has anyone tried led headlight bulbs? im curious about them would like to go that route next i have hids now but everything else on my truck is led ive been looking at them they are pricey but they are claiming no less than 1200 lumens on the kits ive looked at but most are around 200$

 

1200 lumens is less than your stock halogens.
And they are junk. Just like your HIDs they aren't meant for your stock housings. The optics are totally off. They will throw light every where but where you want it. Don't waste your money. If you wanna spend $200 look into a proper hid retrofit.

 

^^^ Yep.

Junk.

Been discussed on here and the 'other' site extensively - all you needed to do was a bit of research - just a couple examples:

https://www.f150online.com/forums/il...rsion-kit.html

https://www.f150online.com/forums/20...eadlights.html


To add to this TRS abandoned their ill-conceived project of marketing a LED drop-in bulb. For once, rational heads prevailed.

You want LED heads? You can retrofit select OEM LED assemblies - with varying results. Costly too. And depending upon the assembly, not much brighter. Best bang/buck right now is an HID retrofit. That will eventually change.

MGD

 

Did they really? Huh. I just saw a post on their Facebook page yesterday showing and telling how they're working on H series LED replacement bulbs. Now the post is gone.

 

Hi.

http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/show...l=1#post721526

http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/show...l=1#post721646

So - looks like it's not totally dead, but on the back-burner, with more experimentation in the pipe. I'm heartened that this vendor actually listens and is taking the high road, and not pushing a substandard offering to compete with the flood of garbage that is currently available.

MGD

 

That's a whole led housing for fogs. Not drop in PNP LEDs... It's the same thing I retrofitted into my fog lights

 

They deleted the post. I wish I took a screenshot.

It is an actual LED bulb.
They had a picture of a H series LED bulb and said they were working to produce all of them, including H13. So that leads me to believe they would have been intended for more than just fogs.

 

Oh an actual PNP LED. Ok I must have missed that. I figured when you said H you meant the Honda fog lights.

They were making a D2S led PNP. But idk how well that's going.

 

It's not. See above linkies

MGD

 

Oh, okay. I guess I could have specified a little more. But yeah I heard about the Honda fog light housings.

 

when i searched everything i found was from a round a year ago like the link you posted i thought maybe something changed since then...

i guess i will just stick with the hid's...

i had mine go out it ended up being the relay box which also controlled my high beams

i just wired it to a relay but now i have no high beams i wanted to maybe try something new...

 

Not much new in the LED world for aftermarket beside fogs.
If you wanna try something new try a projector retrofit. The output will put your PNP to shame. And you'll have your high beams back.