Brighter Lights
Does anybody out there have any experience and advice regarding LED mainbeam/dipped headlight bulbs, please?
A colleague is smitten by aurorabulbs.com and has recommended them to me.
It seems that they are a simple fit, draw less current, give more light and produce less heat than the current conventional bulbs.
Winter draws on (Scottish Highlands) and I would like to upgrade the lights on my 1988 460.
Although their performance seems brilliant they are costly and I would like to know more before proceeding.
Many thanks, as ever, Nick.
P.S. I know that, technically, bulbs are planted in the soil and I should refer to the above as "lamps". However, old habits die hard.
do you have any pictures or links?
generally, LED lamps are a little larger than conventional lamps, as they are composed of many little LEDs, so I'd check they fit properly and also see if there is a guarantee with them, as some LEDs have early failures.
Probably not totally legal, either?
Here's a good thread on some alternatives - if you're going for LED might as well get the proper housing and lens designed for that light source:
http://www.pointedthree.com/disc/forums/showthread.php?tid=20980
Fitting non-halogen (LED, Xenon, etc) bulbs in a halogen housing is not advisable, according to this article:
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/Hid/conversions/conversion...
Please do come back and tell us (a) if they really were plug and play and (b) how much brighter they turn out to be.
Just seen this post, I've had led bulbs in my w463 headlights for the last 6 months and they are awesome. I bought mine from ebay. The only mistake I made was with the colour temperature as mine are slightly blue / purple. If I bought again I would have 4300 k ones. I have replaced nearly all my bulbs for leds as I figured they are fit and forget and use much less power. Cheers Mud
Hi Nick
Your lights seem the business. You said you were no good at electronics???. As my daughter said once. Are you kidding me. Yes i was lol
Were you kidding me???
So h4 headlamps and an easy fit?. I am bothered about headlamp dazzle towards other traffic, Or am i?????
If not set correct with proper lights its not good but with proper uk lights in rhd issue ther is no issue
I see trucks with poorly set headlights that you dont want to make contact with. Cars with shitty headlamps fitted by boy racers and dole dossers that are probably not insured anyway with headlamps that are far from correctly set even roughly to be legal.
Pimping their cars with cheap lights off ebay from china no doubt
Spotlight in cigarette lighter out of window helps but in winter your hand gets cold lol
Send full details of kit please
G
Hi Nick, looks very interesting, I'm going to change mine, stupid question though, are the side lamp bulbs different to the main bulbs, if so what ones did you order? Thanks Paul
Lol, forget my last post!! Just read your posts properly!!!
Cheers Nick.
Nights are fair drawing in so just ordered a set, plus side lights.
Tom
Thanks for the heads up. Just fitted a set to use in the rurals. Couldnt see a thing recently at night. Like driving in daytime now.
The sidelights wouldnt work for me. They wouldnt stay on. I'm going to try some non Canbus types as I dont have it. I think theyre sensitive to the connectors as standard work no problem. I will probably replace the H4 connectors with new ones as they are quite exposed like you say> best to clean it all with switch/contact cleaner I think.