1st gen led light bar ideas

From here: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/light-bar-behind-valence.502205/

 

Nice! What kind of basket is this on?

 

Where did you get the light strips that are right underneath your headlights

 

They are part of and built into those spyder housings. Unless you mean the yellow ones, those are individual leg eagle eye projector bolts drilled into the filler panels, which are kinda garbage btw.

 

This is where mine is. Not a good pic but the light is on and keep in mind that when your wheeling in snow like I was in the pic, that light will get caked with snow.

 

Led bar engaged

 

Coody_1502 are you located in Reno?

 

Not sure if I've posted my lights here before

 

No, Georgia

 

Rigid Industries E2 combo

 

What's everyone running for HID headlights? Looking to convert mine before I get any aux lighting

 

We're not. Lol

 

Our first gens have crap for aftermarket headlight housings, so...

Full retros or the ultimate headlight upgrade.

Don't go throwing HID "conversion kits" in your stock housings.

 

Damn I was just about to buy some lol. Do they melt or what?

Can I put in a halogen bulb that has a similar color to 6000k?

 

The problem with the LED or HID bulbs in Halogen housings is that they throw light differently than a halogen bulb (despite what the manufacturer tells you). The halogen reflectors are precisely engineered to reflect the light a certain way, so when you put a different style bulb in there, the light gets smeared.

So you end up getting a bunch of glare, and blinding other drivers. Most people say just point the headlights down a bit, but that band-aid fix is honestly just dumb. You are defeating the purpose of the lights by pointing them down, now you don't see as far down the road, but damn, they'll be bright.

You can get some halogen bulbs that have a blue filter on them, but honestly, it's a filter so you are actually reducing the amount of light that end up on the road, but it does look bluer.

 

And HIDs are just blinding either way lol I've heard you can get LEDs with cutoffs that work pretty well with our housings. I need some cause my halogens don't look right with LED corners lol

 

Buried in that thread I linked to, or maybe this one, @crashnburn80 talks about the LED bulbs that claim to have a good cutoff in the halogen housings. IIRC, basically, they work better than others, but the LEDs are euro spec and are for right hand drive, lol...

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

 

You are referring to this thread:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/the-ultimate-headlight-upgrade-vs-philips-led-headlights.460313/

Yes, Philips, one of the worlds largest and highest quality lighting manufactures made an LED conversion for halogen housings for Asian markets. Unfortunately the cut-offs appear to be reversed from what we need in North America, in other words calibrated for right hand drive. Philips does not list this product as acceptable for North American markets, while it does for Asian markets. While they did appear to actually engineer decent cut-offs (though wrong for North America) it was outperformed by traditional technology using the Ultimate Headlight Upgrade.

Unfortunately, most all aftermarket LED headlights are not developed by companies nearly as interested in real engineering solutions as Philips, and instead push overpriced total crap on consumers with misleading advertising and completely false claims based on cheap Chinese manufacturing. As a result you typically end up with LEDs like this:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/why-leds-should-not-be-run-in-halogen-reflectors.454371/

 

Agree with others... Except I might add that depending on your state laws, as well as your budget, skip doing anything with the headlights and put that money towards your aux lighting. For example some states allow aux lights to be used as high beam alternatives if theyre mounted on the bumper (or more specifically, below a certain height). If not then yeah, retros do pair nicely with aux led lighting and fill in some areas the aux lights might not produce. But with proper/matched Kelvin rated bulbs like 5000/5500k. Having blue headlights and led aux lights looks terrible. I currently have some cheap ebay blue bulbs I had laying around(bought just to see how it'd look in person and took them out the next day) in my retros because my 5000k's went out and too lazy to order more. Plus I cant see shit when it rains. Ha. I really need to redo my retros..