Do you have some photos of the cut off beam against a wall? It looks good so far!

Great point. I am not sure why JW speaker is not in the market for Toyota.

I mean how hard is it to make a good headlight housing that provides a good beam pattern? I just drove a 2020 Audi A4 with adaptive LEDs! ow man. The brightest I have ever seen! They project very far down the road. Wide beam pattern.

You are absolutely right, no argument. What I have is not ideal. I guess really my point was that despite the less than ideal solution I am running it seems like it is close to what I am seeing on the new headlights. When in fact the correct lens for LEDs should blow mine away. But honestly without a side by side test with the same camera nothing definitive can be concluded.

Plus let’s face it, it doesn’t take much to improve the stock output with any bulb type with higher output.

Would love to be convinced that these new headlights are worth it.

I think my priority right now are the rears. The stock running lights are not very bright either. I drive up into Wyoming in the winter and run into severe weather. I came up on another 4R pretty fast because the rear running lights where not very visible in the thick weather conditions. I installed Baja S2s in the rear with red lens to run as rear fogs after that. Thinking the newer Anzo with sequential turns, but that is another topic for another thread.


Just did some more research and found some as close as it is going to get head to head from Headlight Revolution

Stock
High 820 lux
Low 220 lux

Morimoto 2Stroke
High 1880
Low 570 lux

2014-2018 Toyota 4Runner LED Morimoto 2Stroke Bulbs - 2x Brighter LED Bulbs - YouTube

Morimoto V2 Headlights
High 1190 lux
Low 1040 lux

NEW Gen 2 Morimoto XB Headlights! 2014 - 2020 4Runner | Headlight Revolution - YouTube

Thanks for taking one for the team. They appear to be similar to the V1.

Yeah I’ll try adjusting them and take it for another test. Right out of the box the beam was pointing lower than I expected. From all the pics of the gen1 , I do noticed that the gen2 light beam spreads out a little more. Is it better than my wife’s X5 led? Hell no! I’ll let you guys know how it goes after the adjustments.


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I tried in front of my garage but I live on a pretty steep hill. I’m trying to figure out where can I find a flat place with a wall without looking like I’m gonna rob the place. I try to figure something out.


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On the Civic, be careful not to confuse "brighter" with "better". Honda/Acura isn't known for exceptionally good LED headlights - but here again, we are going from halogen directly to LED.

Try a shopping center parking lot. There is usually a big flat wall with no doors and a mostly flat parking lot.

Take the pictures with front bumper about 25ft away from the wall. Then, stand with your back to the wall at about the level of a car seat (bring a tallish folding chair) and take two pictures - one from dead center and then step about 15 feet to your right (back still to the wall) and take two pictures - one straight ahead and one looking at the car.

Wrangler headlights are sealed beam, so you are basically making one big light bulb, rather than making a housing and a light source.

The Wrangler retrofits (depending on who makes them) are most likely legal - no non-sealed beam retrofits are legal - and for obvious good reason.

TRDJon did a review of the Alpharex Luxx Series VS Pro Series - Toyota 4Runner
Alpharex Luxx Series VS Pro Series - Toyota 4Runner - YouTube
Gives you a good comparison beam shot of the Alpharex Luxx Series VS Pro Series . Would be nice to see them compared to the V2 morimotos

I don’t know if you guys have ever been on the receiving end of those headlights, but they are extremely blinding, especially outside of the city on dark desert nights. And that’s in a lifted 4Runner, I feel bad for car drivers. I’m not sure how they even get approved as OEM equipment.

Brighter and wider does not equal better. Effectively lighting up your direction of travel is better. You don’t need to light up 3 miles down the road and +/- 60 degrees to the sides like you're driving in the middle of the day. People out here also think their LED rigid and Baja lights are running/headlights and I wish I could run them off the road.

Always blows me away how definitive people are on this forum in regards to products they have never used. I can’t speak for the Audi, but my daughters Civic has LEDs that are only offered on very few versions, Touring, Type R, etc. they ARE very good with a very sharp and low cut off. I can’t imagine them blinding anyone. Having a teen driver being able to see better is a good thing, for everyone. After owning two Acura’s and a couple Honda’s, they are the best yet, blow away the MDX I had.

From the video, you can clearly see the Luxx series has the blind/dark spot on the sides. The same issue that everyone had with the Gen1 Morimoto; rightfully so. I feel the Gen2 addressed it, to an extent. Overall I was indifferent with the light output but after some adjustment, I'm good with keeping it.

These aren’t the direct competitors to the Morimoto V2 headlights. I would say the Nova series headlight is the most similar. AlphaRex NOVA Series LED Headlights: Install + Lighting Comparisons (2014-2020 Toyota 4Runner) [4K] - YouTube


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If you get a chance could you find a dark area, hold the camera front top center of the steering wheel and snap a couple pics? It's helpful to do before and after but the ship sailed already.
Heres an example:
Headlight before/after comparisons
Heres my stock H11 vs gen 1 morimoto