thennen
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Gotcha. Being an old guy, I wouldn't be able to react to a deer jumping out in front of me that closely unless I was just idling along - LOL!
PSA: Your Amazon Hi-beam LED headlights are garbage.
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Well if nothing else you've proved my original point quite well so thanks I guess
angerbot, What do you think about just doing an H9 conversion instead? We can easily fit them by removing the bulb tab.
H9 bulbs will indeed outperform the H11 bulb swaps but at the cost of increased glare. They'll exceed what is street legal so I wouldn't recommend them.
FWIW I've been running the GE Megalight +130s and I live in the mountains where there are no street lights. I don't feel I need more light, certainly not enough to justify blinding other road users.
From my understanding, the H9s may be alright if you aim them downward slightly, but I have not tried it/seen data.
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H9 bulbs will indeed outperform the H11 bulb swaps but at the cost of increased glare. They'll exceed what is street legal so I wouldn't recommend them.
FWIW I've been running the GE Megalight +130s and I live in the mountains where there are no street lights. I don't feel I need more light, certainly not enough to justify blinding other road users.
From my understanding, the H9s may be alright if you aim them downward slightly, but I have not tried it/seen data.
Thank you so much! Your picture and data is fantastic.
Cisco Kid
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H9 bulbs will indeed outperform the H11 bulb swaps but at the cost of increased glare. They'll exceed what is street legal so I wouldn't recommend them.
FWIW I've been running the GE Megalight +130s and I live in the mountains where there are no street lights. I don't feel I need more light, certainly not enough to justify blinding other road users.
From my understanding, the H9s may be alright if you aim them downward slightly, but I have not tried it/seen data.
With all the research I’ve done on lighting over the years, I still allowed myself to get suckered into trying a set of the Diode Dynamics SL1’s in my 2013. It only took two weeks before I pulled them and went back to halogen. The color temp made my eyes feel strained and they certainly didn’t light up the road any better. Currently I am running a set of the Osram Night Breaker Laser H11’s and have no complaints. It was the post on hidplanet showing what you posted here that steered me toward the Osram bulbs. Another downside to running H9’s is that they produce more heat due to being a higher wattage bulb. With that in mind, I didn’t want to run the risk of having to purchase new headlight housings due to burned reflectors.
Senorlechero
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Forgive me if this has been asked as I didn’t comb through all 5 pages of this.
Where do LED conversions like what Kustom 54 lighting does fall?
Where do LED conversions like what Kustom 54 lighting does fall?
Cisco Kid
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This thread is pretty much about led replacement bulbs for the factory headlight assemblies. The Kustom 54 units use Morimoto MLED projectors which are purpose built to get the most performance out of the led chips. Based on that fact alone, the MLED projectors will probably outperform any drop in bulb in the factory housings.
Senorlechero
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That makes sense, thanks.
I wasn’t sure if would be considered the same since they’re going into a light housing not made for LEDs, but since those lights are essentially self contained the housing doesn’t matter?
LakeRunr
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Does anyone know why GE Megalight +130 H11s are impossible to find right now? No one has them in stock.
gp55445
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I bought my low beams from Headlightrevolution.com. They posted a YouTube video where they tested dozens of aftermarket LEDs and found a set that had the correct throw and cut off. Yes they are bright, but my wife’s 2019 Subaru with stock low beams gets flashed all the time. I was flashed maybe twice in 18 months.
97BlackAckCL
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Plus, MLED projectors are designed with cutoffs to not blind oncoming drivers
nevada
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i run my fogs always. they put light against the road close to the vehicle. ive toggled them on/off a few times to see how it is, and it IS better with them on.
Cisco Kid
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Check out the Osram Night Breaker Lasers or the GE Mega Light +130’s for a good H11 replacement. Either one should be under $40 on Amazon. For the 9005 highs you can easily modify a set of 9011’s. So far I’ve been very happy with the Osram’s and 9011’s. Both are brighter than the standard H11 and 9005 setup.
This is too many pages to comb through, for us headlight naive people, are those direct drop in replacement bulbs that are brighter than stock? Not LEDs or HIDs or anything, but halogens h11 replacement bulbs?
And brighter, I mean lumens, not color temp. I just want a brighter head light, not a blue headlight, or anything like that. Just a brighter headlight.
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Cisco Kid
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The Osram and GE bulbs are both direct drop in halogen bulbs that are brighter than standard H11’s. The 9011’s fit in place of the 9005’s for the highs with a slight modification to one of mounting tabs.
thennen
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But only for you.
ElectroBoy
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True.
So many drivers think that driving with fog lights on helps them see better. So they leave them on always, in foggy, wet, snowy, dry conditions and even during the day. Now that winter is here with wet roads the low illumination glare of fog lights reflected off shiny roads is really annoying even in daylight. Combine that with misaligned low beams, crappy LED replacements, overly bright HIDs, and generally misaligned headlights, and it makes for a shitty nighttime driving experience. Even in a high profile vehicle like a 4R. Imagine what it’s like for drivers of lower slung sedans.
Everyone, please be courteous to other drivers; use proper headlights, align them correctly, use fog lights only in foggy conditions. Because we all are “other drivers”.
For more info on fog lights read this Daniel Stern article:
Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply
Here’s an excerpt:
“Fog lamps of any type should not be used in dry weather. Leaving the fog lamps on at all times does not actually improve the lighting safety performance or the driver's ability to see, though many people do so in the mistaken belief that they can see better this way at normal road speeds in dry weather. In fact, a systematic study done by one of North America's preëminent traffic safety research institutes shows that in the United States more people inappropriately use their front fog lamps in dry weather than use them properly in poor weather.
Why? Because we human beings generally can't accurately tell how well or how poorly we see. We have subjective impressions, reactions, and feelings about how "good" or "bad" our headlamps are, and they feel very real to us, but they're very far out of line with the objective, measurable, real lighting performance and seeing ability. It's not that we're fooling ourselves, it's that our visual systems just aren't equipped to correctly assess how well or how poorly we can see. The primary driver for a subjective impression of "good" headlighting is foreground light—and remember, that's what fog lamps produce—but foreground light is very far down the list of factors that go into the actual, real safety performance of the car's lighting system; that is, how well it actually lets the driver see what must be seen to avoid a crash. In clear conditions, though it makes us feel (falsely) more secure, more foreground light is not a good thing, it's a bad thing. Of course, some foreground light is necessary so you can use your peripheral vision to see where you are relative to the road edges, the lane markings and that pothole 20 feet in front of your left wheels.”
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