LED vs halogen vs incandescent headlights ?
Your thoughts or experience ?
Your thoughts or experience ?
I have only limited experience with LEDs, and it's gonna stay that way.
IMO
they are retina burners to look at,
but have lousy penetration,
and even less ability to shine into a hole.
IMO
they make lousy worklights, lousy flashlights, and lousy lights in my home. I am slowly, as they burn out, converting my 40 or so, GU-10 potlights in my house back to halogen.
When I encounter LED headlights coming at me at night, I cringe. At age 68, my eyes are becoming slower to adjust, and so I am forced to drive by looking at the shoulder, and occasionally also have to slow down as the retina-burner passes by. This has been on-going for about 10 or so years, when they first became available.
There is no way I would put that on some other old-guy, so will never install LEDS on my car, cuz not every old-guy can drive by referencing the shoulder.
Furthermore, as regards LED tail-lights, like I said, LEDs have no penetration power. So in a snowstorm, it has happened to me that I have caught up to a vehicle with LEDS and nearly smashed into it. Whereas the non-LED cars gave more warning. My guess was that he was crawling along because his headlights also had no penetration power. I don't know that because I don't have and never will have LEDS.
Halogen headlights do what they are supposed to, without the retina-burning effect to oncoming vehicles. If there was only one thing in this world I could hate, it would be LED automotive lighting.
And that's my opinion.
and yet you quoted the entire post......Thank God your experience on something is limited, or we'd gotten two pages. lol
For the Dart I used Nighthawks at the reccommendation of @slantsixdan. About the best stock replacements out there. Coupled with one of @TrailBeast relay kits, its hard to beat....The Nighthawks work great, I never drove 80 mph at night, so I didnt need to see half a mile away.
and yet you quoted the entire post......
You can't put me on ignore, can you......
But you can lambaste me every chance you get. You are such an enigma.....
I got mine a few years back from a place called Zoro I believe. $6.99 each. With Covid, I'm sure they would be $25 each.I looked for some Nighthawks just the other day and it appears they are out of production??? Or at least most everywhere that I found them it said only 1 or none available.
There was some Nighthawk Sport ones, though. But based on earlier readings, I think they added a blue tint to the lens which (as I understood) was a bad thing.
There seems to be a trend the last 5 or so years to see who has the "awesomest" headlights, or at least who has the most LED lightbars. For the Dart I used Nighthawks at the reccommendation of @slantsixdan. About the best stock replacements out there. Coupled with one of @TrailBeast relay kits, its hard to beat.
Among the 17 to 25 crowd, it is amazing how many of these kids toss the headlights Honda and Toyota spent millions and millions perfecting. What does Honda Know? They got themselves the coolest blue tint headlights Ebay had to offer. Fuzzy, unfocused, horrible color temp, etc. About as useful as the shiny anodized tow ring under their rear bumper. More than one person has regretted the Ebay LED "100% guarenteed fit" conversion. The Nighthawks work great, I never drove 80 mph at night, so I didnt need to see half a mile away.
"You are such an enigma"
And here I thought he was Caucasian.
I know right? Me too! Just a old honky.
LED vs halogen vs incandescent headlights ?
Night Hawk sealed beams
Most "upgrades" can be recognized by the tuners girlfriend proclaiming "OMG, they look so blue. Totally cool!"Be very careful, picky, and skeptical; there is a ton of unsafe, fraudulent garbage on the market, and it's all marketed as an "upgrade