Colored license plate bulb. legal in CA?

[2000GTZ]

note: i dunno the exact code for the license plate bulb yet, still gotta look at manual, so i will refer to them as license plate bulb. lol.

So, i was thinking about having red license plate bulbs to match my car, and i remember reading about the CA law, where the only legal colors from the rear is red, white, and amber. so would having red license plate bulbs be legal? if so, where the hell can i find them? =D (i think i saw blue ones at autozone, ill have to check around again)

itll be sure to attract anti-rice comments i bet, but i dont mind as long as its legal. i think it would look nice..

also, i was thinking about brighter reverse lights. and if the red license plate bulbs arent legal, brighter white license plate bulbs.

[peanotation]

well, i have hyper white reverse lights, they're a bit brighter and obviously whiter, and my license plate lights are hyperwhite, because the stock bulbs are....putrid yellow. go on ebay for all your bulb needs.

[tim888tim]

I looked in the regulations a few weeks ago and the rear license plate bulb must be white. It doesn't say how white only that it needs to be white and light enough to see clearly from xx feet (i forget exactly how much)

[Prophet]

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/dmv.htm ('http://www.dmv.ca.gov/dmv.htm')

[mrjaydeeone]

the bulb if I am not mistaken is a 194

[tim888tim]

Found it:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>License Plate Lamp

24601. Â* Either the taillamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear license plate during darkness and render it clearly legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. When the rear license plate is illuminated by a lamp other than a required taillamp, the two lamps shall be turned on or off only by the same control switch at all times.

Amended Ch. 1313, Stats. 1965. Effective September 17, 1965.</div>
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24601.htm ('http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24601.htm')

[2000GTZ]

oh. well thats crap. lol. nm then. maybe for show use.

also, im retarded! i bought the wrong kind of headlight bulbs, im going back tomorrow to exchange. hopefully they let me. i could swear to god ours are 9004...but then thats HB1. we need HB2. DURR.. yeah. i was mad at myself for not being able to remember 4 numbers or 2 letters and a number.

i think the license bulbs are 168. then again, there could be a chance i forgot 3 simple numbers.

[Prophet]

Headlights are H4's.

[Danger DANJ]

I've been riding around with a red license plate bulb for years in NY and I haven't had a problem so far. Knock on wood.

[Prophet]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Danger DANJ)</div><div class='quotemain'>I've been riding around with a red license plate bulb for years in NY and I haven't had a problem so far. Knock on wood.</div>

Yeah that is just a cali law. You might have a different law there. I know my boy got a ticket when he changed out his reverse lights.

[mrjaydeeone]

my reverse lights are a bluish greenish color and no problems here
knock on wood