Issues with lights in a night photo

[platinumsc7]

I need some help with a picture that I took the other night. I was messing around with some night shots, nothing serious but more for practicing with different setting. I took some pics of my car and when I came home I noticed that a lot of them had some weird lighting issues going on. They had some bluish fringing around the lights and some colored streaking in the image. Here is what I use- Canon Rebel XT with the kit lens ( I really want to upgrade in a bad way! ). I shot all the photos in RAW. The camera settings were as follows- ISO 100, f 9.0, shutter 1.6, exposure 0, focal length 28mm.

I tried using a smaller aperture so that the lights wouldn't be way blown out, but they still are. The lens is very clean as far as I can tell. I didn't know if I needed a filter of some sort, or if I need to change some of my settings. Maybe it just happened to be the way the light was coming in. I tried to change the chromatic aberration settings in ACR but it didn't do any good. If anybody has any idea what I can do then I am all ears! Thanks!

Here is the photo-

[OsmosisStudios]

That's lens flare, which is inherent in lens design. Engineers try to minimize it, but it's still sometimes there. The 18-55 kit lens, however, is still prone to it.

If you have any kind of filter on the lens, remove it and try again. Filters can often cause flaring on lenses that otherwise wouldnt.

Failing that, just accept it or try cloning it out in post.