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Old 12-10-2011, 12:03 AM
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There are a ton of sellers selling these as fog/headlights.. Would they work.. Has anyone tried them?? That's a ton of LEDs so it's possible it'd be bright enough. You wouldn't have to wait on them to fire up like xenons and the white looks around 6000k because they are LED.
 
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Um, link please.
 
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Hey, do you mean this? I saw it on eBay.

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2 reasons to stay away from them.
There would be a problem with the lows and highs by using an led bulb like this
And also, led's don't project like stock headlights. Everybody found this out the hard way by installing led's for there reverse (back-up) lights. They emitted crap. haha.

Look at this youtube video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4kpnVSKNc[/youtube]
 

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Those are 250 lumens, regular halogens are around 1500-2500 lumens. You won't see anything with those.
 
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Those are 250 lumens, regular halogens are around 1500-2500 lumens. You won't see anything with those.
In a nutshell, that's what I explained above. Led's don't make good headlights. It would take waaaaay too many of them.
 
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Sorry, you snuck that edit in on me.
 
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Sorry, you snuck that edit in on me.
My bad Thooooog!
 
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Well if you want led headlights that actually work expect to pay the price.
40" E-Series LED Light Bar
 
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I meant thease.. I thought I put the link in there.. oops lol..

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I meant thease.. I thought I put the link in there.. oops lol..

eBay - New & used electronics, cars, apparel, collectibles, sporting goods & more at low prices
Yeah, those are the same as the H4's I posted above, just in a different form to fit our headlights. And they will perform like the H4's above. Good if your up close and have your eyes glued to the headlight, but beyond that, crap. So I wouldn't waste your money on them and then find out they are not what you expected.
 


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