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LED bulbs

I went for sealed LED units rather than a LED bulb in a H4 housing. Works beautifully for me. 4500 lumens per bulb on high beam. 2200 lumens on low beam. DOT legal. I love it. I can see deer 1/4 mile away
 
I have some kind of Chinese copy. 25 watt per side per hi/low.

Beam pattern in the Ecodes with new/fresh reflectors is good (confirmed by workshop/checkup annual), no complaints. Bulb is slightly loose in the socket, need to address that. Little bit of radio interference. Lots of light. 28 bux shipped from China.
More lumen than a Halogen, i'm happy.
 
I too have use the China LED's and love the way I see thing but not a good cut off and these Phillips are the next generation in LED I think. They are not cheap! They have come down to about $188.00 but in test these perform like factory and are a focused LED. When a friend mention them too me, my response was Hell to the no!��. I was hoping someone here had tried them and justify me spending all the money on bulbs.
 
I had an LED conversion done on my Audi. The results were amazing. Crystal white and significantly brighter.

If you are in the Albany NY area I had mine done at Tint World.
 
does not aplly for 940s.. the heatconductor doesnt fit the housing.. one needs to order the one with the coppertail heatsinks..
 
I went for sealed LED units rather than a LED bulb in a H4 housing. Works beautifully for me. 4500 lumens per bulb on high beam. 2200 lumens on low beam. DOT legal. I love it. I can see deer 1/4 mile away

hi im in floral park, long island

can you teach me how you did yours?

240 or 940? I have both and wish to upgrade to LED for both

please feel free to email me at acasino.law@gmail.com

thanks
andrew
 
LEDs are about 50/50. 50% of the time people think they work great. The other 50% think they suck.

YMMV.

If you do it, spend the money on good ones. Never buy anything that states "55 watts of light" or "JDM".
 
I've never used Philips LED headlight bulbs, but I can vouch for their interior LED's: heads and shoulders above the other Chinese garbage. Better packaging, reliability, color temp, everything. You do pay for it though.
 
I went for sealed LED units rather than a LED bulb in a H4 housing. Works beautifully for me.

I have some kind of Chinese copy. 25 watt per side per hi/low.

I too have use the China LED's

I had an LED conversion done on my Audi. The results were amazing.

I love how so many people who have actually done this offer ZERO useful info for anyone who might actually want to try it. Maybe their actually embarrassed of what they bought? Worthless.

This one helps though:
LEDs are about 50/50. 50% of the time people think they work great. The other 50% think they suck. YMMV. If you do it, spend the money on good ones. Never buy anything that states "55 watts of light" or "JDM".

Dave B.
 
does not aplly for 940s.. the heatconductor doesnt fit the housing.. one needs to order the one with the coppertail heatsinks..

I shaved my headlight assembly to get the 9004 led bulbs to fit. I really didn't want to but said screw it. I like the a lot. Very happy with the results
 
The big problem with LED conversions is the placement and shuttering of the low beam element.

Most have excessive light scatter and although drivers report better vision, oncoming traffic reports with a finger!

Do everyone a favor and get DOT approved.
You actually do yourself a favor when you do that because the wasted light that gets scattered by non-dot lights gets focussed where you need it on approved lights so you actually get better lighting.

Best seems to be projector setups. There are some very reasonably priced round light replacements that are DOT blessed.
 
So many of these threads come up it's not worth repeating all the old arguments: aftermarket LED headlights are mostly worthless. They are overwhelmingly not DOT legal, unreliable, and completely unfit for the reflectors they're plugged into.

All they do is blind other drivers while the owner claims ZOMG I SEE SO MUCH BETTER!!!11111!!!11!

While not realizing all the scattered extra FOREGROUND light they put out actually makes them see WORSE at distance, which the LED's completely suck at anyway. Daniel Stern explains all this more articulately on his great site. [/unpopular opinion]

I used to sell them and I hate them, if you can't tell. Get some decent halogens and e-codes. Driving lights if you need more.
 
You're opinion may possibly be valid, however I'm guessing you accidentally wrote LED instead of HID. Maybe you're transferring your hatred of aftermarket HID onto the LED market?

I have found zero references to anything LED in Daniel Stern's site.

This kind of tech is evolving like the HID thing did, and I don't think anyone can say yet what kind of lighting quality will come of it. Trying new stuff out is what we've been doing on TB for many years. If you have a better argument against that than a non-existent Daniel Stern reference, let us know. If a new tech offers a possibility of better light using less juice, I want to see how it evolves.
Dave B.

So many of these threads come up it's not worth repeating all the old arguments: aftermarket LED headlights are mostly worthless. They are overwhelmingly not DOT legal, unreliable, and completely unfit for the reflectors they're plugged into.

All they do is blind other drivers while the owner claims ZOMG I SEE SO MUCH BETTER!!!11111!!!11!

While not realizing all the scattered extra FOREGROUND light they put out actually makes them see WORSE at distance, which the LED's completely suck at anyway. Daniel Stern explains all this more articulately on his great site. [/unpopular opinion]

I used to sell them and I hate them, if you can't tell. Get some decent halogens and e-codes. Driving lights if you need more.
 
I agree with Dave, LED tech is still maturing for headlights, the good ones are expensive and the cheap ones are crap, I have LED taillights, turn signals, interior lighting etc, but not headlights, patiently waiting for them to get reasonable pricewise
 
You're opinion may possibly be valid, however I'm guessing you accidentally wrote LED instead of HID. Maybe you're transferring your hatred of aftermarket HID onto the LED market?

Nope. I meant LED's, HID's have been more reliable in terms of vibration and the bulbs lasting longer than a couple months, in my experience.

I have found zero references to anything LED in Daniel Stern's site.

What I was referring to specifically was where he explains what fog lights are actually for and why they turn off with the high beams. The part about the extra foreground light hurting your distance vision directly applies to LED bulbs.

Also there is a good article on color temp and why if your lights are blue at all, they are no good for distance

I'm not discouraging the use of LED's (and like I said earlier, I really like the Philips brand) I am discouraging using non DOT approved LED headlight bulbs in reflectors they were not designed for.
 
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