Last night around 8p.m. I was driving down I-5 from Bremerton to see a girl friend in Tacoma. When all of a sudden I see a State Patrol doing his radar thing. I pass him going 65mph thinkin' I'm alright. Well I was wrong he caught up to me, cruised behind me on the other lane. Then wAm...lights came on. I'm like damnit, I'm gonna get canned for having a loud exhaust and a test pipe. He comes to my passenger window and tells me why he pulled me over. "You know your TAILLIGHTS are illegal?" Thank goodness my exhaust was super dirty.
I'm like "Are you serious?" "This car comes stock like this from the factory." He then tells me about how the part on our taillight where it has the white light. "In the state of Washington it's illegal to have white lights...you're going to have to buy either amber or red bulbs." Again, "These come stock like that." Obviously, it didn't get through his head. "Well it's illegal get it fixed." Does the usual license regristration. Sat in the car for 5mins, came back and gave me my stuff back. I get out the car to see what he was talkn' about and we start talkn' about S2000's. Finally, after talkn' for a bit I told him I gotta go. Pulled out praying he wouldn't pull me over again cause my exhaust was pretty loud getting back on the highway. Overall pretty cool guy. So, this is just a heads up for you AP1 brothers out there...Sorry this was long.

 

Good to hear you didnt get a ticket or anything, but now Im paranoid since my lights are blacked out...Ive been looking to get AP2 tails for awhile now, seems like I need to finally go through with the idea and find a decent pair

 

so there was a TSB for MY00 for the taillight plastic fading to pink or worse...

https://www.s2ki.com/shared/library/TSB/a04-033.pdf

 

Yeah, it didn't "come from the factory" as white. The taillights came from the factory as red, and then (on the MY00) faded.

The backup lights are white, as are all backup lights.

It's not clear who is being the dufus here -- whether you are driving around with faded taillight lenses or the cop can't tell the difference between backup lights and tail lights.

Another thing to check: you don't have some electrical glitch that is turning your backup lights on while driving, do you?

 

Well don't I feel like a dork...looks like i'm apart of the Noncompliance Recall checked my VIN. Trust me I feel hella retarded. Now that I think of it. It's faded to where it's not pink but straight white lmao. And no I don't have an electrical glitch...thx for the info guys.

 

Replace my taillights a few months back. I just went to work and check my vin# and it fell in the recall thing. So honda replaced them for free. PM me your vin if you want me to check.

 

I was thinking he meant the reverse lites as well.

 

ahh it all makes sense now. i was also under the impression that state patrol marked you up for having white backup lights.

 

wow so let me get this strait, the red brake light lenses on the 00 year fade to white?

 

...did you click the link?