[instalher]

Well I just installed my h7 led headlights in low beam. and well they look great, but just not bright enough, so out they come and I think I will upgrade to a h7r 35 watt low beam hid, and a h7r 55watt hid high beam kit for the car, THAT should be enough light for me.

[carmo]

Originally Posted by instalher

Well I just installed my h7 led headlights in low beam. and well they look great, but just not bright enough, so out they come and I think I will upgrade to a h7r 35 watt low beam hid, and a h7r 55watt hid high beam kit for the car, THAT should be enough light for me.

cool. Do you have halogens now? If so I wouldn't mind hearing how you find them. Pics of what the cutoff looks like would be great too

[963mw]

Originally Posted by instalher

Well I just installed my h7 led headlights in low beam. and well they look great, but just not bright enough, so out they come and I think I will upgrade to a h7r 35 watt low beam hid, and a h7r 55watt hid high beam kit for the car, THAT should be enough light for me.

Depends what LED generation kit you have. A new one was released very recently and has a 4000lm output.

[instalher]

I purchased gen 5. series... and the cutoff is weak at best. so I angled the driver side down 5 degrees, went out for a boot downtown and no flashing, then out on the back roads, seemed ok,, but once up to hiway speeds, I overran the lights. so hid 55 watters, for high beam next.

[963mw]

Originally Posted by instalher

I purchased gen 5. series... and the cutoff is weak at best. so I angled the driver side down 5 degrees, went out for a boot downtown and no flashing, then out on the back roads, seemed ok,, but once up to hiway speeds, I overran the lights. so hid 55 watters, for high beam next.

Sounds good, just make sure it won't glare in the stock housing!

[RarScaryFrosty]

Originally Posted by instalher

Well I just installed my h7 led headlights in low beam. and well they look great, but just not bright enough, so out they come and I think I will upgrade to a h7r 35 watt low beam hid, and a h7r 55watt hid high beam kit for the car, THAT should be enough light for me.

I think your problem is that you're placing a bi-directional LED light into an omni directional reflector housing. I have a H7 led kit in a projector lamp and it's brighter than 10,000 suns.

[7117]

Pictures please 🤔

[rustyminded]

be careful the high beam is too small to fit any headlight kit but 3rd generation from cree i tried 5th my self 3000lm and didn't fit.. if you have any ideas how to fit them tell me please

[ATL0501]

Yeah please post pictures guys for everyone. Cutoff lines, brightness, etc.

[963mw]

Originally Posted by rustyminded

be careful the high beam is too small to fit any headlight kit but 3rd generation from cree i tried 5th my self 3000lm and didn't fit.. if you have any ideas how to fit them tell me please

Did you try to change it from near the wheel well? I know that's the only way for me to access my Xenon lights, so maybe that also applies to the high beams?

[ACR3597]

What LED conversion kits are you guy talking about?

[ji99lypuff]

They're talking about the led light bulb that replaces the current h7 halogen bulb. Its not so much a kit as it is a light bulb.

[instalher]

its just a plug and play replacement bulb, just pull off the tire, remove old bulb and place in new led one, done.. 10 min, must use a canbus eliminator tho...

[squidlyboy]

Originally Posted by 963mw

Sounds good, just make sure it won't glare in the stock housing!

For the life of me... don't understand why people would put after-market LED bulbs into their halogen headlights with just the reflectors. Same as putting after-market HIDs in there to replace the halogen bulbs... Why would you want to be 'that guy' that throws light out everywhere to on-coming motorists?

But more than that.. i'm curious why OEM LED headlights nowadays (e.g. like the BMW replicas that OnEightyNY / Umnitza copied and came out with) come without projectors? Yah, ok, if its OEM, i guess the manufacturer matches the bulb to the reflector, and makes sure that it won't throw light everywhere, but the projected light looks like complete shit. After looking at bi-xenons + projectors and their laser sharp cut-offs, doing LEDs minus projectors is going backwards.

Has anyone posted their BMW LED or OneEightyNY or Umnitza cutoffs yet?

But I guess with cost-cutting nowadays, it makes perfect sense ...

[963mw]

Originally Posted by squidlyboy

For the life of me... don't understand why people would put after-market LED bulbs into their halogen headlights with just the reflectors. Same as putting after-market HIDs in there to replace the halogen bulbs... Why would you want to be 'that guy' that throws light out everywhere to on-coming motorists?

But more than that.. i'm curious why OEM LED headlights nowadays (e.g. like the BMW replicas that OnEightyNY / Umnitza came out with) come without projectors? Yah, ok, if its OEM, i guess the manufacturer matches the bulb to the reflector, and makes sure that it won't throw light everywhere, but the projected light looks like complete shit. After looking at bi-xenons + projectors and their laser sharp cut-offs, doing LEDs minus projectors is going backwards.

Has anyone posted their BMW LED or OneEightyNY or Umnitza cutoffs yet?

But I guess with cost-cutting nowadays, it makes perfect sense ...

I'm 100% with you on the whole glare issue, but you really need to see the new LED Bulbs. A new generation of LEDs has recently been rolled out (Name is Phillips ZES) and the cutoff on them is 90% like that of a normal halogen bulb. Another LED Generation with similar results is the XP50. The older you go in the LED generations, the worse it gets.

I don't have a Philips ZES LED kit yet, but I do have the XP50 on my Toyota Land Cruiser (Low Beam), Mini Cooper Countryman S (Fogs), 435i (Fogs), as well as having them installed in my friend's 2015 Yukon (Each of high and low beam are replaced with them) and trust me there is 0 glare.

Edit: I encoruage you to get in touch with Zain from HorizonLED, he'll be more than happy to provide you with all the details on the new LED bulbs (cutoff, range...).

[rustyminded]

Originally Posted by squidlyboy

For the life of me... don't understand why people would put after-market LED bulbs into their halogen headlights with just the reflectors. Same as putting after-market HIDs in there to replace the halogen bulbs... Why would you want to be 'that guy' that throws light out everywhere to on-coming motorists?

But more than that.. i'm curious why OEM LED headlights nowadays (e.g. like the BMW replicas that OnEightyNY / Umnitza copied and came out with) come without projectors? Yah, ok, if its OEM, i guess the manufacturer matches the bulb to the reflector, and makes sure that it won't throw light everywhere, but the projected light looks like complete shit. After looking at bi-xenons + projectors and their laser sharp cut-offs, doing LEDs minus projectors is going backwards.

Has anyone posted their BMW LED or OneEightyNY or Umnitza cutoffs yet?

But I guess with cost-cutting nowadays, it makes perfect sense ...

Where i live conversation to my currency is very expensive so i came up with a project for people here to convert to LED.. I'll make a post you'll be impressed

[squidlyboy]

Go ahead. Make my day