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EBAY Halo LED lights Question?

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by Weldereric, Dec 20, 2013.

  1. Dec 20, 2013 at 9:27 AM
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    Weldereric

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  2. Dec 20, 2013 at 9:31 AM
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    $100 more and you could get FXRs for your tacoma lights. Awesome light output and they look great. Also a lot of people come into Advance and ask if they can fix their lights. Some have been from ebay, bulb numbers are different, sometimes the wiring is inside the light and for tail lights half the time they are LED and the LEDs go out leaving you with a half lit tail light you have to replace a year later. On top of that both headlights and tail lights are known to leak water into them making them look like crap.



    Idk how the tacoma ones, I put some in a friends impala and they sucked balls.

    Here's the output of them

    LOL
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    Here are some real projectors


    FXR in my tacoma
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    Mini H1 in girlfriends focus
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  3. Dec 20, 2013 at 9:33 AM
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    Compared to what? and those cutoffs look quite good for ebay projectors......
     
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  4. Dec 20, 2013 at 9:34 AM
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    I've got a set and they are ok. I do want to retrofit them at some point. I worked 3rd shift for a couple years so I was always driving in the dark. I think they are better than stock.

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    They were horrible, no light in front of you and the high beams were garbage. VERY narrow beams too. They were worse than stock for sure.


    Like I said, Idk how the tacoma ones are but the impala ones sucked
     
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  6. Dec 20, 2013 at 9:40 AM
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    That the cutoff? damn not too shabby for fleabay special.

    Granted thats at like 8 feet. Whats it like 25-50ft?
     
  7. Dec 20, 2013 at 9:47 AM
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    I'll take more shots tonight.
     
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    People here haven't had good results from those Ebay lights.
     
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    I just got my truck (an 07 ) back from the body shop after hitting a deer and they replaced both the originals with Toyota oem's and they new ones are ALOT better than my originals. the original were just bright lights with no real sence of a beam. the new ones are bright as hell with a line broadcasted out about (guessing 150' to 200' feet.) so I'm not blinding everyone in front of me. then I flipped on the high beams and holy hell. I had a clear bright beam straight out in front of me to what seamed light a 1/4 mile. I was very impressed with them. I'm not sure I want to change now.
     
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    I thought my stock headlights were awesome compared to every other car I've had.

    But I just had to upgrade to HIDs lol
     
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    If its on ebay you can expect it to be crap.

    Retrofit Mini's.
     
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    If you don't wanna retrofit go with the spyder halos, I have them on my truck and they're nice. $250 on carid.com Plenty of light output with decent cut off lines
     
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    Had a set of Anzo's when I had my 2011 bought off Amazon.
    They weren't bad but not quite as good as stock.


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    I have those fit is great lighting good. Passenger side is fogy due to slight leak happy with them over all.
     
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    What are HIDs ?
     
  17. Dec 23, 2013 at 5:36 AM
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    A newer brighter type of lighting designed for projectors. Google it for more information.
     
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    High intensity discharge lights. The really bright white lights you see on most luxury vehicles. They make retrofit kits for our trucks but you have to completely disassemble the headlight housing and add a projector for it to work correctly. Some people put a drop in HID kit into the stock housing but the results are bad and it blinds oncoming drivers. Don't go that route.
     
  19. Dec 23, 2013 at 4:15 PM
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    I owned those headlights for a few months before ditching them for smoked stock headlights. Light quality was terrible and even had a halo go out on my passenger side. I'd ditch em sooner than later before the same happens to you, just my honest opinion.
     
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    The Anzo lights (posted above) were good lights and I never had any issues with them. They didn't put out quite the light output as stock but not bad at all really. Nothing beats the stock lights except for well done retrofits.
     

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