Pet Peeves - What Pisses You Off?
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jeeeep
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well shit, I've been using those silly headlight adjustment screws to aim my headlights after replacing them with those pesky brighter, now I can see the road LED bulbs.
I've also read those things... instructions! that come with those shitty non-aimable LED's on how to rotate them for proper beam alignment.
I'm an asshole, always doing things after many people have said it can't be done...
GP NOIR
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I replaced the halogen lamps in my Wrangler and SWAMBO's Grand Cherokee with LED lamps after watching several YouTube videos on the subject. We didn't get any fancy halos and the headlights are of a rather plain style, but the LED lamps far outperform the OEM halogen lamps as well many of the fancy, high dollar LED headlight systems.
Three important items need to be addressed before installing LED lamps in halogen headlight reflectors. First, make sure the LED lamp is designed to work in a halogen reflector. The LEDs of the lamp need to be arraigned in a certain pattern for best performance. Second, make sure the LED lamp is clocked correctly. If the LED lamp isn't clocked correctly in the reflector, the pattern will be off and impossible to aim. Performance will be poor. Third, make sure the reflector is clocked correctly when installed on the Jeep. Again, it will throw off the pattern. I know from first hand experience about Items 2 & 3.
Whoever the "many people" are that think you can't aim halogen reflectors with LED lamps installed are repeating crap they read without any personal experience. As Abraham Lincoln, 2nd President of the United States so eloquently put it, "Don't believe anything you read on the internet and only half of what you see."
Three important items need to be addressed before installing LED lamps in halogen headlight reflectors. First, make sure the LED lamp is designed to work in a halogen reflector. The LEDs of the lamp need to be arraigned in a certain pattern for best performance. Second, make sure the LED lamp is clocked correctly. If the LED lamp isn't clocked correctly in the reflector, the pattern will be off and impossible to aim. Performance will be poor. Third, make sure the reflector is clocked correctly when installed on the Jeep. Again, it will throw off the pattern. I know from first hand experience about Items 2 & 3.
Whoever the "many people" are that think you can't aim halogen reflectors with LED lamps installed are repeating crap they read without any personal experience. As Abraham Lincoln, 2nd President of the United States so eloquently put it, "Don't believe anything you read on the internet and only half of what you see."
OverlanderJK
Resident Smartass
Costco and lowes both here have it up. Lowes has had it up for a week at least.
WJCO
Meme King
Holy shit. I was teasing my wife the other day about pumpkin shit in Hobby Lobby at the end of August. These stores are getting desperate.
Jsouder53
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That is just ridiculous! I get putting lights up before it snows, but all of this!
All this shit is just nuts!
kevman65
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Happy Festivus!!! Let the drinking begin, errrrr continue.....
pewpew82
Caught the Bug
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People (mostly teens) who walk around a store listening to music on their ear buds while looking at their phone and then, when they almost get hit by your shopping cart as they blindly cross the isle, turn to you and glare... like somehow, you're the douchebag for almost hitting them 
OverlanderJK
Resident Smartass
How about store employees with AirPods in while working. Pretty crazy to me to think store managers allow that.People (mostly teens) who walk around a store listening to music on their ear buds while looking at their phone and then, when they almost get hit by your shopping cart as they blindly cross the isle, turn to you and glare... like somehow, you're the douchebag for almost hitting them
Sadly, these days, I think a lot of management is just happy to have them working at all.
TrailHunter
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People (mostly teens) who walk around a store listening to music on their ear buds while looking at their phone and then, when they almost get hit by your shopping cart as they blindly cross the isle, turn to you and glare... like somehow, you're the douchebag for almost hitting them
LOL - seriously!!
Aceisback
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Absolutely hate what they’ve done to Tehachapi and Mojave. I remember when pretty much the only thing sticking up out of the desert there was a bunch of jet tail fins.
Aceisback
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Fucking Oblivions.Have never heard that term before but I’ll be damned if I haven’t seen thousands of them aimlessly roaming amongst us.
Sometimes you just want to Tazer them to see if they would even react.
HighwayTrout
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That freaking sucks man. Glad they are okay!