all,

I did a bit more research on the HID issue and found out there are several reasons whey the conversions light installed into other DOT housing are illegal---not the regular HID assemblies. One of the big reasons is that cheep conversions do not have safety provision installed in case of a crash so if the light is ruptured and igniter keeps trying to start it with the 85,000 volts needed. So say your nose down in a ditch at night trapped with a full tank of fuel leaking down all over the car. The power is still on and the light switch is broken in the on position. Your headlight bucket was ripped out and your staring at the remains of a broken HID bulb trying to re-start---re-start---re-start as the gas finally gets to the front of the car. Not good! There are more reasons I just thought this one was the most dramatic.

Hella makes a lot of HID for other manufactures. Again let me assure you if you have never driven a Pantera with any one of the three 90mm conversions available, Vader, the light produced is far superior to any standard full size bulbs available.

Last I would like to apologize for my Sunday night posting. I was busy with family grandson issues all last week and was not on line. Two friends contacted me about something that was posted earlier appearing to be a direct attack on me personally but ended up being a type-O in a poor sentence. Since I may be the king of type-Os, bad spelling (thank you for spell-check) and sentence construction often appearing to be built with Legos, I understand how this can happen. Anyway, my posting was edited by George and I thanked him by PM Monday. My original posting addressed each of the issues that appeared to be personal attacks, so I was kicking the word ass of the type-O and embarrassed myself in the process. Lesson learned was if you see an issue that appears to be a personal attack, PM the poster. Not rocket science I know but somehow this simple approach got lost in my pride and for that I am very sorry to those who read the un-edited version and to Scott Bell for my typing before thinking retort.

It will not happen again!

Thank you all for your support and love a great car we all admire, the Pantera.

Kirk