Yeah I’m going to wait to see how those stack up, but as I mentioned in the thread on them, they only back the lights for 2 years. That’s not much confidence in the product you make and that worries me for $1200, especially when if the led chip goes the whole damn headlight has to be replaced. Madness

I've been following along because I like these lights...as far as fitment goes, the OEM lights have the same gaps.

Here's the light output of the Morimoto XB LED headlight assemblies. This was taken last night at 10:30p on the 5 freeway with barely any traffic and no overhead street lamps. Don't know what you guys are expecting, but for LED headlights, this light output is super impressive. If you need more light output than this, maybe some guys should see an optometrist.

Plenty of light for me and comparable to my last three vehicles with stock LED 5700K from the factory. When pointed correctly, they provide plenty of output.

People need to also know that LEDs operate differently than HIDs. HIDs cast a wider output vs LEDs with LEDs even from the factory having strict cutoffs.

(Sorry in advance for the blurred image, I was driving at 80mph and felt like snapping a picture when I noticed how much output there was on a dark freeway. Felt cute, might delete later...)

High or Low beams?

low beams

It lights up the area directly in front of the car (weighed to the left) nicely. Since that area is so brightly lit, your brain has to fight to look at the blob of light farther down the road.

Update on the XD / Morimoto saga from me:

After several of the posts here, XD responded to my emails and overnighted a replacement set of headlights to me for my 2020. I thought that was a nice touch. It'll be probably a week before I can get them installed however.

I connected with Morimoto via phone last week for a warranty claim on my wife's headlights for her 2019. Took some back and forth but they processed the warranty claim today. Oddly, I received an email from XD saying they were handling the claim order from Morimoto.

I'm not really sure what to say about that, the names of the people handling the tech support responses via email were the same for both Morimoto and XD - so maybe XD is really just handling everything and Morimoto doesn't get involved other than manufacturing the product?

Anyway - hoping whatever the failure was has been fixed and I don't have the LEDs out again on the new sets. I think it's pretty clearly a related issue with 4 of 4 lights in my household having failed LEDs in the same spot.

Can someone help with exact steps to properly adjust the lights? Any proven methods?

Good to hear they are working thru this. Hate to see a great company go under just because short staffed

Youtube has lots of videos. basic is, find a flat level area, pull up to the wall, mark the height of the light and distance between the 2, mark wall with tape. Back up 25' then besure your side to side is set, then beam should be just below the tape marker. If your anal like me, not all flat ground is level @ 25' so I used a laser level to validate elevations

Close. Here is the actual procedure. The link goes to a printable PDF

Damn

My DRL strip is dimming when I press on my brakes firmly. Is anyone else experiencing this? It's subtle, but can be seen in the reflection of my door in my garage. Happens when the DRL is at full and half brightness. Can someone check to see if theirs does it as well? All of my connections are fine. It's almost like a very fast flicker but looks like a fast dimming when I see the reflection.

A fast way of checking for this is to turn on the DRL in your garage while the garage lights are out. The DRL puts out an obnoxious amount of light, so changes in brightness are pretty easy to see. Press on the brakes firmly several times and check for a "flicker/dimming" from the DRL light against a wall.

At least I don't have any burned out LEDs.

Kustom 54 FTW

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For anyone who has an aftermarket steel bumper that has the straight line cut (like CBI), are you guys able to remove the headlight without removing the whole bumper? I'm hoping i can remove that upper bumper valence that remains and sneak a wrench in there.