Dim tacoma Beast headlights

I might add that @ratcityrain dumped those TCM BST garbage headlights and got Morimoto XBs.

 

It doesn't appear your headlights are even on. That is dangerously outrunning the beam and appears to just be fog lights.

No, and I have no plans to test their illegitimate headlight. See post #62 here.

 

They are on. They just don’t work very well in the rain lol

 

Well damn well hope OP sees this before wasting some money.

 

hmmmmm. You can see how the headlight on the left (passenger side) is almost as bright as the fog light, and the headlight on the right (driver) is facing upwards a bit which unfortunately blinds people in small cars.

 

Did you aim them?

 

Headlights should be way brighter than the fogs. It would appear one is not aimed correctly and/or you are taking the photo below the cut off horizon of the right light.

 

More photos

 

Both headlights are leveled out nicely. Not sure why the drivers side headlight is so weird. maybe it was the weird angle

 

isnt drivers side supposed to be aimed a tad bit lower than passenger side? I put HIDs in my 2nd gen tacomabeast headlights since i thought that since they were projectors it was ok. I've never been flashed and output is far better than the bulbs they came with

 

Maybe I’ll drive around in reverse for now on. My reverse lights are much brighter than my low beams

 

I just did the RX350 retrofit on my SR5.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/sr5-bhlm-retrofit.689576/

I would throw that Tacoma Beast garbage in the dumpster and do a retrofit. The Alpha Rex are garbage, they won’t even let @crashnburn80 do a review on them. If you want an all in one LED setup I would at least go with the Morimoto XBs.
You could probably do a cool quad retrofit with the Tacoma Beast headlights. Stick in quad MLED 2.0 or quad mini DS2 projectors. See if you can make lemonade out of lemons.

 

I bet rx350 headlights are very expensive, especially the top trim level headlights with that LEDs. My mom has a 2014 rx350 (highest trim, idk which) and her headlights have this weird animation whenever the lights turn on. Must be a Lexus thing

Lincoln and Cadillac have a unique headlight animation as well

 

It’s just the bi-xenon HID projectors, direct bolt on to the stock headlight housing with a little trimming to make room for the high beam solenoid. You can buy a pair at TRS or Lightwerkz for $299 or for another $100 you can have them clear lens and tuned. I got the pair I used for my retrofit off eBay clear lens and tuned for under $250.

 

@crashnburn80 has spoken. Throw the Tacomabeast trash in the nearest landfill and go get a set of OEM LED and adapter harness. Buy once, cry once. Headlights are too important to your safety to cheap out.

You wouldn't buy those cheap Chinese RV "popwell" tires for your rig would you?

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2020-oem-led-headlight-pics.645174/#post-24351987

 

OP has an SR5, the OEM LEDs are not plug & play in an SR5 and there’s no wire harness available. It can be done with a home made harness and some electrical work. Not to mention they are around $1300 -$1500 for a pair.

 

Whoops. Then get Morimoto XBs. They can run with SR5.

Black Friday coming, maybe TRS will have a sale?

 

The XBs are the best PnP LED option, but still expensive. I’m still voting on seeing a quad MLED 2.0 or Mini D2S retrofit with the Tacoma Beast headlights. Would still be cheaper than the XBs.
Maybe even a quad RX350 retrofit.

 

Im about to get rid of the crappy spyderauto (tacomabeast) headlights. I'm looking to upgrade to the morimoto xb led headlights. I just had the worst experience with these headlights... so I was driving at 8pm in heavy rain on a backroad and I had to actually stop my truck and sit in the middle of the road for a solid 6 minutes until I can see shit. Nobody else was driving down the road, thankfully lol.

I guess its a good thing I installed that lightbar last week

Heres how bad it is without rain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vkGZ_68WUQ&ab_channel=BrandonLusch

and here is with rain:
https://youtu.be/1a8KCzOzwuc

 

Doesn’t even look like they are on. Wow