LED Headlights

[GLTHFJ60]

LED headlights from truck-lite (and others) are full housing replacements with LEDs as the lighting source. I love my roundeyes, so I'd like to keep them, and they take a H4 bulb. Just stumbled across these on Facebook:

https://www.lifetimeledlights.com/led_lights/led_headlights_h49003_highlow

http://www.southeastoverland.com/in...t_id=343&virtuemart_category_id=114&Itemid=33

Seems to be a perfect, and relatively cheap, headlight upgrade. Has anyone used these bulbs before, or heard of anyone else using them?

 

[forrest5000]

I have some lifetime in the 80 , they are great!

 

[mtweller]

Southeast Overland has been an ONSC sponsor in the past. Give Steve a call and let him know you are president of ONSC and he'll surely steer you right.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Southeast Overland has been an ONSC sponsor in the past. Give Steve a call and let him know you are president of ONSC and he'll surely steer you right.

Absolutely, and we met him at the Leith Toyota car show. Winching techniques aside (fourtrax), Steve seemed to be a good guy. Wanted to get some more opinions from people other than the merchant before dropping the coin.

 

[lt1fire]

I personally wouldn't do it.

At your height you would serirously blind people coming the other way or people in front of you. Same reason I don't run HID's in my Low beams. The round eye housings aren't mad

I can say that Eric's LED's in his 80 are super bright..... pretty much blinded me when we was driving behind me and I was in Andrea's Jetta..... and this was in the day. I was all set to get some untill then. I may still get some but for my high beams.

The trucklites, while expensive, are awesome. They light up everything, but the cut off is great
I drove the Brett’s old Troopie (Greg’s Current Troopie) for a few hours in the middle of the night with them after I installed them in the rig. I also drove in front of it when brett was driving for a few hours and never once was blinded.

One option you may want to consider is (now I will get flamed for this) the housings from the new jeeps. Pirate4x4 did a headlight comparo on one with the trucklite leds, jb speaker leds, round eye and hella housings, delta HID headlights, and then the stock housings with PIAA super bulbs and HID’s in the stock housing. They said the cut off on the stock housing was like they were made for HIDs. They will fit in a 60, 55 or 40 series cruiser. So if you wanted brighter headlights without blinding people that may be the way to go. With the good cut off the Lifetime LED’s should work pretty good in it.

 

[lt1fire]

Here's the comparo I may have been off on what was included but the statement about the jk housings was right.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/usmcdoc/lights/


ultimately it is up to you, but I know how much I hate being blinded while driving

 

[JohnVee]

I might be with Al here. I love seeing everything around me, but my first impression of driving with Eric (Lifetime on low beams only) was that I was annoyed by how bright the road signs were, especially the stop signs in low light neighborhoods. I also second that I will never again voluntarily drive in front of him. His lights are probably aimed right since they weren't obnoxious when they were regular bulbs. My eyes do tend to be light sensitive, though.

I'd love to see them in good lenses on the 40. You'd probably still blind everybody else oncoming, but who knows.

Good idea, Al, on maybe running them only on the high beam bulbs - but not applicable to Johnny with the 60.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Good thoughts, hadn't thought of the aiming thing before. I don't have a problem with the roundeyes I've got now.

Will do some reading on the Jeep JK housings. Wouldn't be the first Jeep originated truck on my truck

 

[forrest5000]

Those are brighter than mine.

 

[elkaholic]

Actually, the best lights I ever ran in a stock location were Hella e code housings with IPF H4 bulbs in an old Jeep LJ. Unbelievable pattern cutoff and very good light output. I think these are the lights (the place I got them from no longer exists) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FKIURK/?tag=ihco-20

Note that the e code lights are not DOT approved, so you may have some inspection issues ...

I had a set of Warn dual pattern lights from another old rig that I never even mounted to the LJ once I put these on.

 

[Rice]

Actually, the best lights I ever ran in a stock location were Hella e code housings with IPF H4 bulbs in an old Jeep LJ. Unbelievable pattern cutoff and very good light output. I think these are the lights (the place I got them from no longer exists) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FKIURK/?tag=ihco-20

Note that the e code lights are not DOT approved, so you may have some inspection issues ...

I had a set of Warn dual pattern lights from another old rig that I never even mounted to the LJ once I put these on.

I agree with Sam. I run the Hella housing and H4 bulbs in my 40. Plus, you can buy H4 bulbs that are 55 Watts low beam (i.e. normal output) and 100 Watt high beam (i.e. air traffic calling in for landing clearance). Compared to OEM it's the shizzle. (Note: I would not run the 100W high beams without relays)

Jason runs a set also and seems to like them.