Headlight recommendations?

Hey everyone,

I’m looking to replace my Tacoma’s headlights in the next few months. At first I thought about just dropping in some LED bulbs since I want super bright lights for better night visibility, especially living in an area where deer love to run out of the woods and kamikaze your front end. But I realized putting LED bulbs in halogen housings might not be the safest or legal option.

Does anyone have recommendations for some affordable yet really bright headlights that won’t get me in trouble?

Possibly some LED lights that work fine with halogen housing?

 

I can’t rate these myself but I hear they are really good just a little pricey.

https://teqcustoms.com/products/oem-edition-headlights-01-04-tacoma

 

Yes, those are excellent recommendations but wayy out of my price range lol, will probably study the headlight assemblies of newer vehicles versus the halogen housing and see what I can do.

 

Turns out they make LED bulbs that mimic the style of halogen bulbs. After reading into the science behind halogen housing, I know that since halogen shoots out in all directions the housing must focus it into a beam, this can also be achieved by using LED bulbs that shoot light out in all ways similar to a halogen allowing them to work together.

 

TBHp, @chasetheCarguy4x, I think you’re kidding yourself here. No LED H4 style is going to be anywhere close to the light quality of an H4 halogen. I’ve tried some of them, including ones from respectable brands like Philips. Lower beam intensity despite any wild-assed marketing claims and simply horrible hot and cold spots in the pattern.

The best solution is OEM housings, a good H4 such as Osram/Sylvania from the Gen 2 lights thread, with the possible upgrade of relay-switched wiring directly from the battery.

 

Note that the marketing claims are usually achieved by multiplying the theoretically capable lumen count by 2 bulbs, leading to those large figures. Usually in an advertised 6k lumen bulb you will only get around 3000-4000 lumens of usable light, which honestly knocks the halogens out of the park.

 

I’d suggest the wiring upgrade outlined in this thread. I’ve been running this setup for a couple years and it’s great. I also live in a rural area with tons of deer.

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

 

I just got some a few months back from https://teqcustoms.com Compared to similar styles, they are priced very good, and it was nice to scrap the HID bs I was using forever with a lens that was internally fogged out...they have a lot of options, here are a couple pics I took a couple weeks back (I love the built-in LED and the options that have, I want with a very modest build).

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/proper-headlight-upgrade.407879/

Meets your stated criteria