I've posted this before, no matter how hard we try those headlights are 20 year old technology.

You cannot beat good auxiliary lighting like the ss3 from @Diode Dynamics.

 

I’m gonna run the Alpharex on my Excursions when I replace later this year.

 

Are you going halogen or LED?

 

LED!
I bought a set for my wife’s Suburban and they are awesome! The projectors seem to be very high quality with great light spread and they do not blind oncoming traffic.

 

It’s funny how you can be blinding every one on the road but you yourself cant see where you are going. If sticking with the same bulb I have had luck with the sylvania silverstars. Nice upgrade minimal effort and cost. I have not had issues with short life, probably 10 years old. Unfortunately using the housing you have I would say LED or HID will throw so much glare you will be getting beamed constantly. You need a HID projector housing to get clean cut off, no glare, and good visibility. Back in the day there were some high end build to order headlights. They would take a OEM housing disassembly it and install a projector, they were around $800.

 

Definitely keep us posted

 

I just replaced mine with some new oem ones. I guess I'm just use to it.

 

I bought some like yours off Ebay. They are just over three years old. One has moisture inside the lens and both lenses look like they're deteriorating on the outside of them since they are plastic. Hope yours does better.

 

I have super bright led headlights which I love, but the units are plastic which I absolutely loathe so I'm definitely wanting to switch to glass units one day soon here.

 

WPG - the led’s focus well in a stock housing? Maybe some pictures at night against a garage door. My experience with leds in a huge housing like this is blotchy lighting and blinding everyone. And we are talking about 03-07 headlights right? No glass options unless this is a township truck or something the sealed beam lights. At least not to my knowledge.

 

My truck has an 8" lift so I'm certain oncoming traffic gets more low beam than they should, but considering everyone else keeps their high beams on 24/7 I'm not inclined to give a damn honestly!

And I didn't know glass housings were not an option on our 03-07 trucks and sure I'll post up pics later today of my headlight spread. Not sure why everyone finds it so hard to believe LEDs work good, but not my problem if people want to live in the stone age lol 😆

 

It’s not living in the stone ages it’s my experience with large housings that do a poor job of focusing the light. I have better luck with HIDs in big housings.

 

I think my lights are 20,000 lumens or something crazy light that so maybe lower lumen led's would suck I dunno. All I can say is on low beam I have great coverage and high beam I can see a clear mile easy lol.

 

The size of the housing isn't really the problem, its' the reflector housings. Your average LEDs aren't going to do well with a bunch of mirrors, they do great with actual focusing lens' though.

I have alpharexs, I put in some leds from auxito for the projectors and they are bright and I love them.

This is with just the running lights on, I have on multiple occasions forgot to turn on the headlights all the way because the running light C bars are bright enough lol

 

Just ordered a set for my 05 , how hard are they to adjust ?

 

Making headlights bright is easy, getting the cut off right so you aren’t blinding everyone on the road and small creatures up in the trees is the hard part. Need pictures.

 

That’s a lot better than I would think it would be.
I had an autozone special in my OEM housings, it did not look anywhere as good as that cut off lol

 

Yeah they're fkn great imho! Told yah 😉

Being 8 inches higher I get flashed now and then, but with the ridiculous amount of people who keep high beams on all the time I'm not worried lol.

I tried a bunch of halogens in my Ram 1500 and then ordered led’s of Amazon and they're so bright it looks like my headlight units are brand new and like the F250 can see MUCH farther ahead.

I guess led headlight technology is getting better eh!

 

I put these in my 2006 -- be sure to clock the bulb to get the pattern right for your housings
I used new housings from Ford
Def use the garage door or better yet, the side of a building to check the light pattern
I can see the cut lines when on dim and the light scatter is much better with the Ford housings

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I'm still old school; I really don't like LED bulbs, but I'm not OE.

Back in the 2001-2003 timeframe, many of us set up a layover power source for the headlights: a larger wire power and ground that fed the headlamps through relays instead of the little OE wires. I've also wired it so that both filaments stay on when in high beam mode. This is easy to do with a diode jumper between the relays.

Over the years, I've tried many bulbs, but I most often use the Hella bulbs, which, like Sylvania, come in different outputs: standard, 50%, 100%, and 150% to OE. When my timeframe requires me to do a lot of freeways or Pine Barren, low-traffic woods driving, I've gone up to Hella 100/80w +150%. With those, the diode comes out. Early on, I switched to ceramic sockets because, with that much heat, the OE sockets would melt—those only last about a year. But I prefer the old-school coloration, maybe because I have early-stage cataracts.

I must have the only Superduty that has never yellowed or fogged its OE headlamps—lots of sand pitting, but no UV degradation.

 

On my 04 F150 I did the Bambi mod where low and high both on when high is activated, but didn't know that was possible with our trucks and not sure if that's doable with the type of led's I'm using. I put new headlamp units and led's in the F150 and hi/low could run at the same time, but the led's in my Ram and F250 will only do low or high or at least when pulling back the column blinker/shifter whatever will not activate both.......hard to explain lol.

Anywho I did 2 trips through the B.C. mountains in winter with that F150 with new light setup and I could see farther than I can see in F250 and that's saying something! In Bambi mode the mountains kms in front of me would literally be lit up like burning phosphorus and that was 2-4 kms away easy!

To each their own 100%, but a quality set of led's will blow away any halogen bulbs on the market imho!

I'm not sure what's in the F250, but here's what I put in my Ram:

Amazon.ca

 

Don't care; I don't want LEDs. And if I could get away with it, I'd nuke every vehicle coming towards me with them.

Two of our vehicles have HIDs, and we like them.

 

Don't care lol. Yeah I wasn't trying to convert you TTT. I'd much prefer if everyone used those dim a$$ orange halogen, but they don't so is what it is.

 

The Gov really made night driving a ***** with all of the new DOT approved headlights and then the auto mfgs decided if one pair of headlights is good lets add multiples

I literally wear my sunglasses at night on our two lane roads around here

 

my neighbors come up our rural road like they are in a rally race in BAJA with so much scattered led light

yet here I am with my low beam 2006 headlights getting around just fine

hell if I get a vehicle behind me with New tech headlights
I can turn mine off since those cast enough light for both of us to see

 

Yeah I'm waiting on a pair of yellow polarized nighttime glasses I'm going to try out.

 

I tried a pair of those they did not really help

I was driving an hour in the darkness
to a job split lane no center barrier 65 mph
pretty scary when oncoming traffic blinds you

I started to have to use my sun visor
I tried one of the fold down as seen on tv devices but it was a POS

my Daughters RAV 4 has LED brights that come on by themselves ( states it auto senses traffic but what
I have noticed now that I am aware of this technology
is it helps to blind a lot of other drivers
and should have never been implemented

 

Y'all need to learn the old truck driver's trick. When there are bright lights oncoming look at the white line close to the hood instead of down the road. You have to trust the other driver to stay on his side.

 

Yeah I was taught to focus on the line to the right hand side so somewhat similar, but equally useless when it's pouring rain at night and every vehicle oncoming is running high beams!

I'm pretty much done with night driving anyways aside from low traffic country jaunts in the 6.0 to relax, but If I can find a GOOD pair of night time driving glasses that will change.

 

>> Hell if I get a vehicle behind me with New tech headlights
I can turn mine off since those cast enough light for both of us to see

During Christmas Tree selling at the farm, my MDX alternator gave out as I left for the night to come home, a 40-mile drive. Once I got on the Garden State Parkway, I turned my headlights off to save the battery, keeping the 'parking lights' on. Pairing with other cars while staying on the right of three or four lanes, I had no issue seeing the road at all. Freaked out a lot of other people. The lights came on for the last 2 miles off the GSP; the battery was at 11.5v. The HVAC was off, too - I did a quick assessment of how much amp draw I would have off the battery's depth of discharge capacity. There's a lot of light out there with these newer vehicles.

I haven't read the latest version of FMVSS 108, but from what I remember, it's illegal to change the source of the headlight mode from what the vehicle was built with, although it was legal to change the housings with a change in the source if the continuing model platform had an upgrade; the housing had to be a direct replacement, such as our model year Lincoln and Edge came with both halogen and HID so that HID could be retrofitted into the halogen models. Putting an LED bulb into a halogen housing is illegal unless something has changed lately.

OK, maybe not nuke the driver going by due to the contamination, but I could go Easy Rider.

 

you can debate "legality" all you want... when it comes to night driving, I'm not bringing a knife to a gun fight.

I run upgraded halogens in the factory slot, they are outdated, under powered, and not efficient.

I also run the @Diode Dynamics SS3 pro, and pray for people like @wpg_f250 to turn the corner so I can flip a switch and return the favor.

Stay salty gentlemen.

 

Always entertaining to see your comments that are directed at me.

 

 

Gah dayum man!

 

that vide reminds me... check out this flashlight they make with the SS3 pod... its fun times.

 

that vide reminds me... check out this flashlight they make with the SS3 pod... its fun times.

Saw your (?) Post about those fogs and ordered some to replace my tired and broken oem. By the look of that video, i wont be disappointed.