HID squirrel spotters removal help

[aznkorboi]

So, I've seen the forums on baking my head lights and removing the headlights and working on it from the inside

but I was wondering if there was any other way to deal with the squirrel spotters. Headlight tint? I like the beam level as it is, but the squirrel spotters are a bit too high.

Any suggestions?

[SteveSolara]

wtf is a squirrel spotter?

[zacman94]

Steve, I stole this off of a Cobalt forum
Its a design feature that causes some of the light from your low beams to go up so you can read signs (which are of course higher than your low beams) or "spot squirrels" in the trees.

Some headlights use the design of the reflector to do this, some (like a projector) add a little "tab" to accomplish the same effect. With the standard halogen bulbs the amount of light sent "up" is enough to read signs but not enough to bother oncoming drivers too much.

Put hid's in the same housing and you have tripled the amount of light, including that which is going "up"....... Big time glare

aznkorboi
I've looked around on this, too. I don't know about headlight tinting, but, as far as I've seen, you're probably going to have to bake the headlights. If I find anything else, I will let you know

[Projex0]

the thing is you can actually bend the flap that inside the shields to close it but it wont be shut fully



if bent down only this is what you'll get


the best way to do this is opening up and taping it with aluminum tape to completely seal it off, but if you already have the headlight apart might as well do a proper HIDretrofit.

[SteveSolara]

This defeats the purpose of have projectors. I think that plate it so it doesnt glare and blind people on the roads. Thats if the modded one is the white light on the left of the last photo.

[Projex0]

no the modded one removes the square light above the cutoff

[SteveSolara]

no the modded one removes the square light above the cutoff

Ahh gotcha. Didnt know which was which

[aznkorboi]

Hey guys,

I found something really funny. Before I had 6000k bulbs, it gave a slight blue tint to the lights. With those in, the squirrel spotter marks were so noticeable.

But now, I switched the bulbs to 5000k and I haven't seen any noticeable squirrel spotter lines. I was just about ready to remove the headlights too.

[NewShockerGuy]

When I did HIDS in my wife's solara I completely blocked the squirrel spotters... You SHOULD do that if you are installing HID's anyways so you don't blind people with the light.

See this is before they were blocked off....



This is partially blocked off.


I will get a picture of them completely blocked off.
Did it exactly as the How To posted above via the pictures.. believe it was on the Camry forums. I noticed them with

Definitely a mod worth doing if doing HIDS.

-Nigel

[crankine3]

It might be something with the bulbs, and the source of the arc in the xenon bulb being thinner?