I was driving after dark yesterday and I noticed that the pickup truck in front of me had an unusual light I had never seen before. This light was shining down below the body of the vehicle, illuminating the ground it was driving over.
This was not just light spreading out from the headlights or taillights. Nor was it a reflection off the road. For some reason, this truck had a separate set of lights that were directed below the vehicle.
Is there any reason for that? Or was this just a strange affectation? Has anyone else seen this?
Mostly. But these lights were white not green. And they seemed to be more focused than the ones in your picture. They only lit up directly below the vehicle and not out to the sides, front, or back.
Also, I don’t know if they were lighting up the wheel wells. I was following this truck and didn’t see it from the side.
The newer high end media infotainment centers in vehicles has the capabilities to do light shows with interior lighting. Looks like after market bling suppliers are tapping into it to exterior lighting, or it’s a dealer option.
Absolutely. As with a lot of the modifications that get made to cars and trucks, it’s all aftermarket stuff.
Yeah, I’ve seen “underbody” or “ground effect” lighting on tuner cars for years. I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen it as white lights (usually it’s blue, red, green, purple, etc.), but it sounds like ground effects have made a comeback, or whatever.
I have some RGB in my PC (not a lot, not my thing but it came with some) and the color is selectable. I need not pick one color and have it for all time. I can pick almost any color at anytime. I would be surprised if these car effects could not change colors as well to whatever the driver chose at that time. Heck, there are probably numerous effects to choose from that cycle the colors in some disco-way.
I have no doubt of that. The interior lights (dashboard, footwells, lights on the running boards when you open the doors) in my car (a 2012 Mustang) have RGB settings, and one can adjust them to whatever color you like. I am apparently boring, as I’ve had them at the same light blue color for 14 years.
It’s been around for a decade or two. I’m surprised the OP hasn’t seen it before.
For sure it’s more common where car culture is big. Down here in SoFL it’s rare to go out on Fri or Sat night and not see a couple or a few. At least around here it seems to be more for jacked up pickups than for sports cars or tuner cars. But we still have those too.
Until the cheap-ass bearings in their spinner fails and the spinny part gets ejected down the highway at [whatever] mph. A nice e.g. 40mph metal buzz saw just looking for someone or some thing to slice up.
As to underglow …
I’d much rather see 50 cars underglowing than hear one car, truck, or motorcycle with the mufflers cut off, or worse yet, the exhaust systems designed to amplify the noise, not minimize it. Plus all the aftermarket popping and farting every time they back off the throttle.
