I've toyed with the idea of getting LED headlights. I'd like to get ones where all four have low and high beams. Anyone do this and if so which ones did you get and what modifications did you have to do?
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I've toyed with the idea of getting LED headlights. I'd like to get ones where all four have low and high beams. Anyone do this and if so which ones did you get and what modifications did you have to do?
Shannon
I did with some demon eyes ones. several pictures in the thread http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?15...t-Availability
Here you go:
Glass casings (order 2 pairs): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Hikari LED Headlights (order 2 pairs): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Wiring Harnesses (Nearly plug and play): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
For the low beams, it is completely plug and play. Absolutely zero modifications needed. For the high beams, we took the wiring harness bought off of Amazon, took the wire responsible for turning on the low beams, spliced it with the wire responsible for activating the high beams, and then introduced the modified Amazon wiring harness to the car's wiring harness (ZERO modifications done to the car's original wiring harness). That way, when the high beams are activated, the LEDs that were unused in the glass casing for the high beams were activated as well! Why let the "low beam " LEDs within the high beam glass casing go to waste?
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Actual snippet of a conversation from Sept 2013:
Me: Eddie, I can't wait to get the car back when you're done with it.
Eddie: Yeah, you'll be able to give the car gas, and it won't be - like - embarrassing....
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Another option here
http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?16...-lighting-mods
I missed the part where they wanted all 4 with hi/lo. Mine are fully sealed though. I had semi-sealed before but that allows moisture to get in. I did still have to modify the bucket with the semi sealed ones.
Here are some photos of the 4 sided new LEDs on the driver's side inner light (High beam) and the old 2 sided LED on the passenger side inner light(High beam). As you can see a big difference in the pattern. The old LED is more of a point of light. I wonder how the new ones will work as the low beam lights as far as aiming them. I also wonder if the housing would have different patterns from a better manufacture housing.
I took different exposures to try to get the result in the photo.
Edit:
I just bench tested one of the 4 sided LEDs and it looks better aiming the one light on my wall in that there is a flat light cutoff in the pattern. Also the low beam does move that cutoff position lower than the high beam. Don't know how it does that. So maybe using my garage door or the two lights at the same time gave me a poor test.
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So are these black plastic strips that go between the lights just to remove the chrome look of the headlight benzyl? I was thinking of painting my benzyls black.
Dave M vin 03572
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