What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

I just bought these for mine. Much higher wattage than stock. 90/100 watt vs 55/60 watt. I have the @crashnburn80 harness though so they get a better power feed. That helped a lot with the factory wattage bulbs too. You could notice them get a bit dimmer when everything was on (radio, wipers full blast, aux lights, etc.). Not anymore
https://www.powerbulbs.com/us/product/osram-super-bright-premium-h4

 

Or when one of the studs snaps off and ya end up securing the new sensor with a band clamp until getting it into El Camino Mufflers. Of course COVID hits and now hardly ever drive the Taco - band clamps holding of course but...

 

If that hump gets removed, I don't even think you need brackets, just bolt down through the floor and put plates (something bigger than a washer) on the underside.

 

smogged and 2 new rear tires today (hankooks, to match the one that went flat (sidewall flat))

 

I wired a special switch to my backup lights (not just factory, but two pods in bumper and one on top of cap), just so I can give them a little blip to let them know. Works!

 

Of the 3 times I've flashed my projectors the oncoming cars turn their High beams off

 

All this talk about LED lights. I rather you run those than the fucken idiots who run ALL the light bars mounted on during the day and night. Fucken Idiots

 

It's the dash gauges in the new cars that are always lit up and bright. I drove a few blocks with my lights off in some new POS rental car and it dawned on me how the dumbo's do it.

As for running with evrey forward facing LED on at all times regardless of the weather, neck yourself!

 

When I had my fancy LEDs with the shroud thing in I never got flashed by cars or trucks.
But the second a semi was in the opposite lane they’d let me know my lights were hitting them up higher.


Weird but true.

 

They have a lens covering them that focuses the light don't they? Far cry from an LED mounted in a halogen housing with a clear plastic cover. Just Sayin!

 

Are they adaptive or fixed? The bimmer headlights do a good job of not blinding but the whole moving mechanism is more trouble than the function or LED/HIDs are worth.

 

It's been around so long I kinda figured it was getting cheap. Too bad they haven't made adaptive more Stout, it makes HIDs and LEDs less brain frying for oncoming traffic

 

this shit is awesome. I bet they will get it to work better as time goes on.

 

WTF is going on in here, this is getting as bad as 3rd Gen, and that is coming from a former 1st Gen owner.

BeamTech is a pathetic joke of a product. Check out test results in post #1854. Literally the worst LED I have ever tested by a continental landslide, it is so obvious that this is just bottom of the barrel cheap China crap that anyone with the slightest lighting background would laugh at this product suggestion. The only reason I tested them was as a joke/partially because a few people kept giving such horrifically awful advice to our forum members that was endangering people. Yeah they create foreground light, but no distance light at all. The test numbers linked are actually artificially very favorable compared to actual performance, since the results were so off the chart awful (worst product ever tested) I didn't even bother with a distance performance test which would have provided far worse real world numbers.

 

Aside from the obvious facepalm with 1st gen LED headlights for blinding the hell out of people, FU cheap ass LED bulbs.

I learned my lesson and went back to incandescent with the exception of maps/interior cab/cluster lights.

 

at work we've had a recent influx of LED bulbs burning up in the 3rd gens... like 4-5 in the past 2 months. (BUT YOU GUYS CAN WARRANTY IT RIGHT?).. no.. no we cannot. and insurance wont cover the harness repairs.. soo i avoid LED headlights. sylvania zevo bulbs for everything else? hell yea.

 

not that i disagree with you..but the bulbs in your test are not the same bulbs that have been brought up here. You tested a H11 and they are using an H4 with a low beam shield.

 

Yep, very valid point. In my testing of countless LED bulbs only one brand provided a half decent properly engineered H4 low beam cut off shield, and that was Philips. All the cheap China brands were crap and provided excessive glare and also significantly reduced low beam performance. BeamTech is an extra special shitshow of an incompetent brand.

 

I have issues driving at night, and I swear some of these newer cars and trucks have 100billion candle watt power Q-beams for headlights these days. Most of these, not all appear to be on low beams and blind the shit out of me. Then you have the Moron's that drive around with their Highs on, which just make it worse. Makes me wish I had a light bar on the top of my truck, that I could turn on and vaporize their entire vehicle. I know improvements have been made in headlight bulb technology, but dam.

 

The real issue here is too many people have their headlights improperly aimed. Even halogen sedans blind the fuck out of me very once in a while. Either that or far too many people can’t grasp the concept of high beam/low beam.