Led headlights

Just installed the Hikari Eye Of Megatron led replacement headlights , I must say I’m impressed , living in southern WV there are some dark roads here , and they light up the road low beams high beams there both great , this is in a standard housing on a 2015 Tacoma,,,,,, anyone else have these ? And what’s your experiences with them ?

 

You asked for opinions, so I'll offer mine. That's a terrible looking beam pattern. One huge hot spot and lots of scatter around it. Further proof of why LED replacements should not be run in housings designed for halogen bulbs. I'll pass thank you.

 

Great another person thinking LED's are awesome and blinding people in Halogen Headlamps. Read this and think of oncoming drivers you are blinding.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/the-ultimate-headlight-upgrade-h4-not-led-or-hid.398066/

 

Well still have adjustment to make , and so far it’s not bad for oncoming traffic

 

Unfortunately you are wrong and it has been proven a million times over that LED's do not belong in Halogen Housings. But hey as long as you like

 

That’s all that matters to me lol

 

Maybe you should read this:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/why-leds-should-not-be-run-in-halogen-reflectors.454371/

 

Well , im actually look at projection headlights as well , but as far as the section in loss of distance , I actually gained distance on the high side,,,,, I’m researching on projection housings at the moment , anyone have any advice , I have been looking at the mono projectors , anyone have these ?

 

There is a lot of projects I have for my Tacoma lol,,,, looking at lifts , off road bumpers, additional lighting, rims.

 

Welcome. The name of those bulbs sounds soooo Japanese. Lots of people on this forum will give you crap for running HID or LED bulbs in the stock housing. I have lower expectations. Around me people don’t run any lights, one is burned out, or the high beam is on because one is burned out. Lol. But if you walk out 25 feet from parked truck on level ground and the headlight isn’t shining in your eyes I would say you are fine. Countless lifted vehicles are just as bright with their headlights adjusted poorly as yours will be.

 

Cool

 

Um, no. Not even close.

 

Best me to it, gotta love the answers on here sometimes.

 

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but when flat out wrong information is shared, I just have to say something. After all, if it's on the internet, it must be true.

 

gotta love opinions

 

Especially the wrong ones

 

You’ll notice those specific LEDs are covered in this thread already linked below.

Performance is aweful, and there is significant hazardous glare. Your output photos show a massive blob of light right in front of the truck, no distance projection and non uniform light distribution, which is pretty typical of drop in LEDs.

Compare your LED lights


To a halogen upgrade:


While photos are not a great method for comparing lights, you’ll notice that the light distribution and saturation is far better, they project further, and don’t cause excessive glare. Take a look at that thread linked above.

And even if you did a projector retrofit, LEDs do not project well compared to using the halogens, because that is the light source the housing is designed for.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/3rd-gen-hid-vs-led-vs-halogen-h11-projector-headlights.589465/