Illegal? Huh? I have and many others on here use them. I have never been flashed when driving towards someone. Not sure how or where you get those ideas from? Sure, using them in some vehicles dont work, but the headlights have a reflector in them, so not sure why you or the article say they dont work?

 

Hes a troll, he has been arguing with people, me included about everything from speed limits, to lights, and other stuff, he seems to be a wanabe SJW who thinks we should all bend to his will and do things his way, and that if we do not, that we are the ones who are morons. Probably a 18 year old entry level adult just learning the world and suddenly thinks he knows more then the rest of us combined.

OP, LED lights are fine, they work great, they are perfectly safe for the road, Just don't get the Neon Pink or Purple ones, they need to be 6000K or 8000K color to be used on the road, anything higher or lower is a color that is not acceptable for on road use. "HID"s are the lights that are insanely bright and should be avoided, and can get you ticketed. LEDs are just fine.

3000K = the neon yellow, import people seem to like them, they are not acceptable but not as bad as the purple/pink ones.
6000K = perfect white color
8000K = white with a little blue hint, basically the color like the new cars have, ever so slightly slightly blue hint of color, and still perfectly fine.
10000K = super blue, these are illegal because blue lights are RESERVED for Police and Emergency Vehicles, DOT allows white and amber for the front of the vehicle
12000K = super blue+violet, these are illegal because blue lights are RESERVED for Police and Emergency Vehicles, DOT allows white and amber for the front of the vehicle
15000K = super blue+++violet, these are illegal because blue lights are RESERVED for Police and Emergency Vehicles, DOT allows white and amber for the front of the vehicle
30000K = Neon Pink, They stand out like crazy, and will get you stopped because the color is not legal for the front of a vehicle. You might as well flag down an officer as you pass them.

All my vehicles are using 8000K color, just make sure you get LED, not HID

 

Any reflector/housing/projector using a bulb not designed specifically to work with it will produce a beam pattern different from the OEM intended beam pattern. That may be good in rare cases, but it is usually sub-optimum and almost universally in the form of blinding other drivers and wasting light with excessive spill. It can actually work against you, by over-illuminating the road or trail too much close in front of you and blinding... you. The Ford housings found on Superduty trucks seem to be particularly prone to over-dispersion, causing your eBay "superblue, dude!" bulbs to be very obnoxious to others. At issue is the distance from the back of the reflector to the element; many aftermarket halogen, most HID, and almost all LED bulbs place the element in a focally-incorrect plane.

Separating the high beam from the low beam into different reflectors allows one to have legal, other driver-friendly low beams yet powerful on-demand high beams that extend illumination from the far edge of low-beam coverage out to maximum distance. Using the two in concert gives the most optimum, effective light dispersion that is not offensive to others.

Being obnoxious isn't a good way to look cool, and in the case of lighting, is actually self-defeating.

 

And I am telling you, i know all about the obnoxious headlights, and the ones i recommended, and use myself, ARE NOT THOSE! AND work especially well. They are not knockoff Chinese hack job crap like most of the LED lights out there are.

These ones have digitally controlled cooling fans, with overheat protection, and the emitters are angled to provide a soft dispersion, not a beam that over-illuminates some stuff while leaving others dark, you can make arguments all you want, but if you have not used them, YOU cannot speak to them. These are not the ones that you cuss at when they are on-coming, they actually look pretty normal other than the slight blue hint of color.

People want to try and tell someone why something THEY THEMSELVES have never used, is bad, and stupid, and need to either try it, or shut the truck off.

Oh, and these are not a generic eBay find, and they are not the super blues, DUDE! I specifically recommended against those. Could have sworn i mentioned above that those are illegal. oh yeah i did.

Not like you didn't actually read my whole post of anything.... Probably another guy that has looked on-coming at too many set of HIDs and thinks HID=LED

 

I bought GTR Ultra ll's They have a cut off pattern like halogen lights. Their points are chip placement on the stem and the position of the LED within the housing to try to match an oem filament position. If I ever find a way to get a retention ring to lock the headlight in place, I'll take a picture