In recent years, more and more private car owners have converted their headlights into high-watt Xenon bulbs. This market is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan in China, but the traffic police department and the environmental protection department believe that the current xenon lamp market is mixed, and the "xenon lamp" has become a source of mobile "light pollution" in the city. Due to the lack of relevant legal basis, this kind of The governance of transformation still faces multiple obstacles.
Reporter's investigation: half of the car owners' mentality is unqualified
"Super-powerful lamp low-cost promotion", "Xenon lamp 1800-9888 yuan / pair" ... This is a reporter in the South West Ningyuan Lake Road, Baisha Avenue, Jiangsu Nanjing Daming Road and other places in the auto repair, auto parts market, many Promotional advertisements for car repair shops and beauty shops.
Gu Wutong, the owner of a car repair shop on Yuannan Road in Nanning, told reporters that private cars below 150,000 yuan most like to modify the lights. The main reason is that most drivers are novices, and they are not used to shooting from opposite vehicles at night. The "glare", with a sigh of relief to modify the lights. “The more Chinese car buyers are approaching the Spring Festival, the more customers will come to renovate the lights. Yuanhu Road will receive 60-70 customers who come to renovate every day.â€
Feng Huaju, the agent of Osram, the world's leading light source manufacturer, told reporters that the important premise of Xenon lamp renovation is to ensure safe driving. Therefore, reputable car light source manufacturers will not recommend too bright headlights, nor recommend owners to use bulbs with color temperature over 6000K. Headlights. "Too bright lights not only affect the judgment of the driver on the opposite side, but also reduce the reflectivity of the road surface, affecting the driver's judgment on the road surface and causing danger."
Shi Zhenjia, a technical expert of the Traffic Police Corps of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, believes that more than half of the vehicles that converted the headlights into xenon lights could not pass the vehicle inspection. This is mainly because the modification violates the relevant road traffic safety regulations. The technical level of the reformers is mixed.
Industry insiders self-declared "Xenon lights" profiteering industry chain
Nowadays, the most popular Conversionkit is modified to be a xenon lamp. By installing a xenon lamp on a lamp holder for a halogen lamp, the owner of the original halogen lamp can be easily upgraded to a xenon lamp. The lowest price is 3,000 yuan, and the actual cost is less than 200 yuan.
Xia Yuyan, the first operator of the “lighting of the car†on the Baisha Avenue in Nanning, revealed to the reporter the profiteering industry chain:
A pair of headlights is cheaper than 2000-3000 yuan, and expensive is tens of thousands of yuan, but there are very few high-end xenon lamps that truly meet international standards. At present, the Xenon lamp is modified without a lens, and there is no headlight cleaning system. The third can not guarantee that the color temperature of the lamp is within 4300K. Only these items can save more than two-thirds of the cost of xenon lamps. In other words, even if it is an imported xenon lamp, its cost is only 1/3 of the original. If it is a domestically produced xenon lamp, the cost is even lower, usually only 1/4-1/5 of the price. The transformation of xenon lamps is actually a huge profit.
The “cost account†of the production enterprise, the repair shop will naturally not “pass the bottom†to the owner. Who knows that the world famous light source manufacturer Osram vigorously promotes the single-light 4300K ​​xenon lamp, which is completely improved under the premise of ensuring the safety of the other party. The lighting effect of the vehicle; who would think that the lights are too bright will also pose a potential danger to their own driving, who would think that the H4 Xenon bulbs that are difficult to grasp by the gathering are products that are illegally installed in foreign countries.
The cost of the production company plus the freight to the repair outlets, renovation plants and other sales outlets, the price has turned several times. For products with a price tag of 10,000 yuan, the actual cost is at most 2000-3000 yuan. The products of tens of thousands of yuan may have lenses, cleaning systems, and automatic horizontal systems, but these are certainly not original goods. Repair shops and transformation points often interpret “disintegration†and sell these parts after they are dismantled. The profit per component is 100% of the original. The whole price is calculated, and more money is earned.
"The imprisonment order" can't stop the transformation of the wind supervision obstacles to be broken
In response to the traffic hazards caused by the frequent use of xenon lamps in various places, local traffic safety departments have introduced measures to limit the illegal use of xenon lamps. However, many experts generally believe that the current regulatory vacuum is still the biggest problem in regulating this industry of tens of millions of yuan.
Not long ago, the Jiangsu Nanjing Traffic Management Department fully launched the punishment and norms for unauthorized modification of illegal xenon lamps. Once found, in addition to a fine of 200 yuan, it will be dismantled on site. The Nanjing Traffic Police has officially launched the investigation and standardization of vehicles for the illegal transformation of xenon lamps.
Prior to December 2006, the Wuhan Municipal Traffic Management Department announced that the use of xenon lamps at night would be treated as “not using the lights according to regulationsâ€, and the offenders would be fined 50 yuan and deducted 1 point. This is almost the first country in the country to specifically deal with the "Xenon lights".
Wu Qirui, a vehicle lighting design expert, told reporters that according to the German Federal Statistical Office, more than 80% of traffic accidents occur at night or in poor lighting conditions. Insufficient lighting of the headlights is often an important cause of traffic accidents. because. As drivers age, the demand for lighting varies greatly. The 60-year-old driver’s demand for lighting is six times that of a 20-year-old driver.
Wu Qirui made such an estimate for the domestic xenon lamp market: According to 2006, China's auto production and sales of 7 million vehicles, of which 1/10 or 1 million vehicles have entered the headlamp renovation maintenance cycle calculation, even if only half of the vehicles need to replace the xenon lamp, The standard price of each xenon lamp is 4,000 yuan. In 2007 alone, the market share of xenon lamp exceeded 20 million yuan.
Wu Qirui believes that China's "Safety Conditions for Motor Vehicle Operation (GB7258-2004)" only specifies the power, minimum illumination brightness, color and illumination angle, and there is no regulation on the maximum illumination brightness. The vehicle xenon lamp products currently have neither national standards nor industry standards. Even many manufacturing companies do not have corresponding corporate standards. The lack of standards is the main reason for market confusion and low product quality.
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