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Old Mar 22, 2025 | 05:57 PM
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Headlights, What's New?

After ten years one of my HID bulbs burned out. Can't remember where I even got them. It looks like if I stick with HID I'm going to have to replace the bulbs, ballasts and wiring in order to make something work. What's everyone running? Is it better to go to LED's?
 
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Old Mar 22, 2025 | 07:17 PM
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Not really new but LED projectors, the big upside with any LED light is no need to upgrade any wiring.
 
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Old Mar 22, 2025 | 09:20 PM
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LED Projectors are the new new. There are a handful of places that sell housings set up for them.

I used bajahidretrofits. https://www.bajahidretrofits.com/store/
 
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Stock headlights with Phillips LED bulbs. Works great for me. I think most of the aftermarket headlamps look like cheap junk. I suspect they work like many of the parts that start out from China.
 
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Stock headlights with Phillips LED bulbs. Works great for me. I think most of the aftermarket headlamps look like cheap junk. I suspect they work like many of the parts that start out from China.
I tend to agree, most aftermarket housing look out if place to me. The place above retrofitted the LED projector into a new stock housing for me.




The light output to me is night and day compared to a stock halogen bulb. I didn't want to just put an led into our stock housings and potentially blind others. My truck also sits a smidge taller so people tend to flash me already.



I like that it has a clean crisp cutoff line too.
 
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