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Can I install LED headlights without a can bus driver?r

I have a 2005 Ford F-250 6.0. Bought some LED headlights online and it gave me the option to get canbus drivers. Was wondering if I need that on my truck for the LED headlights to work?
 
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I have a 2005 Ford F-250 6.0. Bought some LED headlights online and it gave me the option to get canbus drivers. Was wondering if I need that on my truck for the LED headlights to work?
no need for the can bus driver I don’t know what leds your looking at but you should take a look at these links and and threads before you buy there are a bunch of us that are having good luck with here’s my post with links to lights and other threads.

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I would recommend these 2 options they are the same light but branded differently they both have a warranty, I and guys here have had good success so far with them. I have the auxbeam branded ones here
https://www.amazon.com/Auxbeam-Headl.../dp/B074GWW7BY
And the other guys have the beamtech versions in their trucks
https://www.amazon.com/BEAMTECH-Head.../dp/B06XHCQ8KY
They have a good cutoff like the halogen bulds as well as a functional high beam unlike a lot of options. There is no ballast they just plug right in. For the price these lights can’t be beat by anything else on the market today that I have been able to find.
Here is the thread in the 2017 forum discussing these lights if you want to read through it.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...eadlights.html
 
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no need for the can bus driver I don’t know what leds your looking at but you should take a look at these links and and threads before you buy there are a bunch of us that are having good luck with here’s my post with links to lights and other threads.


I bought these earlier today. https://www.auxbeam.com/headlight-bulbs/H13/88623541
 
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I hate to tell you bet those are not going to work well for you or on coming traffic nor will they have a functional high beam. You need lights with the leds in the same spot as the filaments of a halogen bulb would be in like the ones linked. If you can still cancel your order I would.
 
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I hate to tell you bet those are not going to work well for you or on coming traffic nor will they have a functional high beam. You need lights with the leds in the same spot as the filaments of a halogen bulb would be in like the ones linked. If you can still cancel your order I would.
so are they no good on my truck?
 
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so are they no good on my truck?
no the ones you ordered aren’t good. They will be bright especially compared to the halogens but the beam pattern an cut off will suck and will likely have lots of glare. I thought by including links and saying you need lights like these that I linked and to cancel your order if you still could was pretty clear that what you order is not going to work well for you. We’ve been looking for good led head lights here since led headlights came out, and these are the some best and for the price and amount or lack there of issues that guys have reported with them I have no problem saying they are the best option for us at this time. If you read through the thread I linked you will see lots of unbiased positive reviews for what I recommend instead.
 
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Originally Posted by Mike189677

no the ones you ordered aren’t good. They will be bright especially compared to the halogens but the beam pattern an cut off will suck and will likely have lots of glare. I thought by including links and saying you need lights like these that I linked and to cancel your order if you still could was pretty clear that what you order is not going to work well for you. We’ve been looking for good led head lights here since led headlights came out, and these are the some best and for the price and amount or lack there of issues that guys have reported with them I have no problem saying they are the best option for us at this time. If you read through the thread I linked you will see lots of unbiased positive reviews for what I recommend instead.
They shipped them faster than I could cancel,so I'm just gonna return them when they get here and probably buy the ones you linked me.
 
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