...certain luxury cars...

Umm, no. The reason some cars are "allowed" to run HID systems, is because they are HID systems - not bulbs that emulate the look of an HID system. Your xenon HID bulbs are NOT the same thing as a true HID system. Do a little searching to find what a true HID system is.

The reason you might get ticketed is because a) you have more than the 45/65 watt bulb.
b) you have a cheap bulb with a blue filter. Most states have laws that state you can't run anything that blocks some of the light. Most of the cheap blue bulbs do that.

TimR

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