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Offline missmouse

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LED h/lamps?
« on: 14 August 2019, 15:47 »
anyone tried to fit an LED headlamp bulb conversion to these cars? I bought a set off Amazon ( fits most cars!) LOL, unfortunately I found our cars dont have same arrangement as most others & the bulbs are held in a plastic thing that acts as a connector too so cant see how to fit my LEDs! Anybody come up with any way to do this?

Offline SRGTD

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Re: LED h/lamps?
« Reply #1 on: 14 August 2019, 23:47 »
Not tried this but if you do get them to fit, you may find they don’t improve your night time visibility - it might actually be worse than with your existing halogen bulbs.

Fitting LED’s in reflector headlamp units designed for halogen bulbs is very likely to produce a poor beam pattern with a high degree of light scatter that’ll dazzle oncoming motorists. It might be better to upgrade your halogen bulbs with something like Osram Night Breakers or Philips Xtreme Vision.
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