I got frustrated with people hitting me with high beams in my low-slung Honda Accord and worried about all of the organ donors around here driving flat-out at night on supercubs with no lights, so I brought a Xenon high beam conversion kit I found on Ebay back with me to the D.R. a month ago. It was only a few hundred pesos to have them installed. My gf thought I was crazy to be putting new lights (I changed out the sun-damaged plastic headlights too) and good tires on a car that I planned to sell shortly. I tried to explain in my bad Spanish that I sold a car once when I was a feckless teenager that I knew had problems and I've never forgotten it.
Anyway, last Saturday evening, after I got lost and stuck in whatever that heinous parking lot for guaguas and pushcarts is under the freeway in Santo Domingo for close to 90 minutes, I found myself breaking all of my rules and driving back to the North Coast in a torrential storm after the sun went down. Somewhere along the way, during a brief internal when the rain let up, I came up very fast on a parked truck on a bridge in my lane with no visible tail lights at around sixty miles per hour. The tall stack of white bags of what I'm guessing was rice stood out brilliantly in the total darkness in my high beams and I was able to stop in time.
My Xenon conversion high beam kit was the best $35 investment I've ever made. Everyone should get them for whatever they drive if they ever plan to drive at night in this country, and even if they don't.
Stay safe!
Anyway, last Saturday evening, after I got lost and stuck in whatever that heinous parking lot for guaguas and pushcarts is under the freeway in Santo Domingo for close to 90 minutes, I found myself breaking all of my rules and driving back to the North Coast in a torrential storm after the sun went down. Somewhere along the way, during a brief internal when the rain let up, I came up very fast on a parked truck on a bridge in my lane with no visible tail lights at around sixty miles per hour. The tall stack of white bags of what I'm guessing was rice stood out brilliantly in the total darkness in my high beams and I was able to stop in time.
My Xenon conversion high beam kit was the best $35 investment I've ever made. Everyone should get them for whatever they drive if they ever plan to drive at night in this country, and even if they don't.
Stay safe!