2020 OEM LED Headlight pics

Yeah, common practice in aftermarket LEDs unfortunately. Start a company to sell LEDs (cough Headlight Revolution), then start another 'independent' company to produce LEDs under a different name (coughs GTR). Have your LED producing company sell exclusively to your LED sales company. Have your LED sales company test and rate your produced LEDs as an "unbiased independent entity" (not obvious to most, since the clever name change and different company). Then have "independent" sales company rate the LED producing company as the best. Make youtube videos, sell products like crazy. Except most don't realize the sales company is promoting their own products disguised as a different brand and effectively promoting their products and declaring them as best in what deceptively appears as an independent test when that is hardly the case.

There is of course nothing wrong with making comparison videos to promote products, but don't be deliberately misleading about the products you are promoting. The best way to conceal poor performance of an LED is to use a short range test, which is often what many LED companies use in their marketing. The lack of focus is less apparent at short range and will return better readings. A long range test easily exposes the products performances flaws. Many LED companies are running tests at 20-25ft. I run my distance tests at 42', which is the longest distance practical to me, though I would prefer it to be a bit longer. If you want to look at what serious LED company's testing looks like, check out Diode Dynamics. They have invested heavily in automated test systems and runs highly accurate tests at 50ft. Diode Dynamics brings real science to industry in a direct data based approach, which is refreshing in an industry full of snake oil and misleading marketing.

See 11:35 in the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyRe7o96DRI

 

Noob question

Can I buy these headlight units and plug and play into my 21 sr5?

 

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Thank you kindly

 

No need to be a cocky gatekeeper when you didn't comprehend what you read or the idea behind pictures I posted. It's to give an idea of what they look like from the driver's seat. It sucks you get flashed up there, have yet to get flashed after 25,000mi and my wife's stock 2015 Crosstrek with 125,000mi old, factory aimed halogens still gets flashed. When I'm done building the shop, it'll get a proper bi-xenon retrofit. I'm not bothering with anything else.

The factory fogs really fill in on the corners, almost too much, they seem to fill a compact car's cabin pretty badly. I'll actually turn the fogs off at times as a courtesy. If I'm behind something tiny like a Miata in street-lit city traffic, I'll turn the low beams off and just have fogs until I'm not behind them. Same with being stopped at red lights when pointing up into an intersection, I'll blind the piss out of people so I switch to parking lights and fogs for the moment. A little courtesy goes a long way.

(If that was toward me, if not then this is just reinforcement of agreement) I didn't say a drop in would stand up to OEM, I suggested that if that guy didn't want to mess with swapping or retrofitting. It's better than the halogen candles and thankfully for everyone else on the road, he has projectors. LED in halogen reflectors? Hell no. That's why I'm retrofitting my wife's crosstrek instead of messing around with bulbs. The fact that I have a bi-xenon setup sitting on the shelf was just convenient.

I notice the hotspots if I am really looking for them or when the lights sweep across a parking lot turned-to-lock kinda deal. As I said in the original post, it's a really good cutoff for a reflector setup. They're not perfect by any means but they're killer for the price and being OEM!

Sometimes the squirrel spotter is actually in the molded plastic cover entirely separate from the actual optics. Cheaper and easier to manufacture that way. I agree, it's not really useful. And I don't have projectors, I was posting my lights since at the time, no one else had shown them and you couldn't find similar pics online.

That's not stealing my thunder, by a .gif I was referring to an animation. By now I'm too lazy and everyone has seem them in action anyway.