Headlight Upgrade
Laughing Gas
Joined: Nov 2020
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From: CNM
I can't wait to see how terrible the stock halogens are, lol.
Coming from a 2000 SD I bet they will be fine.
With the upfitter switches, maybe I'll have to add an off road light bar for tooling around the country side.
Coming from a 2000 SD I bet they will be fine.
With the upfitter switches, maybe I'll have to add an off road light bar for tooling around the country side.
Lead Driver
Joined: May 2021
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From: Uh oh, CA
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Senior User
Joined: Sep 2021
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The problem with auxiliary lights is that they aren't street legal in a lot of places and they aren't designed to aim towards oncoming cars.
Senior User
Joined: Sep 2021
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From: Kaysville Utah
I would give second thought before replacing halogen bulbs with plug and play LEDs. Aside from the colder and brighter 6000K frequency white/blue light (especially annoying), the LEDs themselves do not replicate the exact positioning and light projection characteristics of the OEM halogen bulb with a filament within the headlamp assembly. This means that the light beam pattern reflected and projected is now outside of the OEM engineered design. Illumination of the pavement ahead is only one part of the beam design. The aftermarket LEDs (linked to Amazon) emit light from 2 flat planes where the halogen bulb has both radial and frontal light emission pattern. The aftermarket plug and play LEDs may be a brighter light, but may not necessarily be a better light when paired to an OEM headlamp assembly. It would be like wearing someone else's eye glass prescription. The OEM LEDs of course are a different story because the LED lamp and housing are designed together as a system.
Nah, I don't buy that one bit.
Cross-Country
Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Southern Utah
I think the halogens are fine, even on the back roads on dark nights I haven't had issues with being able to see. I will also say that I keep my fog lights turned on too, so they make a difference too, but at this point they are great. Don't get me wrong, I love the way the LED lights look and would be happy to have them, but in order for me to get there from my order would have been an additional $9000, so definitely not worth it. I am glad that I am seeing all the talk about the Morimoto's though... I didn't realize that there were so many "bad" reviews of them... they were on my long list of things I wanted, but they're not really there anymore... I think I will just stick with my halogens and put that money elsewhere!
I would like to say that the XB LEDs did look excellent on my 2012 450, and the build quality was high, but the Z cut-off and they were not as bright as I was expecting. Definitely much brighter than my stock single halogen though. However, at the end of the day, $1450 (for my 2012's) and $1950 for a 2022, that is a hard pass for me. You never know, a set of factory LED's might just appear on eBay too!
Cargo Master
Joined: Oct 2019
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From: Southeast MO
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Tuned
Joined: Oct 2020
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I either got lucky with the set of XB’s that I have or the hybrid has a very different design. I’ll pull against my shop tomorrow morning and get a pic of the high beam and low beam cutoff. I never have noticed a void in mine. Only change I have done with mine is Bambi mode in forscan but I can’t see the fog lights patching a gap between the lows and highs.
Cargo Master
Joined: Oct 2019
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From: Southeast MO
I either got lucky with the set of XB’s that I have or the hybrid has a very different design. I’ll pull against my shop tomorrow morning and get a pic of the high beam and low beam cutoff. I never have noticed a void in mine. Only change I have done with mine is Bambi mode in forscan but I can’t see the fog lights patching a gap between the lows and highs.
Tuned
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Cargo Master
Joined: Oct 2019
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From: Southeast MO
That suck to hear about the hybrids. I thought they were really good looking lights. As far as the start up sequence on my truck I’ve honestly never seen it, I’m always backed into my driveway and at my shop and I remote start the truck every time I get in year round. I wonder if it’s due to the XB’s having 4 projectors vs 2 on the hybrids.
Lead Driver
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From: NY/Canada border
I would like to say that the XB LEDs did look excellent on my 2012 450, and the build quality was high, but the Z cut-off and they were not as bright as I was expecting. Definitely much brighter than my stock single halogen though. However, at the end of the day, $1450 (for my 2012's) and $1950 for a 2022, that is a hard pass for me. You never know, a set of factory LED's might just appear on eBay too!
Mountain Pass
Joined: Dec 2018
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From: Mineral, VA
Seems to be a bunch of hating on the Z pattern, but if the lights are adjusted properly you should only see that when up close to the object viewing it on (garage door). The father away from that item the smaller the Z becomes. After I installed them yesterday it was light out so I really couldn’t test the pattern, so last night I did, which is a pain in the *** by the way (not Morimoto’s fault, just access). When 25’ away from the building the Z is definitely visible, but once on the road good to go.
