I honestly think most of the mixed reviews comes from confusing what part of the bulb faces the 9 &3 orientation.
The pros have the exact same lenses as the luxx, so the cutoff should be similar. My pros have a very good cutoff line.
I didnt have any flickering, but didnt have them installed long enough to see long term.
It took me a while, but I ended up trading my brand new Morimoto's with somebody's 60k miles Lariats from the forum here. We both ended up happy, but financially I think he came out ahead a bit.
It's because they are projector housings, which have a cutoff line. The OEM housing area reflector housings, which shine light everywhere.
Roger that, that's what I was hoping for. Thanks!
Technically speaking, they're still not compatible. The Pro's are still using halogen specific reflectors. Yes, they do have a projector and a cutoff line (which makes it so you're not blinding other drivers), but from a performance standpoint they dont benefit from drop in LEDs over a high-powered halogen bulb. The physics of how an LED specific housing bounces light and how a halogen one does are fundamentally different. There are only 2 or 3 LED drop in bulbs that outperform stock halogen bulbs, and there are NONE that outperform the highest output halogen bulbs, in terms of Lux thrown down the road. There's a thread on the enemy's website that explains all of this. Posts 1 & 2 cover it pretty in depth. For me, you just cant beat science.
R; they're not compatible. The performance is still somewhat downgraded vs. running a bulb with a filament, but may still be better than stock.
I also want to add, thank you for stopping being a dick. So many forum members (and other a-holes with reflector only housings) run drop ins and blind others. The funniest part about it is that their down-road lighting is actually worse than when they were running halogens, and the uplight is limiting them from seeing further down the road.
For most of us the pro's projector housings with LED bulbs is 10x better than halogens whether they are halogens in a reflector or projector housing.Technically speaking, they're still not compatible. The Pro's are still using halogen specific reflectors. Yes, they do have a projector and a cutoff line (which makes it so you're not blinding other drivers), but from a performance standpoint they dont benefit from drop in LEDs over a high-powered halogen bulb. The physics of how an LED specific housing bounces light and how a halogen one does are fundamentally different. There are only 2 or 3 LED drop in bulbs that outperform stock halogen bulbs, and there are NONE that outperform the highest output halogen bulbs, in terms of Lux thrown down the road. There's a thread on the enemy's website that explains all of this. Posts 1 & 2 cover it pretty in depth. For me, you just cant beat science.
That all being said, I am running drop in LED's in my (inferior) tacoma. I have the hikari ultra "eyes of megatron" that they talk about in the above link. Those ones mimic the actual size (and most importantly for focus, the thickness) of a halogen filament. From a scientific standpoint the focal point for a halogen reflector is infinitely small. The smaller (while maintaining brightness) the filament or light source is, the more focussed it will be, and the further down the road it will shine. I know that the high end halogen bulb would technically perform better than my drop ins, but I have a projector in the low beam so I'm not blinding others, and its still a big improvement over stock performance. And to be completely frank, I wanted my headlight color to match the LED strip on the side of my lights.
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Again, I'll say - anecdotal evidence of what you "feel" like is a moot point. It doesn't matter. Data is the only thing that can actually stand on its own two legs with this argument, and data doesn't lie. It might feel like they're brighter because the light reflected right down in front of your truck is brighter, but 40' out (where it really matters) most bulbs are BAD, and for brights its even worse.
