QUOTE
americans are stupid
....not stupid,
but instead:
greedy (fraudulant body shops)
or
thiefs (the people stealing the headlights for cash)
or
@-holes (the people installing the stolen components on thier cars, I want to say it's mostly on the "ricer" cars, but everyone is fair game when it comes to "pimp'n out my ride" )
in a perfect world, we'd be able to perform a sting with the headlights having a GPS (or better yet, explosives) to catch/disable the f'n thiefs
I've heard of some Porsche owners even getting rid of the litronic lights for normal lights just to have the "regular" lights stolen by a really stupid thief.