What the hell is wrong with Ford?
Tuned
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From: Kerrville, Texas
So... no, LED lights are not the evil things that you make them out to be,
Mountain Pass
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LEDs are like all things, depends on your perspective.
Driving a Honda Accord in heavy traffic at 0500 with a 3/4 ton running LEDs behind; kind of two birding it - getting to work in a tanning bed, while tanning…..
Driving a Honda Accord in heavy traffic at 0500 with a 3/4 ton running LEDs behind; kind of two birding it - getting to work in a tanning bed, while tanning…..
Lead Driver
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From: Itinerant
Before doing the switch to led bulbs I would get the occasional flash from on comming traffic with the halogen bulbs. After doing the switch I followed the aiming/ adjustment procedure against a wall and it turned out that the lights from factory where set 2" high. I have not been flashed once since switching to led.
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I'll go out on a limb and say that if you're getting blinded by led's than they're not adjusted properly. I've seen enough of those blinding led lights to know what your talking and trying to claim everyone of us law breakers are doing.
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Properly adjusted with the proper type of bulb, they don't blind. Put the wrong bulb, those with 360* LED, then they blind. Those cannot be adjusted. I put a set in my wife's Focus and they were blinding, then I put the blade type in, set them at the proper degree and they are bright but no longer blind.
There are factory driving lights on GM SUV that are blinding at a certain distance worse than some redneck with a Carolina Squat.
There are factory driving lights on GM SUV that are blinding at a certain distance worse than some redneck with a Carolina Squat.
Logistics Pro
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Over time I came to the conclusion that LED bulbs in halogen housing is one of those things where if they are truly universally glaring, I imagine cops, state patrols and highway patrols around the country would have a field day pulling people over and write citations. But given the lack of people online everywhere reporting they got a fix-it ticket for them, I can only conclude it's not enough of a concern or nuisance for law enforcement to care at least in many cases. I stopped worrying about it since there are some truly obnoxious OEM LED headlights out now that makes the worst of the DIY bulb swap look...eh.
Some of the worst glare I have seen were Acura and Hondas of ~10-20 years ago when they first experimented with HID then LED lighting, they seemed to be always aimed high. Lately it's been Teslas for me when their auto dim doesn't work until upclose to oncoming vehicles.
Some of the worst glare I have seen were Acura and Hondas of ~10-20 years ago when they first experimented with HID then LED lighting, they seemed to be always aimed high. Lately it's been Teslas for me when their auto dim doesn't work until upclose to oncoming vehicles.
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Some of the worst glare I have seen were Acura and Hondas of ~10-20 years ago when they first experimented with HID then LED lighting, they seemed to be always aimed high. Lately it's been Teslas for me when their auto dim doesn't work until upclose to oncoming vehicles.
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Some manufacturers actually use a small shield to block out light in a narrow degree field to the left of the center divider so oncoming drivers are not blinded even if the vehicle hits a bump and the beam cutoff swings up. But overall some of the most expensive vehicles on the road with OEM LEDs can be just as bad as aftermarket LED bulbs when it comes to glare, some as you mentioned are more painful to be blasted with than "illegal" set ups.
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