Street Glow Is It Legal

EricSchnabel · 06-09-2006, 10:42 PM

I heard if you have street glow and you can not see the light tubes under the car that it is legal to drive around with it on in california. Is this true or not.

Talon69 · 06-09-2006, 10:44 PM

Why do you want that gay ass bullshit anyways? Throw it in the garbage

EricSchnabel · 06-09-2006, 10:47 PM

It is already on my car so is it legal or not. It is all I wan't to now. I can't find any laws on it on the internet.

Thor06 · 06-09-2006, 10:57 PM

Its perfectly fine to have them on while parked, but driving I am pretty sure you cant have any color at all. I have heard that its legal to have whites and/or ambers in some states, but I am about 95% sure that any normal color underbody light (green, blue, red, etc) is illegal in every state. You want to know what I think? Are you modding your car to please the cops or yourself? I'd turn them on when you are just parked and meeting with your friends and I would ride them occasionally when you are out cruising. I know in about two weeks my Talon will be getting purple underbody lights and I will be doing just that.

ez1286 · 06-09-2006, 11:20 PM

Just drive around with them on and find out that way

david-b · 06-10-2006, 12:31 AM

I heard that red and blue are more illegal than the rest. It doesn't make sense, but they say that the red and blue are like emergency vehicles, so that's why. I had greens on for awhile and never got any shit for them. The again, I had the switch nice and close to the steering wheel (right by the CC), so it was easy to turn on and off. I mostly just used them while parked anyways, like for show. It was cool.

I always took them off for the winter though, and I got tired of doing that. So last winter, I took them off, and they gone.

vwracer14 · 06-10-2006, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by ez1286

Just drive around with them on and find out that way

^^^^^^^^^^^im with him

i want to put some on my truck to turn on in parking lots and riding around here but i dont think i would have them on on the highway

EricSchnabel · 06-10-2006, 10:04 AM

Hey I found my answer I was looking for after a few more hours of searching the internet. Check out this website it is completing legal as long as you can not see the tubes from the street. This site below is the law that the cops have to follow.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc25400.htm

nova1313 · 06-10-2006, 11:03 AM

I ahd them on in pa. Def illegal here. I just drove around back roads with them. Pulled over once I apologized and said I didn't realize they were on must have bumped the switch. Cop was fine with it and I have blue.

I didn't take mine off for winter. I didn't have tubes though. I had led tubes from crutchfield.com They worked great. They were solid beams of light coming out no dots or anything. I also put on quick disconnects so if I was ever demanded to take them off for inspection or anything you just unplugged them and leave the switch turned off. They were just zip tied to metal brackets on the bottom.

Enjoy and it does look nice I agree most people however think it's very ricey... But I enjoy them.

defiancy · 06-10-2006, 09:58 PM

WRONG.

If you have underglow in the state of california it is not legal to drive with it on, regardless if you can see the tube or not.

I have a few friends who got caught with underglows on and got a ticket. I live in San Diego.

EricSchnabel · 06-11-2006, 12:04 AM

My brothers friend lives in chico and he has streeg glow and ever time he is pulled over for it he tells them that it is not illegal when he is driving and they look it up in there book and he has never gotton a ticket for it.

gthompson97 · 06-12-2006, 11:08 PM

It's illegal to drive with them on in ANY and EVERY state in the lower 48 states, I don't give a rats ass what the cop says, it's illegal. Most cops don't know the laws so they just tell you what they think, but it is illegal to drive around with them on, regardless of if you can see the bulbs or not. Same thing with those fucking riced out windshield washers.

AbsoluteGTR · 06-13-2006, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by gthompson97

It's illegal to drive with them on in ANY and EVERY state in the lower 48 states, I don't give a rats ass what the cop says, it's illegal. Most cops don't know the laws so they just tell you what they think, but it is illegal to drive around with them on, regardless of if you can see the bulbs or not. Same thing with those fucking riced out windshield washers.

Very True, but it definity varies by state...When i lived in NY, any and every color was illegal, whether it be the underglows or windshield washers.

But here in SC, whether it be underglow or washers, they cant be red or blue (those colors represent emergency vehicles...) Green, orange, etc...is OK. But then again my friend had pink underglows and got pulled over and got a ticket, because according to the dike pig, "they had a hint of red in them".

So just like gthompson said, the cops just tell you what they think is the law and what isnt the law.

defiancy · 06-13-2006, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by AbsoluteGTR

Very True, but it definity varies by state...When i lived in NY, any and every color was illegal, whether it be the underglows or windshield washers.

But here in SC, whether it be underglow or washers, they cant be red or blue (those colors represent emergency vehicles...) Green, orange, etc...is OK. But then again my friend had pink underglows and got pulled over and got a ticket, because according to the dike pig, "they had a hint of red in them".

So just like gthompson said, the cops just tell you what they think is the law and what isnt the law.

Well to my knowledge pink is a hue of red.

AbsoluteGTR · 06-13-2006, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by defiancy

Well to my knowledge pink is a hue of red.

True, but one can still see the difference between pink and red.

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