HID, Halogen, ...?

What's the difference? I bought these halogen lights from Hella or something and they only last like 150 hours.. I mean it's not bad given that I paid like $55 for fogs and headlights. Next I really wanna get some good bright white bulbs.. can someone direct me in that area and send links for long lasting bulbs for headlights and fogs?

 

Halogens. HIDs and LEDs will not give you proper light distribution in stock housings.

When it comes to bulbs, it is a tradeoff. If you go brighter, you lose lifetime. I use Philips X-Treme Vision bulbs, they've lasted a decently long time so far.

 

I bought LED lights off of this group buy. Check it out. The lights are great.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rsi-led-headlight-and-fog-light-group-buy-closed.434569/

 

I was thinking something that wouldn't require modification.. is there a way I can get a white light that will last a long time?

 

Drivers side is led and passenger side is stock. I have the highs, lows, and fogs. They're very bright white and are amazing how bright they are. They have a 2 year warranty.

 

Yes you can if you don't mind giving up brightness and/or proper light distribution. And unless you get the Philips H4 LEDs/LEDs with the glare shield, you're going to be that douchebag blinding everyone at night, unless you have the newer Tacoma with projectors. Then you just have poor light distribution and don't realize it.

 

There is a significant difference in technologies. Most importantly HIDs cannot be used in stock halogen reflector housings without having uncontrolled beam patterns and causing significant glare, blinding oncoming drivers and likely leading to a ticket. In order to correctly run HIDs you need to run a full projector retrofit, costing nearly $1k.

Absolutely not. No glare guards so you still have uncontrolled beam pattern like HIDs blinding other drivers while also not being as durable as an HID setup because the LED driver is relying on a joke of a computer microprocessor cooling fan to cool the bulb circuit in a dirty/dusty engine bay of a pickup truck. This is the cheap garbage that has been making its way all over the forum. Just takes a little searching to see people switching back to stock after repetitive LED failures. If you are going LED, do yourself a favor and make sure it is a more modern design that does not have cooling fans, and is a more robust design like the fanless Phillips. While people like to cite their warranties, just look up the lifetime LED thread. Yep, warranties on your headlights don't do you much good if you are constantly sending them in and without headlights for weeks at a time while swapping back to stock.

If you want a real halogen upgrade that is entirely plug and play, you should look at my headlight thread, upgrade left stock right:



Link:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/the-ultimate-headlight-upgrade-not-led-or-hid.398066/

 

Dude, you're slacking... You missed a thread the other day. And a five hour delay to respond on this one, come on.

 

Yeah. Pretty sure you stalk me worse than many girls I know.

But as usual, I still don't see any technical contribution to the thread.

 

OP, ignore t4daddy's drama for your thread.

 

I'm sure I do...

 

I'd wager my retros would compare with your overdriven halogens. I just don't force my opinion on anyone that posts or ask about forward lighting options.

 

Again, you missed a thread to link your build, (wondering if anyone has actually followed, as I've seen zero posts claiming so).