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Old 12-04-2021, 06:05 PM #16
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Isnt everything made in china? For $1500.00 Morimoto has a very high failure rate seems about 20%, Even good working Morimotos have a poor beam throw. But anything automotive on EBay has a guarantee backed by Ebay. Its just the time of removing the bumper at least 2x. So its $1500K and I get a 100% bad light pattern and good chance of LED going out. Or 1/8th that price and ? , thats why I asked if anyone had them.
The Gen2 Morimotos actually have a really good beam pattern and throw and are currently the only complete housings on the market that give the OEM LED/Bi-LED housing a good run. According to the data collected by CrashnBurn's massive TW thread on LED/HID/Halogen testing. Both are pretty close to performance, each with it's pros and cons.

OE housings have a warmer color temp and softer cutoff which would be better for anyone sensitive to that light/dark contrast. Whereas Gen2 Morimotos have slightly better CRI with peak output and sharper cutoff. That could bother some though.

The Gen1s are another story, much higher failure rate with pretty bad dead spots and performance.

However, Anzo headlights you originally posted have been run by a couple members. You could probably do a search and dig up some of those posts.

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This thread makes me sad.

I shall return with pictures of my Gen2 Morimoto's I had installed on my '18 Limited later today. I would absolutely shill this brand so hard for anyone interested in upgrading their shitty stock headlights.

Knock on wood but loving my Gen2 Morimoto's a lot. No issues. It is certainly worth the purchase price and I'd do it again in a heartbeat if I had a 2nd 5th gen vehicle instead of my backup 4th gen.
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Old 12-05-2021, 10:15 PM #19
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This thread makes me sad.

I shall return with pictures of my Gen2 Morimoto's I had installed on my '18 Limited later today. I would absolutely shill this brand so hard for anyone interested in upgrading their shitty stock headlights.

Knock on wood but loving my Gen2 Morimoto's a lot. No issues. It is certainly worth the purchase price and I'd do it again in a heartbeat if I had a 2nd 5th gen vehicle instead of my backup 4th gen.
Dood, just ignore the haters or wanna-be internet experts or china/DD crybabies who get pissed off that you don't wear the same color tighty whitey's that they wear.

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Anyone bought the Morimoto head light clones sold on ebay? Since Morimotos are about $1500 and have issues I was looking at the 1:1 clones sold on eBay and using good bulbs for the lamps. I did a search but only thing I found was threads on the Morimotos and all the issues. My main worries are fit since you need to remove the bumper to install head lights.
I just installed these last month and am happy, especially for the price. Fits just the same as the OEM so nothing to be concerned about with installation.

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-They come with H7 lowbeams.
- I needed to re-aim my beams but that maybe due to my lift vs anything with the lights themselves.
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Those are not morimoto clones. they literally look nothing like morimotos to even consider them clones. Thats a different companies aftermarket headlight. BUT, I have seen an actual knock off of the morimotos on allibaba but the price isn't much cheaper than getting the real ones (they were still like a grand). Also, you don't need to remove your bumper to change headlights.
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Those are not morimoto clones. they literally look nothing like morimotos to even consider them clones. Thats a different companies aftermarket headlight. BUT, I have seen an actual knock off of the morimotos on allibaba but the price isn't much cheaper than getting the real ones (they were still like a grand).
You mean some Chinese companies knock off other Chinese products and sell them on the internet? I'm so totally shocked! Oh wait, I said that in my earlier post(s) and got jumped on by somebody. Never mind. Another inconvenient truth.
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The day is here, folks.

Here are the pictures of the Morimoto's. NSFW WARNING!! ;)

The VERY last picture is a picture of low beams enabled. The picture before that with trash bags is the hi-beams picture


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Dood, just ignore the haters or wanna-be internet experts or china/DD crybabies who get pissed off that you don't wear the same color tighty whitey's that they wear.

Enjoy your ride and your mods in good health, and be sure to post pics!!!!

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The day is here, folks.

Here are the pictures of the Morimoto's. NSFW WARNING!! ;)

The VERY last picture is a picture of low beams enabled. The picture before that with trash bags is the hi-beams picture






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True, but some people on the internet do actually know what they're talking about. In fact some of us have even been to China - many times - and know first-hand how business is done there.
Agree I go to China once a year (except since Covid) for a LED light manufacturing convention. People dont like to hear lights made for 1/20th the price are exact a copy and/or made by the same plant. I sell industrial LED lights for a living, one of the plants we uses sells to Japan and Japan repackages. I got flamed on another 4x4 board when I told them a very popular expensive off road light brand is manufactured in China but assembled elsewhere and sold a NOT made in China. But hey everyone here is reading this from a product made 100% or from 90% parts made in China. But yea keep thinking made in China sucks.


PS the lights I posted arent the 1:1 just to give a idea because what I thought would occur did, didnt want people flaming the seller.
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