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Oh, it was! For a short time, for a few already-wealthy people.

You laugh, but consider the Chinese car brand Chery. Three guesses why they made up that name, and the first two don't count. See also: "Haier" Chinese appliances, which suck out loud. Even their name is a cheap knockoff of the second half of Liebherr, a legitimate company with a history of...

Anyone else notice something weird and incongruous (to North American eyes) about these chases in a 1973 movie? Everyone's buckled in! They're all wearing seatbelts!

Looks are a matter of personal opinion, of course. Personally, I think 72Duster440's car looks appropriate with those headlamps, and the similar-looking Truck-Lite 27s in @j_anderson 's '72 Dart (pics) look at home in that car, too. Most of the very good American-made JW Speaker LED headlamps...

Yes, I want that all, too. And six desserts. And a big stash of gold coins at the back of the freezer, behind the ice trays where I never looked before. …and an aluminum Slant-6 cylinder head with fast-burn combustion chambers…

So OK, they're offering a choice between German Shepherd ѕhіt and Shih Tzu ѕhіt. Please read the That trick never works, even with real halogen headlamps link I posted; "LED bulbs" in halogen headlamps are categorically not a legitimate, effective, safe, or legal thing.

Well, there's some math involved here. Y'gotta decide whether you'll be spending more time in front of the headlamps, looking at them, or behind the headlamps, driving by the light they provide. Then multiply that by the number of people on the planet who will notice what your headlamps look...

…at the alternator, yeah, and roughly that across the battery. But by the time it goes through thin wires and iffy terminals and tiny switch contacts and marginal grounds for the headlamps, it's gonna be a lot lower, hence the P = V × I and relays and stuff. You and I both know that, is the...

Those are ѕhіtty Chinese trinkets shaped like H4 halogen headlights, with ѕhіtty Chinese "LED bulbs" crammed in (that trick never works, not even with real halogen headlamps). If you want to keep your bodies (car and self) in one piece, steer clear of this fraudulent junk and pick real headlamps...

The design voltage for all automotive lamps in the US and Canadian regulations is 12.8v. Lifespan testing (not regulated; it's purely for commercial purposes) is done at 14.0v because that makes the testing easier (takes less time) and represents a worst-case scenario (vehicle with hyperactive...

I don't see anything the matter with your explanation, @72bluNblu .

Hah! I hope this screws up their books as much as it can. I might choose something odd like 7¢ to make the amount wind up uneven.

This old thread is № 1. № 2: About 25 years ago I was moving away from the suburbs of Denver. Over many years of living there, I had built up a lot of loose change. I gathered it all up and it big-filled a gallon-size freezer bag. I took the bag of change and a few checks to my bank, a local...

KITTY!!!

…and then his fanboi brigade went parrotting it all over the internet, and then people who think googling is "doing research" go Hey, yeah, I've read that same thing!, and the myth gets amplified and re-amplified and re-re-amp-amplified. Tony's goal is not to find or tell the truth, it's to...

A decent start here.

…and now I've got the results back from more formal beam evaluation, this lamp does move into first place on my list of LED 7" round headlamps.

Totally up to you, depending on how much night driving you do, whether it's mostly in-town with lots of streetlights or in a higher-demand situation, and how happy you are with your present setup.

They sell both kinds, in crap quality, but the ones I tested—and the ones in the screen cap you posted—are LED. I've been known to know the difference every now and then, a little around the edges.

I've eyeballed a few new(ish)-on-the-market LED 7" headlamps, and one out of three of them gets a thumbs-up. That's the Philips H6024LED. It's made in Taiwan, rather nicely per my inspection, and it appears they picked one of the better beam specifications in the regulation to engineer/build to...

None. The Truck-Lite and Peterson don't look as space-shippy as the JW Speaker, but there is no effective or safe LED headlamp that looks like an olde-tyme sealed beam or H4. Which kind of sucks, but on the other hand…seems to me if it needs to look damn near showroom-stock, it's probably not...

That's exactly what I'm talking about: a pathetic Chinese trinket shaped like an H4 halogen headlamp, with a not-even-close-to-grownup-reality "LED bulb". These give a random spray of light; not capable of providing even minimally adequate safety performance. People swear by them? Yep, that's...

First make sure you're asking the question you mean to ask. LED headlamps aren't necessarily good headlamps, and good headlamps aren't necessarily LED headlamps. There are some excellent halogens available, and some hyperpremium (and hyper-expensive) BiXenons. If you want LEDs, be careful...

These LED headlamps sold by Holley are sourced through an intermediary company out of China, and promoted along the lines of modern performance with vintage looks. I had high hopes for them, but they turned out as a complete let-down. If you drive your car at night at all, you're wise to steer...

Yup, if the options are sealed beams or good(!) H4s, the H4s are usually the better pick. If it's between sealed beams and lousy H4s (there are a lot of lousy H4s), the better pick is don't drive at night.

Yes, there are "E-code" headlamps made for right-side traffic. The US is the only country where they're not allowed. You're right, that's pretty damn dumb, but the US inherited a we're-right-and-the-whole-stupid-rest-of-the-world-is-wrong streak from England (and just look how well that's been...

Something's the matter with this sequence of events: there has never been a 49-state-legal Cibie headlamp. There were Cibie European-code headlamps which didn't meet the Federal standard (because the US was and is the only country in the world not to allow or permit vehicles and equipment...

Yes, DRLs—legitimate ones, configured appropriately for automatic operation—significantly reduce your risk of being in a crash during the daytime, and are required equipment in Canada, throughout Europe, and in a large and growing number of other countries throughout the world because they are a...

For damn good reasons. They're flatly unsafe. Halogen lamps need to use halogen bulbs. The "LED bulbs" now flooding the market, claiming to convert halogen headlamps to LED, are not a legitimate, safe, effective, or legal product. No matter whose name is on them or what the vendor claims...