Has anyone tried a plug and play 9006 low beam LED bulb?

 

I tried similar bulbs in the high beams and results were meh. Yes they are bright...but notice in that ebay listing how there is a single LED. That thing probably has a beam width of 120 degrees...180 at most. The type of housing we have is made for normal halogen bulbs which emit light in all 360 degrees and then the housing will reflect the light out in an appropriate manner in front of you. Depending on how that LED bulb ends up sitting installed in the housing, it's only going to filling around half of the normal "beam coverage" you'd expect....some spots won't have any light at all. If that makes sense, I'm probably not describing it very well.

Ultimately LEDs are definitely up and coming, but these retrofit/plug and play type bulbs don't work well because the type of housings they are put in were never designed for the lights. If they were so great why aren't the big name companies selling these things in common 9006/9005 sizes etc. For daytime running lights, fog lights etc I don't see anything wrong with LEDs...I run them myself.

I truly think your best bet is to just save up for some proper housings with projectors and run HIDs. HIDs in stock housing isn't a good solution either, and fancy halogen bulbs and such won't be much better for the money..... put that money towards a projector housing/HID set. I got my setup from JWM and have been very happy with it.

 

... I have aca projectors and 55w hid's and you won't need high beams anymore... I did install a hi-4 harness and 80w cree led's in my high beams just to get peoples attention and they are bright as heck from the front but don't make much of a difference from the driver seat

 

I love my led bulbs. I smh at people that talk **** about them. Especially people that 1 have never had them or 2 have hidden agendas because they have a financial interest in putting them down.

That being said I had 9006 led 6400 lumens per set leds in stock housings and they were awesome. Now i have them in fixed projector housings I love them even better. They blow hids out of the water.

All the high end luxury cars are going led not hid. Look bmw has moved to leds because the technology and light out put has surpassed hids.

 

Has anyone tried these yet?

http://www.corvettemods.com/C5-Corve...t_p_11154.html

 

I have a different set of 9006 leds they emit more than twice the light output for about half the price.. i love them. Mine are 6400 lumens per set

 

Do you have the part number? Clicking that link takes me to main page.

 

Interested in a part # and link to said 6400 lumens per set LED bulbs

 

Where did you find these and whats the part #

 

These may be what he's talking about.


The comments generally say that HIDs are better & brighter. YMMV