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Homey15

Homey15

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This has been discussed before, but most threads I found were 5-10 years old and led lighting is advancing quickly. I decided to go against general consensus of the discussions I had found and swap led bulbs into my factory housings. I've been running this setup for a couple months now and have not been flashed by oncoming traffic a single time. Immediately after the swap I had my old lady drive the cruiser and I drove another of my vehicles meeting one another on the road and I find that meeting my cruiser at night is absolutely no more blinding/obnoxious than any current production vehicle with led headlights. I also added a pair of auxbeam led pod lights, wired on a three way switch with options for off, on constantly, and on with high beams and off with low beams. The pod lights are https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DMNQKK1V?tag=ihco-20
The headlight bulbs are https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DCZDTP29?tag=ihco-20
And https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DCZFZWYM?tag=ihco-20
Before the led swap I had Sylvania silver Star 9005 bulbs for all 4 headlights. I'll attach pictures and let them speak for themselves but I wanted to put my experience in led bulbs with factory housings here for the benefit of others contemplating lighting upgrades and wanting info based on currently available options.

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The pictures give a good idea of the difference between the two but in person out on the highway the upgrade is massive, it's a entirely different rig with the new lighting and I am now planning on the exact same headlight bulb upgrade for a couple of my other vehicles. I live in deer country and feel like this swap is likely the difference in hitting one without ever knowing it was there and seeing it soon enough to avoid a incident.
 
Interesting.

In the past, I found LED lighting from a light bar harsh and tiring.
It washes out the color of what you see. Kind of screws with depth/distance perception , and reflects harshly off road signs.
It definitely lights up signs and reflectors a long way down the road.

Not sure the benefits match the extra brightness :hmm: no doubt better than the stock glow worms though.
I have wondered if there's a good option with a warmer colour tone. My work truck needs better lights!
 
morimoto 2stoke 4.0 bulbs working great for me. No weird hot spots or anything, comparable to a new car. Slightly warmer color temp then the other LED offerings.
 
Homey15 said:
The pictures give a good idea of the difference between the two but in person out on the highway the upgrade is massive, it's a entirely different rig with the new lighting and I am now planning on the exact same headlight bulb upgrade for a couple of my other vehicles. I live in deer country and feel like this swap is likely the difference in hitting one without ever knowing it was there and seeing it soon enough to avoid a incident.
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Valid point
mudgudgeon said:
Interesting.

In the past, I found LED lighting from a light bar harsh and tiring.
It washes out the color of what you see. Kind of screws with depth/distance perception , and reflects harshly off road signs.
It definitely lights up signs and reflectors a long way down the road.

Not sure the benefits match the extra brightness :hmm: no doubt better than the stock glow worms though.
I have wondered if there's a good option with a warmer colour tone. My work truck needs better lights!
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No arguments on road signs being lit almost too well, and I also prefer the warmer color of the incandescent bulbs. Unfortunately the sterile white light is part of the deal, and a compromise I'm willing to accept in trade for drastically increased viewing distance.
 
I’m running LED lamps in a couple vehicles, I like them except for driving when it is snowing, it turns into a white cloud and it’s almost impossible to tell where you are on the road.
 
@Homey15 Any chance you can post those links again please? One of them tries to access your cart so we can’t access it. Thanks
 
@Homey15

Did you just reply to yourself with "Valid Point" 😁

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Following because I might switch to LED but I thought this reply to oneself was funny.

I do have in bumper LED driving lights to help with high beams but my low beams are horrible. I drive a Ford Lightning with LED Matrix Headlights as a daily and then I drive the LX450 and it is like going back to candle light in the dark ages.
 
NeverFinis said:
@Homey15

Did you just reply to yourself with "Valid Point" 😁

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Following because I might switch to LED but I thought this reply to oneself was funny.

I do have in bumper LED driving lights to help with high beams but my low beams are horrible. I drive a Ford Lightning with LED Matrix Headlights as a daily and then I drive the LX450 and it is like going back to candle light in the dark ages.
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Hahah I hadn't caught that. That entire reply was meant for mudgugeon, I'm not real sure how I quoted myself in that reply as well
 
NewbyColorado said:
Thank you for this... Is this plug and play? Anything special you have to do to install?
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The headlights are plug and play, the only difference between installing these bulbs and any conventional bulb is clocking the LED light in the mount base. It's a very simple process- you just look through the headlight lens and rotate the bulb in the mount housing until it is vertical. The bulbs come with instructions that cover this. The pod lights took some custom wiring to work on the three way switch, and that info can be found here-
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Thread 'How do I use High beams as a trigger for my aux lights?'

My goal is to use a relay to power my aux lights while using my high beams as the "switch".

I wired everything up correctly but using my voltmeter I get 12 volts on my high beam side both when high beam is triggered, and when high beam is off my volt meter still reads 12 volts on the high beam side. This leads to the question why aren't the high beams illuminated while the voltage is present? The problem is the aux lights stay on both high, and low beam. I do not want a switch in the cabin.

I read a ton of threads today and got that the red with yellow stripe is the negative side. I...
 
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