Just installed Opt7 LEDs in projectors and fogs.

Oh man that looks awesome!!!

 

Has anyone tried these?

https://www.theretrofitsource.com/a...Toyota+Tacoma&preselect=&preselect_restrict=1

 

I was looking at these JDM ASTARs:

JDM ASTAR ZES chips fanless design white H16 LED Fog Light bulbs with an adjustable light angel and anti-glare feature not blind on coming driver

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018SV3OUK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A126Q4T86JLNL

Will these fit? How comparable are these to the OPT7s?

 

Ordered Opt7's. Fingers crossed I like em. Will let you know next week.

 

This might sound like a dumb question, but are the Opt7's high and low beams??

 

Low beam and high beams are separate on the 2016 . H11 for low and H9 for high.

 

wait don't H11's fit low high and fogs?

 

Just lows and fogs I believe

 

So we would have to get the H9 and two sets of H11?

 

Yes, which was why I was looking some JDM ASTARs

JDM ASTAR 702 5202 WHITE LED FOG LIGHT BULBS

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JYC0RTI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A126Q4T86JLNL

Says these will fit h11 and h9. Amazon says they don't fit but Amazon says EVERYTHING doesn't fit the 2016 lol.

 

no no no, many many people on here have said that H11 fit EVERYTHING.... lows, hi and fogs

 

Yup, these LED units are not setup for projectors...

 

Oh. I don't know about that. I'm just going by what the manual says.

 

Final Consensus? My thought is, I'd just replace high and low beams, then replace fogs with rigid intiustries led cubes

 

The H11 will fit both high and lows. It's shows it on their website

 

Thanks RNTaco for #331 and Tasnowma (OP)!!

Just ordered the OPT7 H11 for Lows and OPT7 Fogs for fogs. Also ordered a bunch of the other LEDS.. Form the sticky LED thread!!

Really appreciated the write ups and time you both spen on this.

 

Not to shit on your thread but I also installed OPT7 LED low beams and fogs and wasn't impressed at all, but I've had properly retrofitted HIDs before so I've been spoiled.

I just swapped them out for Philips 4300k HID low beams and Phillips 6000k LED fogs, MUCH BETTER. I'll try to take some comparison pics for everyone later but the Philips HID blows the OPT7 out of the water in regards to distance and light contrast with the road. The Philips fogs throw a much better pattern than the OPT7s and much wider and focused too, plust he OPT7 would just shoot light straight forward, wouldn't go far and just blind people. The Philips puts the light where you need it without straight up blinding oncoming traffic.

Anyone considering this mod I promise you'll be much happier with Philips HID for low beams and Philips LED for fogs. Its twice the cost but worth the $.

Edit: Here's the kit I got
http://www.xenondepot.com/H11-automotive-bulbs-s/1047.htm

 

If the hids have a longer distance you are probably blinding oncoming cars. The opt7 leds have the same cut off as oem so they don't bother oncoming traffic . The opt7 have a pure white that make oem bulbs look yellow. I didn't care for the opt7 lights the first 2 times that I drove at night but now I really like them. I don't know if it's an eye adjustment or if they get a little brighter after use.

 

Actually the LEDs are FAR more blinding while at the same time being less effective at distance, especially in the fog lights. It doesn't have to do with cutoff as the HIDs have a very defined cutoff line as well, it has to do with Lux per watt where the HIDs are still far superior. LEDs require specialized housings to properly compound and project LED lighting at distance, without doing a full projector retrofit you simply cannot achieve that with LEDs. Its true HIDs should also have a proper retrofit to maximize efficiency but when both use a stock halogen projector the HIDs are less effected. But that's for low beams, since fog lights are more of a flood light and don't go the distance I stuck with Philips LEDs, even then they blow the OPT7 out of the water as they seem to have much higher quality optics (only explanation I can see for the vast difference in light diffusion and "blindingness").

I have some night pics I can upload later but heres a pic while I was swapping out the OPT7 for Philips in the fog lights. Left is Philips, Right side is OPT7. You can see even in the daytime the OPT7 is just shooting light straight at you blinding. The Philips is much more subtle/focused and you can even see the reflector past the light. At night the OPT7 barely make it farther than 15-20ft ahead of me before light is totally diffused. The Philips go 2-3x as far and as you can see don't blind you while doing it...

 

So HID's in the fogs instead of LED's?