# HID's **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [January 15, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hids/112452 "2008-01-15T02:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 54
**Author:** ![izzy\_domain](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/izzy_domain/32/5583_2.png) [@izzy\_domain](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/izzy_domain)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hids/112452/54 "2008-01-16T19:25:29Z")
> [@8/6 ROCHESTER Sunday Meet](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/8-6-rochester-sunday-meet/15188/54): > > HIDs are largely a status symbol. When done wrong, they award you the status of ricer. That’s why people bother to do the fancy retrofits and everything, so that other people think they have a nice car. When I see someone with plug and play HIDs without proper cutoff on the road, I immediately think they’re a pathetic ricer. To me, they’re the equivalent of the Tercel with the fartcan, or the stock Civic with a large GT aluminum wing. They get laughed at. > And everyone, I mean everyone I’ve ever met, that’s wanted HIDs, has wanted them for the look. You’re the perfect definition of ricer. Based of what you just said, makes me think that you are one of those people that only do things to there car because you care what another person will think when they look at it. Theres a distinct line between an enthusiast and someone like you. Enthusiasts do things to their car based on their wants and needs; they do things to their car because they care, and they’re “ **enthusiastic** ” towards their car. Not because they care about what you, or the rest of the people hanging out at a local Tim Hortons thinks. You are yet another person consumed by main stream media, probably because you’ve Fast and Furious too many times. Let me guess, everything have to ‘JDM TytE’ as well? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hids/112452)._