ROY_H
Member Since: 30 Jun 2014
Location: South Hams Devon
Posts: 368
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Just Out Of Interest....... |
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Browsing The Bay (as you do!!) I've been interested to see the increase in LED H7 bulbs for headlights being listed.
Ranging from the obviously naff £2 specials to more expensive 'kits' which look like they require quite a bit of tinkering to fit and starting around £40
Anyone had experience of any of these in a D3/4 and are any of them any good as an improvement over the halogen ?
(Got the xenons as dip in mine and halogen in main) Morris Dancers: Drinkers with A Dance Problem
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15th Dec 2014 10:50 am |
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harvey6480
Member Since: 30 Apr 2012
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 116
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I tried the £20 ones, worse than candles.
I saw on piston heads someone had bought some h7 Cree led kits, £95-100 claimed to offer near HID aftermaket kit light output. They have built in cooling fans so look,the part.
Don't want to waste £100 finding out. My HIDs-4u are good but do get worse with age, they last approx 50,000 miles which is only a year for me . They also take approx 15 seconds to get to full brightness so no good for main beam
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15th Dec 2014 4:39 pm |
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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
Posts: 19689
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light pattern is entirely wrong for the reflector - you'll end up with lots of light in all the wrong places. Better off getting Osram Nightbreaker Unlimited if you want more light I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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15th Dec 2014 6:46 pm |
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ROY_H
Member Since: 30 Jun 2014
Location: South Hams Devon
Posts: 368
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Yep...I can see that having tried some of the earlier ones in my D2.......absolute pants.
just that you see a lot of new cars being specced with LED headlights so I guess the technology is starting to mature. Morris Dancers: Drinkers with A Dance Problem
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15th Dec 2014 8:25 pm |
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