downsr
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Has anyone converted there h4 headlights to led. Can you just replace the bulbs with led bulbs. Or do you replace the whole light. Where can you buy the bulbs or light
I'm tryna quit, LOLYou are 100% true but do you always have to be so right?
as for the headlights by JW Speaker; do you have to buy those lamp adjuster assemblies like Amazon recommends?
I'm worried about the lights pushing to far forward in my 66' Barracuda if I use them.
Even the Trucklite units ( I installed for a client) were so/so. At night the difference between high and low beam seemed very little. I worry about oncoming traffic on a dark night. They did have a very "military" feel when installed in his truck
Question for you. Why couldnt a guy take the 7 inch housing from a late model Jeep Wrangler with a good set of quality bulbs and put it in their A body? I did some research, dimesion wise, it'll fit, just have to make a harness and use the jeep bulbs. Surely that has to be better than the old sealed ones and much cheaper than 500 bucks in lights?Nice idea, fun to think about, but halogen lamps need to use halogen bulbs or they don't work right—period.
The "LED bulbs" now flooding the market are not a legitimate, safe, effective, or legal product. No matter whose name is on them or what the vendor claims, these are a fraudulent scam. They are not capable of producing even a fraction of the amount of light produced by the filament bulb they supposedly replace, let alone producing it in the right pattern for the lamp's optics to work.
Same goes for "HID kits" in halogen-bulb headlamps or fog/auxiliary lamps (any kit, any lamp, any vehicle no matter whether it's a car, truck, motorcycle, etc.). They do not work safely or effectively, which is why they are illegal. See here -- the particulars are different for LED vs. HID, but the principles and problems are the same overall.
There's a ton of junk on the market, but there are also legitimate LED headlamps, good ones that work well, last long, are safe and legal: the 701C from Peterson is good. The Truck-Lite unit is good. The king daddy of them all is the JW Speaker unit in chrome or black. All these are DOT-certified, made in America, and take less power than the original sealed beams so the original wiring is plenty adequate.
Question for you. Why couldnt a guy take the 7 inch housing from a late model Jeep Wrangler with a good set of quality bulbs and put it in their A body?
Surely that has to be better than the old sealed ones
and much cheaper than 500 bucks in lights?
I have an 08 and it doesnt bother me lol. Course I'm coming from a 2nd gen Ram that truly has shitty lights for comparison. I am however, wanting to upgrade my Jeep's so I was considering putting those on the dart. It's not that I want cheap, I just want something better thats gonna last.You could, with socket adaptors, but those headlamps suck. They're pretty to look at, but their performance is the pits. A substantial amount of the food in my fridge is there because '07-'17 Wrangler owners rightly hate trying to drive at night with the stock headlamps.
Don't bet!
There are plenty of good options for upgrade headlamps that don't cost a pile of money. If all you want is cheap and decent, the only sealed beam worth using is this one. If what you want is cheap and decent replaceable-bulb, that's this one with these bulbs and a good relay harness and careful aim job (that part's important no matter what lamps you have).
im actually running thos every bulbs in my jeep as we speak.Yeah, Chrysler started "getting religion" on lights in '11 -- that year I saw a bunch of dramatically better lighting on the cars at the Detroit auto show, called up my bud in Chrysler's lighting department and said "I'm not complaining, but what happened?", and he said "Oh, Fiat bought us and they care about lights, so now we have money to spend on lights". But not every vehicle got good lights starting in '11. The Jeeps (except for the fancypants Grand Chicory) and the Ram trucks still got/still get not-very-good lights. :-(
If you're wanting to try out the Wrangler lights on your A-body, put in these bulbs...but also keep in mind these headlamps are a decade old, they don't start out very good, and they don't age very well.
The 7" round size was introduced in 1939 and is still the headlamp format with the biggest installed base, and there's a decent-to-excellent lamp to fit whatever budget anyone might have.
Unfortunately, there's also a mountain of junk!