Several of the reviews call them flood lights. If you run them on rural roads (rather than dirt) too much stray light ends up blinding you, coming off reflective road signs.
A lot of manufacturers quote the output of their lights based on the full output of the combined LED elements- 37 presumably 5W chips. They're usually regulated to a fraction of that. I'd like to see a bench test with a current measurement on these.
That was my thoughts as well cannot really believe Jeep put that trashy of a headlight in the truck should have been LED in all of them for the price. Hell even my wife old cheapy car had LED Lights all around
I got the headlights and used the tazer to set the headlights to LED and it reduced the glare.
Interesting. I don’t have snow to worry about in Austin, but plan on buying a Tazer soon.I got the headlights and used the tazer to set the headlights to LED and it reduced the glare.
Driving in wet snow coated the headlights.
No offense but your light pattern looks horrible. There is scattered light and random hotspots all over the road. Yes it's bright but I guarantee you are blinding people. I can see the glare in the photos. Your picture demonstrates exactly why LED bulbs do not belong in the reflector housingPersonally, I did not think it was worth the $1k. I decided to add other options that were more important to me, and then upgrade the LEDs myself. Just did an inexpensive bulb swap last night on all the front lights, and for only about $90 total. Eventually, I’ll swap the headlights for some Oracles or something, but I’m completely happy with the setup I have now and the headlights has a nice cut off line.
Impressive you can make that assumption based off a picture. To note, the pictures were taken using an IPhone 11, which is known to have some issues taking night photos of lights, due to the the lens design reflecting light. As mentioned before, the headlight LED bulb replacement is a temporary solution for me, since I plan to replace with a quality full aftermarket housing at around a $500 price point.
It's not an assumption. You took a picture of your headlight and you're light pattern. You can see the hotspots. They are there. It's not created by the iPhone. I see this exact thing with led bulbs pretty much every time. I am very familiar with hikari lights.... many people try to use them on motorcycles (One of my passions) and I see the same effect. If you park side-by-side to another gladiator with projector housings you will see exactly what I'm talking about... and the difference will be very obvious. Be careful driving with that set up in fog...
Maybe both of you could agree to disagree - and move on? You have both expressed your opinions and neither will convince the other. Let's hear from someone else.
I’m not offended. As mentioned, this is only a temporary $28 solution prior to purchasing $500 quality aftermarket complete housings. I never stated the led bulbs were as good as Mopar $900 units, nor would I expect them to be. It’s all good.
I am not expressing an opinion other than how I believe it looks. The hotspots are a fact. I can circle them on the picture. I can circle the glare on the picture. This is also a matter of experience in dealing with these types of lights before so I know exactly what I am looking for. I'm not trying to convince him of anything. Reality is reality and if you understand what you're looking at then the picture obviously demonstrates what I'm talking about. Providing information it's not trying to convince anything.. if a conversation is too intense for you to read perhaps you should skip this post
