GQ: "Is It Illegal To Have Neon Lights On Your Car?"

By Michael Buczyner, michaelb@wagt.com

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By NBCAugusta Reporters

Modifying your car can be eye catching and also very expensive and if your not careful, it can also catch the eye of law enforcement.

Joseph from Evans wants to know if it's legal to have neon lights on your car?

From satellite radio to satellite TV to GPS. The sky is the limit when it comes to 'tricking' out your ride.

Richard Hurt modifies cars at this Martinez shop. "A lot of them are accenting the vehicle with neon lights and under body neon."

Hurt installs dozen of the light kits each year and for $300, you too can glow on the road. But there's certain colors he won't put under that car, that's because they're illegal. "If somebody wants you to do a blue light, you really shouldn't do that. It interferes with the law," Hurt said.

"You can't have the blue lights, you can't have the red lights, you can't have flashing green lights," Columbia County Deputy Bobby Bradford said.

If deputy Bradford see those lights, he'll show you his blue lights. "If they're under the car and the lights are not visible, we cannot stop them. But if the lights are visible and the lights can be seen we do stop them."

And if you're stopped, you'll see red and pay a lot of green, $119 to be exact. So if you decide to customize your ride, you'll want to stay away from red, blue and flashing green.

If you live in South Carolina, the law there says it's illegal to have any blue, red or flashing lights anywhere on your vehicle.

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Monday, Oct 19 at 7:20 PM whit wrote ...

does any one know about wyoming...?

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Monday, Oct 19 at 7:19 PM whit wrote ...

so does any one know about neon license plate covers...? r they cool in any color or at all?

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Saturday, Sep 5 at 5:37 PM Doc with Blue Lights. wrote ...

Live in Indiana, have a black sports car with tinted windows with blue lights, accidentally had them flashing, got pulled over in WV (after driving past multiple cops in Indiana, Ohio, and WV with non flashing blue). Got off without a ticket, but I got pulled out of the car and frisked. I'm also a doctor and totally examining legal options. My advise = make a lawyer your friend and never talk to cops. Ever. No really I'm serious. Never. (Cops stereotype and profile a lot)

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Saturday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM A Mom wrote ...

We live in SC. My son wanted to install purple neon lights under his car. As a mom, I called the our local police departments including Highway Patrol and each one of them said that they were legal as long as they were not red, blue or rotating lights. That was in April. He recently received a ticket(237.50) from one of the local departments that I had called. Now you have half of them that say that they are legal and the other half of that one department saying that they are not legal

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Monday, Jun 8 at 9:34 PM cole wrote ...

i got muti color led lights so thaks i wount use red,blue,or,green,but i will used purple,yellow,and pink

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Friday, Apr 17 at 7:48 PM travis wrote ...

i got pulled over an searched for having green neons an cop showed me a book saying its illegal for green so im waiting for a sheriff to call me an tell me a definate answer... cant b showing or flashing

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Tuesday, Apr 14 at 3:44 PM Anonymous wrote ...

cool i want to put LED lights under my car and i am moving to GA so i will definately stay away from blue,red and green ones.

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Friday, Apr 3 at 9:37 AM ben wrote ...

I think it is legal to have certain colors inside your car, i have red and blue inside my car but they are concealed under the dashboard..

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Tuesday, Mar 24 at 11:06 AM Mitch wrote ...

I hate that the red and blue neons are illegal... i think tha they should allow that and use the orange or something but that's how they are trying to cut down on the use of neon lights... they think that since they took the cool colors fewer people will use them but i got news for them I'M PUTTING THEM ON MY CAR IF I WANT THEM!!!

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Monday, Jan 5 at 6:10 PM guillermo wrote ...

so, can l put green lasers under my car?

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Sunday, Dec 28 at 1:41 PM Sean wrote ...

This sucks, I was debating as to either Red or Blue neons in and under my car and now I have to go with anyother color. I live in SC by the way.

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Friday, Oct 17 at 8:21 PM Yohance wrote ...

So what lights Are legal?

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Sunday, Sep 7 at 4:05 AM CJ wrote ...

this is silly. why can't cops just use ugly colors like orange so we can use cool colors like red, blue and green. Makes no sense to outlaw all the cool colors that people want to use.

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Tuesday, Aug 26 at 11:59 PM Tess wrote ...

I've heard green isn't allowed anymore because it is the color of homeland security.

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Monday, Aug 18 at 2:04 PM Brannon wrote ...

i got pulled over last night for running purple neon's under my car

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Sunday, Jul 20 at 6:41 PM austin wrote ...

what about neon INSIDE your car???

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Sunday, Jul 13 at 10:17 PM Chris wrote ...

Fine was dropped and I'm not complaining, But im not doing that again.

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Friday, Jun 20 at 8:32 AM Michael wrote ...

In georgia,you can not have red or blue neon lights only.

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Thursday, Jun 5 at 9:54 PM Moose wrote ...

so solid green underbody LEDs are ok to have lit while driving?

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Thursday, May 22 at 6:32 AM Chris wrote ...

I got pulled for having my green lights under my front bumper on. The Dep. said it was a improper side cowl violation and a $232.50 fine. Whats up with that? I live in Lexingtion.

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Sunday, May 4 at 9:39 AM kyle wrote ...

thanks for that. thats ganna save my ass from a lot of run ins with the pigs. because i was going to do green. hha damn. so puple it is! thanks again.

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Monday, Apr 28 at 4:00 AM rick wrote ...

In South Carolina is it red lights in general or red flashing lights?

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