No more depo headlights

[Jimmy D]

Probably just some too good to be true eBay knockoff bs, but anyone know / have experience with this product? Looks like they used the depo picture, and advertise them as glass headlights...

USA Plug & Play EURO Crystal Glass Headlights For 91-97 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ80 | eBay

 

[White Stripe]

Those are depo units afaik.

 

[thatcabledude]

Yup. Depos

 

[LINUS]

I haven’t contacted him yet, but last we talked it was a signal of their inventory being near out for the $3K set - like how he has a set of BMW “smiley” E30 smoked like Hella used to sell for about the same $$$ (NLA from Hella now too).

But the lenses & the fluting on the glass, plus the bulbs you would use in the $3K set look exactly the same as his new $349 sets.

If I didn’t already have a set in a box, I’d gamble.

If you’re going to do projectors, you’re going to heat them & pull the glass anyhow - so you control to quality of resealing......

 

[AZ4ME]

Probably just some too good to be true eBay knockoff bs, but anyone know / have experience with this product? Looks like they used the depo picture, and advertise them as glass headlights...

USA Plug & Play EURO Crystal Glass Headlights For 91-97 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ80 | eBay

Has anyone picked up this "plug and play" set? Just curious for any feedback.

 

[MickeyB]

Probably just some too good to be true eBay knockoff bs, but anyone know / have experience with this product? Looks like they used the depo picture, and advertise them as glass headlights...

USA Plug & Play EURO Crystal Glass Headlights For 91-97 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ80 | eBay

These are DEPO headlights ordered them off eBay and they arrived today.

 

[MickeyB]

Another pic

 

[AleonD]

Has anyone picked up this "plug and play" set? Just curious for any feedback.

I picked them up, they are DEPO headlights, had them installed without any issues. Everything is included.

 

[Desert Dino]

This are Glass Lens ?

 

[Willy beamin]

Got mine yesterday. Ordered in April of this year, 8 months later I have them! I have yet to install but they passed my inspection and they are glass.

 

[Desert Dino]

Got mine yesterday. Ordered in April of this year, 8 months later I have them! I have yet to install but they passed my inspection and they are glass.

@Willy beamin 8 months later ??? where did you order? and how much did you pay?

My question was for the Depo lights from Ebay

 

[Willy beamin]

oh, I see. Ordered through andy's auto sport for $225 - guy talked me into the harness and bulbs, as seen on the ebay listing, for an additional $35. Realize that that impulse buy on the harness and bulbs might work out to be a waste of money. nonetheless I'm happy to not be on the hunt anymore.

 

[Dragos80]

Glass lens.
You need some type of harness. The light bulbs used in Depo headlights are different than what Toyota uses.
There is a need for an adapter from Toyota plug to Depo plug.

I used a more expensive harness $50-$60 a few years ago which does not allow the low beam to turn on the second filament when you turn on the high beams. The bulb is a dual filament, but without a relay and some wiring you cannot have that feature.

If the harness does it, then it's worth it (and necessary of course).

 

[Jsin]

Glass lens.
You need some type of harness. The light bulbs used in Depo headlights are different than what Toyota uses.
There is a need for an adapter from Toyota plug to Depo plug.

I used a more expensive harness $50-$60 a few years ago which does not allow the low beam to turn on the second filament when you turn on the high beams. The bulb is a dual filament, but without a relay and some wiring you cannot have that feature.

If the harness does it, then it's worth it (and necessary of course).

So the DEPO kits don't have/don't accept 9006/9005 bulbs?

 

[Dragos80]

Nope. Euro bulbs.

 

[AleonD]

@Willy beamin 8 months later ??? where did you order? and how much did you pay?

My question was for the Depo lights from Ebay

The ones on Ebay are glass, i can confirm based on what i received.

 

[bryson]

As far as I know, and have ever seen, ALL Depo headlights for 80s are glass lenses, and NONE of them take the stock bulbs that a US spec 80 takes. Depo 80 lights take H4 low beam bulbs (but only use the low filament as mentioned before), and H1 high beam bulbs. Anyone installing the "plug and play" Depo kit is installing the standard Depo lights, H4/H1 bulbs, and a conversion harness to match up to the stock 80 headlight (9005/9006) harness.

 

[1yellowhotrod]

Hi

Depo is a Taiwanese company. The headlights are glass - it’s better than the vast majority of plastic crap that Toyota sells OEM. The housing backing and mount plastic is lower quality than 80 series OEM, but with just a straight plug and play factory harness adapter for the H4/H1 bulbs the light output is far superior to OEM and the look isn’t super Euro modern. It would be a shame to lose this from the U.S. market.

The question of DOT compliance is interesting since it’s the bulb. The H1/H4 bulbs are interchangeable in terms of base/plug, e.g. 9003 interchangeable with H4. This can create a technical DOT compliance issue, but it would never show up in the real world where somebody would get busted. I can’t imagine what else it would be.

Here’s an article discussing this issue.

http://candlepowerinc.com/pdfs/H4_9003.pdf

I just got some Depo lights so you have to get H1 and H4 bulb's?

 

[1yellowhotrod]

Nope. Euro bulbs.

Do you know exactly which blubs to get for these Depo lights?

 

[1yellowhotrod]

Another pic

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What blubs did you use I already have adapters from Toyota to led?