headlight options

[zakkb787]

Dang there's too many options:banghead: the firewires are a little out of the budget. I guess it might be between the morimoto and flux beam x from opt7. 250 5 start reviews and none under 4 starts has to mean something with the opt7... but the morimoto is a very well respected name. Ugh but the ddm seem good too

 

[pornstar dancin]

Does anyone have before and after pics of any brand led

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[Tothemax]

has anyone put any of said led bulbs in the 15-17 chevy headlights and can say if they had to cut mod ect to get them in?

 

[NinjaMax]

has anyone put any of said led bulbs in the 15-17 chevy headlights and can say if they had to cut mod ect to get them in?

Just installed the ddm 40 w, hid bulbs in my 17 a little bit ago. The clips from the ballast to the stock plug is a bitch to connect, not sure why. They are heavy and feel like quality lights bulbs. The heatsink fan is loud enough to hear if the trucks off and lights are on standing by the gril, and you can feel a very very faint vibration from the fans on the fan shroud. Last thing is the factory light weather cover would not fit back over the connection cause the wiring from the back of the bulb comes strait out and not angled down like the stock bulbs..not sure that's a problem or not. It MIGHT have but I didn't want to force it..
Light output is fantastic tho! I'll put up a pic once the sin goes down.

 

[zakkb787]

I just installed my morimoto 2stroke bulbs. Will do a write up after it gets dark to see actual light output. However side by side they don't really look as bright as my eBay cheapies

 

[NinjaMax]

I just installed my morimoto 2stroke bulbs. Will do a write up after it gets dark to see actual light output. However side by side they don't really look as bright as my eBay cheapies

:thumb: GM couldn't spring for an led-hid in a loaded 60k $ pickup, so it should be a world of difference coming from the stock holigen bulbs.

 

[zakkb787]

:thumb: GM couldn't spring for an led-hid in a loaded 60k $ pickup, so it should be a world of difference coming from the stock holigen bulbs.

Very very true. However it's slightly disappointing that a well known high quality bulb make which cost $120 honestly looks about the same as my $40 eBay China specials

 

[kubitza123]

Out of all things to mod or do to a truck I have yet to figure out why anyone would pick the lights to spend money on. If you can't see well enough with the headlights on 2010+ trucks money would be better spent on a trip to the eye doctor. Sorry for not being positive but I wished they outlaw them since they blind the shit out everyone even on low beam.

 

[AZlml]

Out of all things to mod or do to a truck I have yet to figure out why anyone would pick the lights to spend money on. If you can't see well enough with the headlights on 2010+ trucks money would be better spent on a trip to the eye doctor. Sorry for not being positive but I wished they outlaw them since they blind the shit out everyone even on low beam.

Couldn't agree more. To each his own, but damn they are annoying.

 

[OregonDMAX]

Lotta blind mother****ers out there making aftermarket lights their first mod... **** I still got stock bulbs and never use my high beams and I'm still alive, and I drive home at 3am every night from work...:roflmao:

I do wanna run those douchebags off the road with hid bulbs in non-projector housings though...:thumb:

 

[kubitza123]

Lmfao, glad I'm not the only one. Starting to think I was maybe just getting old.

 

[Forever]

Lotta blind mother****ers out there making aftermarket lights their first mod... **** I still got stock bulbs and never use my high beams and I'm still alive, and I drive home at 3am every night from work...:roflmao:

I do wanna run those douchebags off the road with hid bulbs in non-projector housings though...:thumb:

I'm one of those douchebags...

 

[NinjaMax]

I'm one of those douchebags...

Yep I'm right there with ya:thumb:

 

[zakkb787]

Led headlights have no hot spot in the beam. It's evenly distributed so I don't believe I've ever got flashed at.

 

[zakkb787]

I just ordered the opt7 flux beam x bulbs. Supposedly both the morimoto and opt7 are 30w. We will see which look better. The 40w ddm sabers are nice to but I'm not laying a restocking fee if they aren't all they are supposed to be

 

[OregonDMAX]

I'm one of those douchebags...

Yep I'm right there with ya:thumb:

You guys don't realize how bright they are in a bad way you might as well just drive with your high beams on because that's what it looks like being on the receiving end

 

[Chevy1925]

Led headlights have no hot spot in the beam. It's evenly distributed so I don't believe I've ever got flashed at.

Negative, the light is scattered more. The lense in the headlight is designed to focus halogen light and the brightness they put out. When you start upping the power significantly, the lense can not properly focus it.

Look at some comparisons of rigid lights vs Chinese lights. The Chinese lights will not be near as focused in on a point as the rigid. What I mean by this is how much things are lighted up around the focus point of the light. Now take that and amplify it a whole bunch and that is what hid and led lights do in a halogen housing. Great idea for a fog, not good for distance. Nor is it nice on oncoming drivers.

That said, I still run leds in my tracker headlights cause omg did the stock halogen suck. I'm also out in the desert or urban areas a lot more at night then I am in town. The led light bars I have on it are great for long distance light

 

[zakkb787]

Negative, the light is scattered more. The lense in the headlight is designed to focus halogen light and the brightness they put out. When you start upping the power significantly, the lense can not properly focus it.

Look at some comparisons of rigid lights vs Chinese lights. The Chinese lights will not be near as focused in on a point as the rigid. What I mean by this is how much things are lighted up around the focus point of the light. Now take that and amplify it a whole bunch and that is what hid and led lights do in a halogen housing. Great idea for a fog, not good for distance. Nor is it nice on oncoming drivers.

That said, I still run leds in my tracker headlights cause omg did the stock halogen suck. I'm also out in the desert or urban areas a lot more at night then I am in town. The led light bars I have on it are great for long distance light

This is interesting. I always thought that since the led was a side lit bulb that's why the focus was different. Hid and halogen emit light from the center which I believed created the hot spot. Because boy did my hid lights have a hot spot too. But the led there's no focused beam otters which I like. Either way. I like them. And to the people who don't I bet you money they are no worse than the god awful Toyota and Lexus and whatever else vehicles with factory hid and projectors that leave blind spots in my eyes.

 

[Dozerboy]

Lmfao, glad I'm not the only one. Starting to think I was maybe just getting old.

Or maybe you just like to complain. you should get your eyes checked for light sensitivity too. Lol

I've just about never been flashed with my hids in the proper projector housing. I been alerted to hazards in the road sooner possibly saving my families and my life. I'll take that trade off since you can be blinded by improperly adjusted stock headlights.


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[NC-smokinlmm]

I get flashed at with stock gmc hids in the 16, the led sabers in my 1500 I never ever get flashed. The hids in my LMM I got flashed every other car, I too believe led is easier on the eyes...