LED Headlights

[hpi_matrix]

As every other gobshite on the road seems to have lights brighter then the sun has anyone on here changed their candles to LED lights with any success?

 

Yes, I've already tried Osram night breakers that are 0.01% better then normal bulbs.

[rainagain]

Yes, fitted a decent pair to my Volvo. They are excellent, I just need to fit some resistors to stop the failed bulb warning.

 

They were a bit of a pita to fit, I had to remove the bulb holding clip, fit them them refit the clip, rather than simply swinging the clip out of the way as you do with a normal bulb

[hpi_matrix]

Yes, fitted a decent pair to my Volvo. They are excellent, I just need to fit some resistors to stop the failed bulb warning.

 

They were a bit of a pita to fit, I had to remove the bulb holding clip, fit them them refit the clip, rather than simply swinging the clip out of the way as you do with a normal bulb

 

Got a link to where you bought them?

[rainagain]

On motorway

[rainagain]

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/COB-LED-72W-8000LM-Car-Headlight-Bulb-6000K-H1-H3-H4-H7-H11-H13-9005-9006-9007-/252246032183?var=&hash=item3abb08ff37%3Am%3AmcwITerXMKxF3MT7wRK7K6g&_trkparms=pageci%253Acc87ca92-cf60-11e6-a37d-74dbd1804696%257Cparentrq%253A552a02951590a5eb2204f9c7ffc2cfd3%257Ciid%253A1

[tooSavvy]

.... my dipped hlight come on (50% power) 'dim' with the Sidelights selected only.... then 100% dipped on next click.

 

never had a car do that

 

 

TS

[Richard]

.... my dipped hlight come on (50% power) 'dim' with the Sidelights selected only.... then 100% dipped on next click.

 

never had a car do that

 

 

TS

 

Have you not? I think it was standard on all UK market cars for a short while in the late 80s.

[Pillock]

Is that "dim dip"?

I've not seen that on any cars I've owned though. Always had a separate sidelight bulb.

[tooSavvy]

Is that "dim dip"?

I've not seen that on any cars I've owned though. Always had a separate sidelight bulb.

 

...aye, I have a separate sidelight (very bright btw) in the wing corners... just never seen 1/2 headlight before

 

 

TS

[rainagain]

Have you not? I think it was standard on all UK market cars for a short while in the late 80s.

I had it in my 1988 Nova

[Junkman]

I did the opposite. Ripped out the newfangled H4s and installed good old Sealed Beams to reduce* safety*.

[tommotech]

My 89 Astra had dim-dip, however fitting 80/100 watt rally bulbs blew the resistor module.

[tooSavvy]

THIS.......

 

 

 

 

TS

[M'coli]

Can't read them, TS- not big enough.

[tooSavvy]

Can't read them, TS- not big enough.

 

FTFY

 

TS

[cobblers]

Fitting anything other than normal bulbs in a traditional "reflector" headlight has about a 90% chance of completely fucking up the beam throw pattern in one way or another - the reflector is designed around the size and location of the filament, and putting LEDs in means the light producing area is much bigger and doesn't radiate sideways at all.

 

If you want to upgrade the lights, you can get "projector retrofit" kits which drop into your existing lights.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-5-Bi-Xenon-Retrofit-Projector-Lens-H1-Bulbs-HID-Conversion-Kit-Shroud-Combo-/131908980910?hash=item1eb66350ae:g:cbcAAOSwRJ9XhzUs

 

These should probably only be used on lights with smooth glass (not the ridged stuff like owt pre 2000 ish)

[Fabergé Greggs]

On my Vespa where the headlight is AC, presumably the LED would be half the brightness assuming it could withstand the backwards current on half the cycle.

 

Maybe I could half wave rectify it with a diode or full wave rectify it.. is there a way to do that in a compact package?

[Guest Hooli]

Maybe I could half wave rectify it with a diode or full wave rectify it.. is there a way to do that in a compact package?

 

Get a reg/rec off a proper motorbike & fit that in?

[SiC]

On my Vespa where the headlight is AC, presumably the LED would be half the brightness assuming it could withstand the backwards current on half the cycle.

 

Maybe I could half wave rectify it with a diode or full wave rectify it.. is there a way to do that in a compact package?

You mean like a bridge rectifier?

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/kbpc3504-35a-bridge-rectifier-ar87u

 

Plus a beefy capacitor to stop flickering (the battery may be sufficient to do this though).

[Squire_Dawson]

The Lucas sealed beam units are excellent, just as good if not better than H4 bulbs. They were a vast improvement over the old round bulbs which were rated at 60/45w whereas sealed beam were 75/60w. I used to travel to Hull on the M62 and with the old round bulbs on quiet unlit sections of motorway it was unnerving, you could not see far enough to do 60 MPH. It was like having a pair of Tilley lamps up front.

If driving at night was unpleasant 50 years ago due to glare, it is now hellish and will become more so when the lunatic 'engineers' fit laser lights. Of the many reasons I will not have a modern car is the fact that many of them now have those blue-white lights which I find very cold and depressing. If the warm glow of a filament lamp was good enough for the Edwardians it's good enough for me.

[FakeConcern]

Is that "dim dip"?

I've not seen that on any cars I've owned though. Always had a separate sidelight bulb.

I had a 1988 XR3i with dim dip, I thought it was a good idea and much better than DRL they have now as back lights are on as well and they didn't remove any retinas if they were left on at night.

[gm]

The Lucas sealed beam units are excellent, just as good if not better than H4 bulbs. They were a vast improvement over the old round bulbs which were rated at 60/45w whereas sealed beam were 75/60w. I used to travel to Hull on the M62 and with the old round bulbs on quiet unlit sections of motorway it was unnerving, you could not see far enough to do 60 MPH. It was like having a pair of Tilley lamps up front.

If driving at night was unpleasant 50 years ago due to glare, it is now hellish and will become more so when the lunatic 'engineers' fit laser lights. Of the many reasons I will not have a modern car is the fact that many of them now have those blue-white lights which I find very cold and depressing. If the warm glow of a filament lamp was good enough for the Edwardians it's good enough for me.

 

I have a spare sealed beam if it's any good to you ?

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/10525-shitecycle-free-to-a-new-home/?p=1103126

[Bianconeri]

As every other gobshite on the road seems to have lights brighter then the sun has anyone on here changed their candles to LED lights with any success?

 

Yes, I've already tried Osram night breakers that are 0.01% better then normal bulbs.

My everyday newbie has LED lights, they are bright (as in they light up half of Wiltshire). They are only useful insofar as every halfwit down here seems to think they need to light up the whole of England and blind every other driver in the county.

[Richard]

Is that "dim dip"?

I've not seen that on any cars I've owned though. Always had a separate sidelight bulb.

 

There's always been a separate sidelight bulb, but with dim dip you didn't get the option to drive on sidelights alone- and rightly so, because they are parking lights. As I recall it was made a UK requirement but the EU wasn't having it so it was quietly dropped. My 1995 Volvo 940 had dim dip, with the added bonus of not being able to turn the sidelights off either, but my 1996 850 doesn't have it.

[forddeliveryboy]

Does a full Brexit mean dimdip will return? 

[Pillock]

Drop the PM a line and make sure there's a separate vote for that. I don't give a shit about free trade, but our bulbs are nobody's business but ours.

[Guest Hooli]

I had dimdip on my Disco, one of the first things I did was disconnect it. I'm quite capable of knowing how far to move the lightswitch thanks.

[HillmanImp]

The mrs got a newish car a couple of years back (I pretty much refused to drive her turquoise Mazda 2 before she crashed it) and it became apparent that my inability to drive at night because of the glare from these fucking twats with some sort of god complex who think they are on the Lombard RAC rally, is because of lots of tiny sctatches on my old yet MOT legal windscreens on all my cars.

 

The windscreens are cleaned all the time in winter but with normal wear they pick up scratches which makes them unsafe IMO with modern cars. New windscreens have very little glare.

 

Bunch of arse mate.

[Noel Tidybeard]

iirc dim dip was allowed to die a death as it cant/wont work with HID

[Squire_Dawson]

I have a spare sealed beam if it's any good to you ?

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/10525-shitecycle-free-to-a-new-home/?p=1103126

 

Thanks very much for the offer but it's the rectangular one I could do with!