I just wanted to chime in on this since I've got a lot of expertise on it, and 5 close friends who are cops from city, county and state.
You most likely won't have a problem because 99 percent of the cops out there are ignorant of the law, and I don't mean this as an insult, but there's a LOT of laws and this one isn't something most concern themselves with. In discussions with my buddies, they are ALL under the impression that if something is DOT approved, it means it can be on your car, this is not true. HID light kits are DOT approved, but I don't know of a single state that says you can alter the lighting system of your car. As far as I am aware, in all states, if your vehicle came with a halgoen lighting system it HAS to stay that way. So, the kit my be DOT approved so you can buy repair kits for your car that came with HID lights, but it is illegal to replace an halogen system with a HID kit, even if you buy headlamp housings designed specifically for HID.
Here are some references:
Mr. Simon S. Shih, 4 Teal, Irvine, CA* 92604
Mr. Jeff Deetz, Sales Manager, Santeca Electronics, Inc., 7215 East 21<sup>st</sup> Street, Suite D, Indianapolis, IN 46219
Mr. Song M. Kim, C.M.O./Fanteks, Inc., 580 Sylvan Ave., Suite 1A, Englewood Cliffs, NJ* 07632
Now, with that said, a 2nd gen Tiburon has a projector beam housing, the same type you'd need for an HID kit. It directs the beam and has a cut off on it. If you parked a 2nd gen Tib in front of a white wall and turned your lights on, you'd see a very distinct line. Below that line, LIGHT, above it, no light. You need these types of housing in order to keep from blinding people. In a housing such as the Tiburon, you probably won't get noticed. Stick a kit in something like an Elantra and you may have trouble. Again, I have 5 very close friends who are cops, and within that group of friends I know an additional 6 or so just from hanging around my friends and going on ridealongs. 100 percent of them told me that if something was DOT approved then it's legal, but they are all wrong. I can say this much, the law is catching on, and as these become cheaper and more popular, the more they're going to catch on. One thing I learned riding with my buddy, they catch more drunk drivers, drug addicts/dealers, persons with outstanding warrants, or whatever by pulling them over for something stupid, like a burned out light, not signaling enough in advance for a turn/lane change......petty stuff like that.
So, depending on the knowlege of your local law, you may be getting a fix-it ticket, or not noticed at all. At the very least, you may need to aim your beams down a hair to keep from getting attention.
