To that, I say: BOO! LED's bad!
Sorry, I'm biased. I think halogens are better suited for vehicle headlamps. Plus, I think all the LED housings are ugly on XJ's.
I am with you on that.
All the LED's with the exception of the TruckLites are butt ugly IMO.
And for me to spend that much money my '00 would have to be the most pristine POS out there.
LOL.
Plus then there is the whole melting of the snow thing.
And not really trying to buy heated ones so.....
Link just takes me to the homepage, but I can see it says JW Speaker in the link.
To that, I say: BOO! LED's bad!
Sorry, I'm biased. I think halogens are better suited for vehicle headlamps. Plus, I think all the LED housings are ugly on XJ's.
Holy crap, I cannot believe those are 55/60W bulbs! Looks great, you'll love those. Hopefully the bulb life is decent.
They’re +120 so they are supposed to put out 120% of the light output of a bulb rated the same wattage. Not sure how that works. I don’t think they last as long as other bulbs but they’re only $45.
In TV we use lights called HMI (hydrogyrum medium arc iodide, I think) and they also put out way more light than the wattage would lead you to believe.
Those LEDs that someone linked to might put out good light but they look absolutely hideous to me. I want everything as close to stock as possible or else you lose the look.
Yeah, no LED's for me either. I gave the ones that came on my Jeep to a guy who bought an aftermarket bumper that I had for sale. He was giddy.
I haven't had mine out in the dark since I bought it, but I have standard sealed beams with an aftermarket harness. I suspect they will be just fine considering how little I drive at night. If not, I'll buy some Hella H4's.
I bought the K-Suspension harness also. As far as the economics, yeah they may not be the highest quality components but I'm sure they enjoy some economies of scale by purchasing in bulk.
I thought about building my own but when I started looking for relays it was hard for me to tell if I was truly getting a better relay or just paying more.
@Old Man Minimalist I know that Daniel Stern sells a few different harness configurations depending on how much work you want to do yourself. He is pretty adamant about some of the popular harnesses not being sufficient quality but his standards may also be much higher. Theory vs practice.
The super bright oncoming driver blinders, yuck! They ought to be outlawed. I wish the fuzz would ticket folks with blinding light set ups., better still take a billy club to the offending lights, and order the driver to walk home in the dark.
Seems like a lot of cars these days are set up to blind others.
The super bright oncoming driver blinders, yuck! They ought to be outlawed. I wish the fuzz would ticket folks with blinding light set ups., better still take a billy club to the offending lights, and order the driver to walk home in the dark.
Seems like a lot of cars these days are set up to blind others.
Are you referring to my lights? These are Tungsram 60/55W bulbs and they are aimed properly. They’re Halogen - not LED and not HID. The stock bulbs are 3200k and these are 3700k. Slightly whiter but nothing that even comes close to the color of LED headlights which are in the 5-6k range.
They are by no means “super bright” nor should they be blinding any driver under normal driving circumstances. The issue with blinding headlights comes down to multiple factors: higher/raised vehicles, white/blue light, LEDs which are not evenly distributed, and improperly-aimed headlights.
The two pictures were taken with a DSLR set to manual at 3400k. ISO, shutter speed, and f-stop are the same for both pictures. Even with the new headlights shining on a white wall and, again, no difference in any camera setting, the white wall is not overexposed. I guarantee you if I had done the same test with LEDs you wouldn’t see a single detail in the wall. The bottom line is that these headlights are not the blinding headlights that we all see on the road nightly.
If all vehicle owners aimed their headlights appropriately we would see a massive reduction in the blinding headlight phenomenon.