Am I wrong to assume that car and motorcycle headlight and turn signals are also exempt from this or are those banned as well? Can’t seem to find any specific wording on this, but I would think they fall under “specialty bulbs”.
Judging by the exemption list, the ban is basically just for regular household lightbulbs. Headlights are halogens, not incandescent, and the rest are speciality bulbs - though if it’s legal, swapping all of those to LEDs is a pretty good upgrade.
You’re right most are halogen, but not all. I just replaced a couple incandescent turn signal bulbs on my 2011 Honda bike, so I was wondering if I should stock up while I still have a chance or not. Doesn’t look like it’s gonna be necessary.
Stock up for what? Even if they were banned, there would be LED replacements available, I’m sure. Usually parts like that have enough compatibility between models to make it worth a production run.
Maybe there will be maybe there won’t and maybe they look different enough that some people might want to buy a couple extra bulbs to make sure that I have working lights the next time they burn out.
There are sometimes aesthetic reasons why not everybody wants to switch over to LED lights. If there are LED substitutes that are relatively close to the original warm color, that’s fine, but I have to go looking for them or I can just buy a couple pairs of the standard incandescent lights and be set for probably the lifetime of the bike.
Either way, looks like this is unnecessary, but I hope you understand. LEDs aren’t always the solution.
Am I wrong to assume that car and motorcycle headlight and turn signals are also exempt from this or are those banned as well? Can’t seem to find any specific wording on this, but I would think they fall under “specialty bulbs”.
Judging by the exemption list, the ban is basically just for regular household lightbulbs. Headlights are halogens, not incandescent, and the rest are speciality bulbs - though if it’s legal, swapping all of those to LEDs is a pretty good upgrade.
You’re right most are halogen, but not all. I just replaced a couple incandescent turn signal bulbs on my 2011 Honda bike, so I was wondering if I should stock up while I still have a chance or not. Doesn’t look like it’s gonna be necessary.
Stock up for what? Even if they were banned, there would be LED replacements available, I’m sure. Usually parts like that have enough compatibility between models to make it worth a production run.
Maybe there will be maybe there won’t and maybe they look different enough that some people might want to buy a couple extra bulbs to make sure that I have working lights the next time they burn out.
There are sometimes aesthetic reasons why not everybody wants to switch over to LED lights. If there are LED substitutes that are relatively close to the original warm color, that’s fine, but I have to go looking for them or I can just buy a couple pairs of the standard incandescent lights and be set for probably the lifetime of the bike.
Either way, looks like this is unnecessary, but I hope you understand. LEDs aren’t always the solution.
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Headlight and taillights would have to be exempt.