LED head lights

[BiggaJ]

I'm sure this has been asked before however, is there an upgrade to the V8V headlights (main and dipped beem) utilising LED lights.... Is there a straight swap and what have you used or would recommend.

[steveatesh]

ironic this, personally I'd change mine to a standard Halogen bulb and sidelight at the drop of a hat. I've had three of the LED units changed on my car since new and at £1500 a time compared to maybe £10 a time for a bulb, its a no brainer.

Hope you find what you're looking for though!

[BiggaJ]

Thanks for the reply. My issue is with how bad the stock lights seem to be when lighting the road ahead. By comparison newer cars with LED lights seem to be way better and I watch a program recently where a garage was looking at the difference in LED v conventional lights on a Ferrari 308 GTS, the LED bulbs offered way more light than stock halogens.

[milu]

I have the standard Xenon dip but put led bulbs for full beam.

[BiggaJ]

milu said:

I have the standard Xenon dip but put led bulbs for full beam.

Do you have a link to what you bought please?

[milu]

I don’t have the link but Nighteye led bulbs on eBay. Think they’re h11 but it’s in your owners manual. Only about £12

[BiggaJ]

Thanks, will check

[xstaticx]

Bear in mind there isn't a huge amount of space in there, especially for the Main Beam. I elected to use Fanless and shallow units from Amazon for £30.00, which seem to be much brighter\whiter than the halogens. I have the stock HID dipped but I think there is more space around this for a replacement solution. (Bulbs I bought; Amazon - NOVSIGHT H11(H8/H9) LED Headlight Bulb White 6000K, 2Pcs 10000LM)

[BiggaJ]

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

[BiggaJ]

xstaticx said:

Bear in mind there isn't a huge amount of space in there, especially for the Main Beam. I elected to use Fanless and shallow units from Amazon for £30.00, which seem to be much brighter\whiter than the halogens. I have the stock HID dipped but I think there is more space around this for a replacement solution. (Bulbs I bought; Amazon - NOVSIGHT H11(H8/H9) LED Headlight Bulb White 6000K, 2Pcs 10000LM)

Thanks, would you say they were a huge improvement over the stock bulbs?

[bignoise]

Just a word of caution that LED bulb upgrades have yet to be certified,

LED and HID bulbs are illegal in headlights not designed for them

At MOT

"Existing halogen headlamp units should not be converted to be used with high intensity discharge (HID) or light emitting diode (LED) bulbs. If such a conversion has been done, you must fail the headlamp."

If stopped then there is potential for vehicle to be prohibited if light source (bulb) and lamp are not compatible or cleaning device if mandatory is inoperative

[milu]

Re: above
I’ve never had issues with led bulbs at mot time. Just don’t go mad
Also it’s not much of an issue for full beam

[bignoise]

The addition to include LED's came in this month

[Penelope Stopit]

steveatesh said:

ironic this, personally I'd change mine to a standard Halogen bulb and sidelight at the drop of a hat. I've had three of the LED units changed on my car since new and at £1500 a time compared to maybe £10 a time for a bulb, its a no brainer.

Hope you find what you're looking for though!

Unbelievable price yet believe you

How do they get away with it?