LED Headlights

[Mark D]

Those look nice. The description is great too. The only thing they fail to mention is construction. I love everything about my LED’s except the plastic lens. I suspect the lens will scratch, cloud or yellow before the LED wares out. Why can’t they make them out of glass?

The description says "UV treated polycarbonate" which typically means once the coating is blasted off by road grit the underlying plastic will start to yellow and fade. I wish they were glass as well.

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[FABombjoy]

Holley now offers LED 4x6 headlights offering the OE look that JW does not. Anyone try these?

Wow, those look authentic!

Switching to the JW Speaker 8800s was amazing compared to even the Hella housings. Having a completely engineered lamp module makes a huge difference and I'd expect the Holley to be similar.

[Timeless]

The description says "UV treated polycarbonate" which typically means once the coating is blasted off by road grit the underlying plastic will start to yellow and fade. I wish they were glass as well.

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Can always apply PPF to them.

[82DMC12]

Those Holley lenses look great. I'm tempted but I want someone else to do it first.... haha. I'd definitely get them PPF'ed.

[Timeless]

Those Holley lenses look great. I'm tempted but I want someone else to do it first.... haha. I'd definitely get them PPF'ed.

If my car was in my possession I'd buy them yesterday.

[Mark D]

Can always apply PPF to them.

You're right, that's probably the best way to go in this case.

[Timeless]

Those Holley lenses look great. I'm tempted but I want someone else to do it first.... haha. I'd definitely get them PPF'ed.

Pulled the trigger and will post photos once they're installed and tested.

[mike123]

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?

I really enjoyed this write-up and this was the very first thing I did to my car a couple of years ago. That said, the cheap glass casings on Amazon are not good in my opinion. They scatter the light so much that they are impossible to aim without blinding oncoming traffic. The LEDs I happened to buy on Amazon as well had a similar issue. Putting both together, my headlights were basically floodlights.

I purchased a headlight kit from Chris Miles which was Hella housings and Morimoto LEDs. They give a much much better cutoff, similar to any other modern car I have driven. Attached are some comparison pictures in my garage at a distance of about 4 feet from headlights to white backdrop.

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3-6-25 Hella and Amazon headlight comparison (1).jpg

[Bitsyncmaster]

I used the cheap glass housings and forgot which LED I got. Later I bought one Hella housing and my comparison found no difference. Maybe the LED is the controlling factor.

[mike123]

Thanks for sharing, that's another helpful data point. In the pictures above, I did try all combinations of LED and housing that I had. It looked to me like the housing was more important than the LED, but both did seem to matter. From what I can tell as well, the low beam "shutters" on the LEDs do vary across all of them, so it may depend on specific model. The Morimoto shutter does seem to be the most round and reflective, so it makes me think they are putting a bit more into the engineering than the cheaper LEDs.