Third Brake Light Scanner Set-Up

[trey3.8]

I once saw an auction on Ebay for a 99-04 third taillight, but it had a scanner LED in it, so it looked like KITT from NightRider, when you pumped your brakes. I tried to get it but the auction was pulled? Can anyone get down with that?

[CODY2003]

There is a good reason it was pulled. It's highly illegal to have a sustained flashing light on your car. Now sequencials are ok because they stop after one cycle. but something that flashes like that is illegal. Impersonating an officer of the law and all that jazz.

[trey3.8]

I don't think officers use scanner lights. They use flashers and strobes. I'm talking about a scanner like in KITT that goes back and forth slowly. I think it's a little bit of an exaggeration to think someone is buying something like that to impersonate an officer. :silly: The assessment is alittle harsh.

Anyway, it's a unique mod. Very cool. And if I can find one, I'll pop it right in, or perhaps mount/make one myself. Just like streetglow, you don't drive around with it on all the time, but it's great for my carshows. Perhaps, I can find a kill switch too.

[CODY2003]

I don't think officers use scanner lights. They use flashers and strobes. I'm talking about a scanner like in KITT that goes back and forth slowly. I think it's a little bit of an exaggeration to think someone is buying something like that to impersonate an officer. :silly: The assessment is alittle harsh.

Anyway, it's a unique mod. Very cool. And if I can find one, I'll pop it right in, or perhaps mount/make one myself. Just like streetglow, you don't drive around with it on all the time, but it's great for my carshows. Perhaps, I can find a kill switch too.
I know it's a stretch, but go ask your local officer. It's the same with undercar LED kits that make patterns, and the neons that flash to music. I had a lengthy chat with our police chief about it, and he told me just what I have told you. I wanted to get some red undercar lights myself, but that isn't happening anymore now that red period is outlawed in Tx.

[trey3.8]

Yeah, it all depends where you are too. Maryland can be strict, and a lot of cops like to make unnecessary trouble for people, but where I'm from they are pretty cool with this stuff. For instance, most tint jobs are illegal here. In Maryland, tint needs to be over 35%. I have 20% and never had a problem. I have dual exhausts on a V6 (illegal for all intents and purposes), and have never had a problem. Plus, most cops act like they know the law, but they don't. They're just guessing at it. Because the aftermarket industry emerges so fast with new gadgets and technologies, it would take Sherriff Jim Bob years to catch up. Plus, the legislative nightmare would be a major obstacle as well, and many places don't have "hard and fast" laws down. But I digress. I think running lights under the car are far more of a distraction than a little ole scanner inside the third taillight. But the only way to know for sure is to find out.

[CODY2003]

Yeah, it all depends where you are too. Maryland can be strict, and a lot of cops like to make unnecessary trouble for people, but where I'm from they are pretty cool with this stuff. For instance, most tint jobs are illegal here. In Maryland, tint needs to be over 35%. I have 20% and never had a problem. I have dual exhausts on a V6 (illegal for all intents and purposes), and have never had a problem. Plus, most cops act like they know the law, but they don't. They're just guessing at it. Because the aftermarket industry emerges so fast with new gadgets and technologies, it would take Sherriff Jim Bob years to catch up. Plus, the legislative nightmare would be a major obstacle as well, and many places don't have "hard and fast" laws down. But I digress. I think running lights under the car are far more of a distraction than a little ole scanner inside the third taillight. But the only way to know for sure is to find out.
well good luck to you. I know that down here I barely get away with my taillight tint (Tx, we're the guys with capital punishment so I'm not that shocked :lol: ). sounds like I could be cool though. post up some vids when you get it done. :thumpupn:

[mustangfreak123]

i know somebody who got pulled over for "impersonating" a police officer b/c he had two neon lights about as big around as a pen, like tiny flashlights, mounted on each side of his rearview mirror. he had a strip of tint across the front of his windshield,so that made them really dim from the outside and he still got pulled over :gay:

[storm7127]

It is all BS! It is just a way for them to hold us down!

[storm7127]

Welp, there is a car behind me with lights coming from the bottom it...looks like a cop, I better pull over. Oh wait there is a car in front of me and the brakes look like the night rider car...I should probably pull over because if he is not a cop he is doing a great job impersonating one! Who ever made that law...:fu:

[greedy]

hey guys just fyi, this is not a cop thing its a dot thing (department of transportation), you can look u pthe laws, no vehicle except emergency vehicles are allowed to have any sort of red flashing/strobe lights, no non emergenct vehivles can have red lightson the side or front of their vehicle, and there is a law on candle power, basically the amount of light your lights put out and the total amount of all your lights combined

good luck figuring this out

S5.1.1.6 Instead of the photometric values specified in Table 1 of
SAE Standards J222 December 1970, or J585e September 1977, a parking
lamp or tail lamp, respectively, shall meet the minimum percentage
specified in Figure 1a of the corresponding minimum allowable value
specified in Figure 1b. The maximum candlepower output of a parking lamp
shall not exceed that prescribed in Figure 1b, or of a taillamp, that
prescribed in Figure 1b at H or above. If the sum of the percentages of
the minimum candlepower measured at the test points is not less than
that specified for each group listed in Figure 1c, a parking lamp or
taillamp is not required to meet the minimum photometric value at each
test point specified in SAE Standards J222 or J585e respectively.

this is for rear lamp candle power

now here is how it works, its basically up to the police officers discretion if you are law abiding or not, there are rules about bumper height, candle power, aftermarket accessories, safty and you can see many many more

if you think the knight rider thing is cool thats up to you, but when they impound your car for not being dot approved , and you pay 600 bucks for the towing and impound, that little night rider thing wont look so good.

and by the way in cali chp's are asses, they can stop you and require to drive, or tow you to the nearest high way patrol station just to do an inspection, if you pass the inspection they just let you go, if you dont. depending on the severity of the problem its either a fix it ticket to impound
and nos is illegal in any state due to the flamability of it, and its automatically an impound here

greedy

[Aerosi665]

Nitrious is NOT illegal. It is illegal to have the bottle OPEN when on public roads though.

[trey3.8]

I've never been harrassed for my car. It's unfortunate you live in a state where they are so strict. I'm glad I don't. And let me re-emphasize, if I did do it, I'd do it for the shows only.

[Black Stallion]

In NJ, its illegal for any special lights to be on my car. No Neons, no LEDs, and I even think sequential tail lights would get me pulled over. Not to mention our emitions laws. I can't have L/t's or O/R mid pipes without bombing inspection. I can't stand this state.

Greedy- you need the entire section that came from, it won't make any sence since it refers to previous sections not included in that part. lol.