LED Replacement headlights

[Slowpoke Slim]

I think offenders who use them should be duct taped to a chair, sat in front of their own vehicle in a dark garage, have their eyelids glued open and forced to stare into their own light beams for 8-10 hours straight.

But what do I know...



There's a reason Every. Single. Kit. Is. Illegal.

None are DOT approved.

But the cops have way too much to deal with to worry about lights.

And I'm sure you get out and "properly re-adjust" your lights Every. Single. Time. You put a load in the truck bed, or hitch to a trailer, that changes your ride height or angle, even a millimeter, right?

 

[dodge man]

I tend to agree that LED bulbs in stock housings are going to blind other drivers 99% of the time.

 

[dieselscout80]

I tend to agree that LED bulbs in stock housings are going to blind other drivers 99% of the time.

Yes I agree that one needs to get complete housing that were designed as LED from the start.

 

[Code54]

I have an aftermarket LED replacement light assembly kit in my Jeep Wrangler - it is DOT approved and works perfectly. It wasn't some cheap Chinese knock-off kit, but no one ever flashes their lights at me, and my ability to see while driving is drastically improved. I was rather impressed with how sharp of a cut-off the LEDs had when I was installing them. Far sharper than the factory non-led headlight assemblies, so aiming them was relatively simple and even covered in the directions if you had any questions on how to do it. Personally, I won't buy a vehicle with non-LED headlights any longer. When we bought my wife's car, I wouldn't even look at lower trims without the LEDs as they offer too big of a jump in nighttime safety in the rural area we live and drive.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

I have an aftermarket LED replacement light assembly kit in my Jeep Wrangler - it is DOT approved and works perfectly. It wasn't some cheap Chinese knock-off kit, but no one ever flashes their lights at me, and my ability to see while driving is drastically improved. I was rather impressed with how sharp of a cut-off the LEDs had when I was installing them. Far sharper than the factory non-led headlight assemblies, so aiming them was relatively simple and even covered in the directions if you had any questions on how to do it. Personally, I won't buy a vehicle with non-LED headlights any longer. When we bought my wife's car, I wouldn't even look at lower trims without the LEDs as they offer too big of a jump in nighttime safety in the rural area we live and drive.

Do you have a link?

I'm curious. What company, and what model lights did you go with.

 

[5030]

I've never felt there was need for lights any brighter than come in vehicles from the factory. Blinding other drivers with "hopped up" headlamps should carry a stiff fine.

As well as the 'off road' labelled light bars people install that are poorly aimed.

 

[5030]

About 10 years ago I burned out a headlight in my 1995 Ford F250 diesel and wanted something brighter so I installed HID 6000K headlights. I probably don't drive it at night or with the headlights on 25 hours in a year. I tried everything I knew how to do but could not get the lights aimed properly but at least they were aimed too low and off to the side so I wasn't blinding oncoming traffic.

Now with probably less than 250 hours of use one of them has burned out and I decided to junk them. Looking for new bulbs on Amazon I found out that 95% of the ads were for LED replacement bulbs, 6500K, that are supposed to be much brighter than the originals, last longer and are easy to aim correctly. Some Halogen bulb ads state that it is illegal to use LED bulbs as a replacement for halogen bulbs but that is beside the point.

Have any of you had experience replacing halogen bulbs with LED bulbs and have any positive or negative comments about it?

Stock Kubota headlights have always been woefully poor. I changed out both of my M9's to LED lights and they are much better. The ones I bought fit the stock headlight buckets and I think they were about 35 bucks a set when I bought them a couple years ago. In fact I've retrofitted all the lights on mine to LED's For me, good thing about LED's are the low amp draw compared to the light produced.

 

[sd455dan]

Yeah and run folks off in the ditch that meet you at night.

It is to bad the US laws around headlights have been so slow to catch up with Europe.

The "smart" ADB (Adaptive Driving Beam) technology can literally draw a line and section where the beam stops. so oncoming traffic isn't night blinded.
It can also section additional light on the side of the road which can help a driver see wildlife approaching before they try to become part of the vehicles grille.
I guess the Fed regulators did approve the tech in January but put some additional limits on light output as well.

here is Toyota's system demo.

U.S. Approval of Smart Headlights Has a Catch: They Can’t Be Too Bright

Adaptive beam headlights continually reshape the light they throw to avoid blinding oncoming drivers.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Code54]

Pro Comp 7

Get the lowest price and fast shipping on Pro Comp 7

www.4wd.com

They are the Pro-Comp lights - if you look at the photos, you can see they are stamped DOT. They are also a lifetime warranty (and Pro-Comp is a fairly large company so hopefully, they will be around for a good while if needed)

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Pro Comp 7

Get the lowest price and fast shipping on Pro Comp 7

www.4wd.com

They are the Pro-Comp lights - if you look at the photos, you can see they are stamped DOT. They are also a lifetime warranty (and Pro-Comp is a fairly large company so hopefully, they will be around for a good while if needed)

That is interesting that the lens is marked as DOT (looking at the picture), but the literature doesn't mention if it is or not?

With your jeep lights, there is no separate headlight bucket that a bulb gets inserted into.

Not sure why they're (Pro-Comp) not bragging on being DOT approved?