LED Headlights, anyone try these?

[RBEmerson]

[phishnbtv]

USPS strikes again with late shipping. I have all the parts to do my South African Grill with the exception of the headlight harness from Van Cafe. The headlight harnesses sold just make things easier to play and play correct? Is there any reason I couldnt just splice on some blade connections wrap them with some electrical tape and call it good?

[?Waldo?]

The ones that I got came with two H13 to H4 adapters. You could use the H4 end to splice in easily enough. I personally like soldered connections with heat shrink tubing over them, but wrapped together and covered with electrical tape would work.

[phishnbtv]

Just a quick update now that I've had my grill and lights in for a little over a week and put around 800 miles on the van with them. I went with the lights from amazon that heidi85ho and ?Waldo? are running, I'm sure there are higher quality options out there but for the $90 or so I paid on amazon I couldn't pass them up. All in all I'm really impressed and they're a massive improvement over my old rectangular lights.

I was tight on time so I had to get the parts from a few different vendors to try and keep shipping costs reasonable. Grill and inners from Bus Depot, GW buckets from RMW, wiring harness from RMW, and LED lights linked in this thread from Amazon.

All in all I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them if you're looking for a big improvement over your stock square headlights.

[RBEmerson]

FWIW, pulling the 9004's and dropping in LED equivalent in my square lights worked like a charm. I have aiming issues (much too low) but I also have the replacement aiming bits, too.

The remaining challenge is finding bright H3 replacements. I thought I'd found a winner until I read the output - 3000 lumens. Fail.
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[RBEmerson]

Scrolling through eBay, I finally found some high output (burn the yellow stripe off the road) LED's. If I have the data right, the total draw is about 38 A???

Is that right or is there some jiggery-pokery to drop the load to something more rational. I have the relay kit, but I'm challenged to see how wish away 38 A.
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[?Waldo?]

[?Waldo?]

I thought I'd post up a link to an Amazon seller that appears to be selling the same headlights that I purchased previously for a few dollars less. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074T7JS1L/ref=pe_58340_286803320_em_1p_1_ti

Amazon just sent me a coupon for 6% off for Jeep JK parts. I decided to get another set for my van that currently has the euro H4's, relays, and high wattage bulbs. When I got to the checkout screen, Amazon had also applied a promo. The promo was - $4.40. The coupon was -$5.28. Free shipping. The total cost to my door was $78.32! That's an amazing price for some amazing headlights.

[elizer]

I hope you paid $100 for the expert installation!

[?Waldo?]

If a penny saved is a penny earned (actually a penny saved is 1-1/3 pennies earned due to taxes...) then I guess I paid myself accordingly.

[the_last1]

[the_last1]

[the_last1]

Figured it out! The original lights that still say "german republic distribution" on them had a built in headlight trim, so when I was going to replace them the trim piece was never there. Ordered them and then the lights will be dialed
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[RBEmerson]

[16CVs]

Thinking of going backwards here. I installed Relays years ago when I put big halogen bulbs in my van. I then removed them and installed HID and now have removed those and installed "Morimoto 2 Stroke 3.0" as well as "Morimoto 2 stroke H3" .

I am now wondering if the relays are unneeded and just another point of failure. Speak up, all opinions welcome.

They only pull 22W per bulb which is less than half of regular bulbs.

Stacy
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[RBEmerson]

Nope - relay not needed. 22 watts is less than the OEM bulbs, let alone halogen bulbs.

But... if you've already installed relays, no need to take them out.
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[llilibel03]

Funny I come back to this thread years later and find it had posts just a couple weeks ago.

I'm considering going LED. I'm wondering how Waldo's and Heidi's lights have held up? Still happy campers?
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[RBEmerson]

FWIW, I bumped up to higher watts - more's always better! They're basically, no-name with specs that seemed to be a close fit to what I want.

I changed to the GW Euro-pattern lenses, and count the setup as a win. Truth is, I can't see staying with anything but LED's. No ballast issues, no burning out, no relays and high amp wiring. KISS and go LED. :)
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[dkoesyncro]

I know they are pricey but what do folks think or have used the Osram LEDriving lights?

[1988M5]