I'm bound and determined to go LED. I can get the LED bulbs but many people highly recommended projector headlight housings. This is where I'm falling short. I don't know much about them and whether or not I can get a housing that will allow me to accommodate for them. My truck currently uses a 9004 bulb so that would be the plug I would want to shoot for. I guess it really would not matter? Looks like the harness for the bulbs don't have much of any kind of specific plug for them. I think the bigger issue is the bulb style mounting in the housing.

 

Another thing that gets me is that it appears the projector housings use a separate bulb for low and high. I can get dual projector housings as that would be the whole reason in getting a projector housing in the first place! Why would I want to handicap myself with an old style bulb on low beam and then have a projector lens on high? I want bright light ALL the time! Obviously, I just don't want it in oncoming traffics faces.

 

Does anyone have experience in this area? I'm not interested in retrofits or DIY, per se.. I just want the bulbs, the housing, wire the dang things up and have some real headlights for a change! The headlights I have now practically need buffed every year and even spending top dollar on the best bulbs I can get off the shelf just don't cut it for me anymore. Living on this rural county road has helped me net some pretty close calls in just the couple years I have lived out here. Getting that light down the road will certainly help me see them sooner if they are out there!

 

BTW, I also placed an order for a 52" LED light bar and 'am going to use that in my country road driving arsenal! Heck, I've even been blinded out by the local sheriffs using their light bars. Time to smarten up!

I have seen the cheap ones yellow very quickly. Talking ebay level stuff.

12 hours ago, Royal Squire said:

Great idea. Thanks 

  Once you find one and get it installed it's hilarious how bright they are.  My setup looked liked a second sun coming down the road with everything on.  Pictures and videos don't do justice of how bright the big bars are in my opinion.  I will say about my 50", I was scared beyond belief someone would steal it....any of my lighting for that matter.  I was extremely cautious of where I parked.  I'm a worry wort with my automobiles.  

Man, I never thought about someone stealing a lite bar! I lead a sheltered life. Guess that's a good reason to buy a cheapie!

My son has one(50")mounted to luggage rack on his suburban. He bought it used and unable to tell brand but lights up the world. When my wife saw it, she decided it was a must have. 

 

19 hours ago, Royal Squire said:

Guess that's a good reason to buy a cheapie!

 

...and expect cheap quality light too... There is a reason why the more expensive light bars exist... Most likely they put out more quality light. 

8 hours ago, Mopar1973Man said:

 

...and expect cheap quality light too... There is a reason why the more expensive light bars exist... Most likely they put out more quality light. 

 

I just got done installing my light bar. WOW!

 

I'm excited to see what it can do for me going down the country road. 

 

I'll get some pics when i can. 

What brand did you get 

I currently have 5 Auxbeam LED lights on my truck, 2 spots under the rear bumper, 2 spots on my headache rack and a 20" bar on the grill guard.  I installed all of them last summer, they all still work great, no yellowing, no moisture accumulation and they definitely got wet this winter.  I paid $40 for all 4 spots and $50 for the bar, all on Amazon.  I plan on getting a 30" bar to replace the 20" so it completely fills the gap on my grill guard. 

 

 

I got an auxbeam. 52 inch curved 5d lens style. Bought a set of apoc brackets to mount it. The harness that came with it leaves to be desired for some. Might buy a different one or just swap the switch. The gauge size is a little small. Gets warm but it has an in line fuse at least. 

I don't think this picture does it justice. It's really bright! My headlights don't even compare. I could turn my headlights off and not even know!

 

I have noticed a couple immediate drawbacks, though. With the light mounted up, it puts a good amount of light on the hood even. So it was a bit difficult to adapt to. Makes seeing things out further challenging. Although, i saw ALLOT. Wind noise is terrible. If i go faster than 30, it's deafening. Going to have to put some door stripping on the fins.

 

Gotta figure out what to do about the light hitting the hood though...

Edited March 30, 20178 yr by hex0rz

@hex0rz I got my hids done enough last night to set cutoff. Still need to get the height right and my phone does not do it justice at all. I have pics to upload but on a stupid laptop today so no photobucket.

You can upload the pics to the site.

That is why some have mounted further back. The reflection off the hood will cause night blindness. I have a smallish 32" mounted to my bumper. It puts out more than enough for me. I might mount one in the headache rack when I get around to building it. Just as a work light/ get off my butt light for tailgaters.

Ah schweet. OK middle pic is pnp leds. You can see the hot spots. 1st and 3rd are the hids. I only was able to set cut off last night as far as being level. They need to come up quite a bit from the little bit of driving I did last night. And ignore the oil on the ground. Stupid gear box is leaking. Steering box should be here any day.

Edited March 30, 20178 yr by jlbayes

I found a source for a deflector/visor. I might make my own or buy. 

 

http://www.justoffroad.org

 

I'll be taking care of the fin noise next..

17 hours ago, hex0rz said:

Wind noise is terrible. If i go faster than 30, it's deafening. Going to have to put some door stripping on the fins.

 

 

 

Forgot to mention you're going to run into this...but it is fixable.  It does sound like you're about to get sucked into Dante's Inferno. 

 

I never had a reflection issue with the hood on my JK but my bar was a "combo" light pattern.  It's a spot for the middle (30") and then the two ends were a flood pattern (10") for a total of 50".    

Edited March 31, 20178 yr by sooxies

Then I come along and just finished my sport headlight relay mod. I need to get photos at night time of the lighting. Not as good as @hex0rz or @jlbayes but at least there is more light than stock headlights with fogged up lens.  Yes, I did figure out a way to reduce the previous 4 relay and 4 fuse kits to 2 relays and 1 fuse kit. This will make them much cheaper to produce. 

 

High beams with my fog lights. Of course, the fog light overwhelm the headlights.

Edited April 4, 20178 yr by Mopar1973Man

Nice to live where there's no street lights, you can see the difference with upgraded headlites too.

Since this came on fb...again....these are what people see when driving at you with pnp led or hids.

I am gonna get pictures tonight of the above and below cutoff.  

 

Hard to argue with pictures.