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Are LED bulbs / headlights ok for use on any modern car , plug and play , or is some more wiring involved
Quite keen on some myself .Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
[quote=”Commodore665″ post=160615]Are LED bulbs / headlights ok for use on any modern car , plug and play , or is some more wiring involved
Quite keen on some myself .Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/quote]
As you can see in the video it was plug and play.
I’ve ordered a set for my Civic, so I’m looking forward to it.
One thing I didn’t see covered in the video was the LED Decoder option. MotorFiend’s description of what the decoder was and did made sense, but I wonder about your take on it.
This is cut from MotorFiend’s website:
** LED Decoders ** – recommended for all post 2007 vehicles with electronic headlight systems. CANBUS vehicle systems were mandatory on all US vehicles from 2008. Changing the headlight bulbs in a vehicle using CANBUS may cause faults or error codes. Our LED decoders eliminate these issues in 99% of vehicles. –Did your kit have them? if not, did you have any issues?
-Hinoki
In most european countries this would be illegal. The headlight E-approval is only valid when the headlight has a correct type of bulb installed, the one it was designed for. Some sellers on ebay and similar places try to convince people it’s ok since their bulbs have E-approval (or at least they are marked so), but this is incorrect; it doesn’t matter if the bulb has an E-approval if the bulb is not the correct type for the headlight. This is why we have markings on the headlights for HC/HCR and DC/DCR, which mean Halogen and Discharge.
There simply is no legal way to use LEDs in stock headlights over here, you need to replace the entire housing. Which just is not practical.
With that said, I’m in the process of retrofitting a quad projector setup on my Saab 9000. With LED bulbs. It will be illegal but at least it’ll have a proper beam pattern, manual leveling and washers…
[quote=”Mawerick” post=160678]In most european countries this would be illegal. The headlight E-approval is only valid when the headlight has a correct type of bulb installed, the one it was designed for. Some sellers on ebay and similar places try to convince people it’s ok since their bulbs have E-approval (or at least they are marked so), but this is incorrect; it doesn’t matter if the bulb has an E-approval if the bulb is not the correct type for the headlight. This is why we have markings on the headlights for HC/HCR and DC/DCR, which mean Halogen and Discharge.
There simply is no legal way to use LEDs in stock headlights over here, you need to replace the entire housing. Which just is not practical.
With that said, I’m in the process of retrofitting a quad projector setup on my Saab 9000. With LED bulbs. It will be illegal but at least it’ll have a proper beam pattern, manual leveling and washers…[/quote]
I’m going there next with my Element in a future video. Thanks for your comment.
You’d be proud of me, Eric.
I have joined an exclusive club.
What club, you ask?
The club of people that have violated the laws of physics and somehow managed to install this LED bulb upside-down.
The funny part is that it had enough of a beam pattern to highlight the road ahead well enough, but there was this blob of light somewhere in the trees that’d keep following me… Saw -every- street sign for a mile down the road, too.
Figured that wasn’t right and so I took another look at it. Un-installed the driver’s side bulb and figure out how to do it properly. If interested, I’ll go into greater detail (despite it making me feel even -more- foolish…) but I’ll try to spare myself the humiliation. 😉
Cheers!
-Hinoki
PS: I bet the beam pattern’ll be a LOT better now…
[quote=”Hinoki” post=160916]You’d be proud of me, Eric.
I have joined an exclusive club.
What club, you ask?
The club of people that have violated the laws of physics and somehow managed to install this LED bulb upside-down.
The funny part is that it had enough of a beam pattern to highlight the road ahead well enough, but there was this blob of light somewhere in the trees that’d keep following me… Saw -every- street sign for a mile down the road, too.
Figured that wasn’t right and so I took another look at it. Un-installed the driver’s side bulb and figure out how to do it properly. If interested, I’ll go into greater detail (despite it making me feel even -more- foolish…) but I’ll try to spare myself the humiliation. 😉
Cheers!
-Hinoki
PS: I bet the beam pattern’ll be a LOT better now…[/quote]
We’re all guilty of stuff like that at one point or another.
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