Gcat007 said:
I thought it was just the rear tail lights since not all
vehicles come with the rear side markers? I'll check with a policeman to
make sure.
That's why I gave a link to the actual Washington state law about it...
"I don't write 'em, I jus' read 'em!"
Reasonably new vehicles that do not have separate rear side markers have
their rear lights set up with reflectors facing the sides... in any case, new
cars have front and rear side markers either included as part of the
parking/turn/brake lights, or if the styling does not allow them to be seen
well enough to meet federal requirements, they have additional side
reflectors.
(Notice in that very same set of laws I linked to that the front side markers -
those in the turn/parking light on the xB - are REQUIRED to be there an
required to be amber... That's why the US model has those big bulges on the
side of the headlight lens with amber reflectors in them aand the JDM model
doesn't - it's a US legal requirement.)
Again, "clearing" the front and rear reflectors to other than amber/red
doesn't mean you will get stopped for them, but it does mean that if you DO
get stopped for something it gives the officer a freebie "gotcha!"
(And if someone nails you from the side at night, and you have screwed with
the reflectors, making them non-legal, you just may be at fault should
someone be smart enough to notice...)
These are, after all, federal SAFETY standards...
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/FMVSS/index.html#SN108
Tom
P.S. Making your car more difficult for others to see is, uh, "stoopid."
