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LED vs Xenon Light Bulbs for 2018 Taco

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by G-G, Oct 9, 2021.

  1. Oct 9, 2021 at 2:29 PM
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    G-G

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    OEM LED (2020+) with an adapter harness.

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    Lots of happy owners using leds and very happy and satisfied.
     
  6. Oct 9, 2021 at 9:22 PM
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    Yes. All your answers are in the thread already linked. OEM LED assemblies are vastly superior to anything you can do with your stock halogen ones. Don’t fall for Headlight Revolutions misleading marketing, it’s a joke. The best replacement LED is the Morimoto 2stroke 3.0, but that is easily outperformed by a far less expensive halogen bulb upgrade. HIDs in the OEM housings are not recommended, the housing is not an HID projector. It is designed to allow halogen uplight and HIDs make that uplight far brighter than it is supposed to be, blinding other drivers. If wanting HID you need to do a full projector retrofit with proper D2S HID projectors, such as those from an RX350. Examples with pictures and measured data from everything above is all in that thread linked earlier.
     

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