Light Up Your Car

If you want to make your car look every bit as impressive during the night as it looks during the daytime, you´ll need some car lights that illuminate your vehicle in the dark. Otherwise, your vehicle will blend in with the road, with only its headlights and tail lights visible from more than a few feet away. In this article, we´ll cover several lighting upgrades a driver can pursue to improve the visual aesthetics of his/her car´s lighting system, so that there´s never any doubt about what works, what doesn´t, and what you should aim for in your car lighting upgrade project.

Accent, Don´t Overwhelm

An essential thing to remember about your vehicle is that it´s not a battery with an endless power supply. If you install too many novelty lights and power-hungry lighting components, you can drain your vehicle´s battery without even doing much driving. Focus your car´s lighting upgrades on areas that are most likely to improve upon a weak area. For example, those drivers who want to create a cool, flashy look for their cars will often use undercar LED neon lights that illuminate against the surface of the road. They may not give the whole car lighting coverage, but they certainly are hard to miss on the open road in the dark.

Color Counts

Just because you grew up in a house filled with incandescent bulbs and you´re used to one lighting color doesn´t mean that you have to settle for generic light colors on your car. Both HID and LED technology can enable you to alter the color of your car´s novelty lighting as well as its headlights and tail lights, so long as the color adjustments are legal and not distracting to other drivers on the road. HIDs, for instance, can range in color from purples and blues all the way down to yellows and whites.

Include Some Surprises

There´s no better prank than pulling up in a friend´s driveway and scaring him or her by turning on some flashing, novelty police strobe lights. Though you can´t use them on the road, they´re surely brilliant for a laugh, and other car enthusiasts and visitors to car shows will likely appreciate the effort. There are plenty of novelty lights you can use, from undercar neons to interior lighting strips, so don´t feel limited to the basic lighting components traditionally included in a car if you want to use more.

published: 08/09/2011