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Old 04-20-2007
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Neons underneath the car legal in Texas?

I inherited a '02 civic from my mom and I've been fixing it up little by little. I want to put some cold cathode lights underneath it to give it a little glow. I was reading that the light up spray nozzles are illegal, so I'm thinking that neons are too. Anyone sure about this?
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Re: Neons underneath the car legal in Texas?

What I am sure about is that that will look terrible and incredibly stereotypically ricey.


But I believe that any lights either red or blue are indeed illegal to have on the outside of the car, required signal lights excepted, of course. The reason for this is that this way people can't put lights behind their grill or something to that effect to look like a undercover police car, get people to move out of the way, etc.
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Re: Neons underneath the car legal in Texas?

^^^Word. If they're not illegal, then they should be.
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Re: Neons underneath the car legal in Texas?

I must say, though, If you're in Texas, I might have to get Joel (SLO REX) and Bryan (texascivic2k1) and Josh (gaugeof12) and come backhand your *** for putting that kind of stuff on a car.
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Re: Neons underneath the car legal in Texas?

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I inherited a '02 civic from my mom and I've been fixing it up little by little. I want to put some cold cathode lights underneath it to give it a little glow. I was reading that the light up spray nozzles are illegal, so I'm thinking that neons are too. Anyone sure about this?
spray nozzle lights aren't legal....under body lights are legal i believe as long as there not on strobe, red or blue or one of them i forget which one and also not visible.
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Re: Neons underneath the car legal in Texas?

Afaik, they aren't illegal. There are exceptions to that though with the above stated reason's. If you can see the bulb though from a standard sitting position inside a car then they would be deemed illegal. As long as you can't see the bulb, and it doesn't go against whats said above you'd be fine.
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Re: Neons underneath the car legal in Texas?

spray nozzle lights can be illegal if its blue or red at night....as for neon under the car..red and blue is illegal and maybe purple because police sometime say its blue..i got tickets for these stuff when in down WPB,fl and soo forth...was on my old old car tho..i dont do those stuff nomore waste of money and pointles
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