Headlight recommendation?

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  1. Toomanybikes

    Toomanybikes Road Train Member

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    You can't paint a headlight bulb blue and get more light out of it so knock your self out if you like throwing money away.

    LED bulbs are not legal.

    The stock lights now days should be more then adequate to drive by. You need more then what is in trucks now days you should get off the road and leave the driving to those with better eyesight.
     
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  3. Txdriver77

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    if led lights aren't legal then why do all the new cars, trucks and semis come with them from the factory? those bulbs aren't painted blue, the paint would burn off.
     
  4. Toomanybikes

    Toomanybikes Road Train Member

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    LED replacement bulbs are not certified.

    The cars that come from the factory with them have been approved by the DOT.
     
  5. RedRover

    RedRover Road Train Member

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    They look great when they aren't blinding me. I have been in a couple of trucks that had them and t definitely helped to better illuminate what was immediately in front of me. No question. I don't know that I can speak for what they illuminated at a distance.
     
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  7. Brandt

    Brandt Road Train Member

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    If price is no option get LED. The full headlight assembly of you truck and run them. I got my first truck with LED from the factory they are lots better then the old lights. The two LED system one is regular and when flip on high beams the other LEDs come on. You would have to double check the older light system may not run LED light without changing the computer setting. They could flicker if because of the power they are getting
     
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  8. Txdriver77

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    my eyes are perfectly fine or I wouldn't be driving. stock headlights are crap especially in a prostar. my cascadia has the led headlights and they are great
     
  9. Sublime

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    Unless you are the guy meeting one on a hilly two-lane road and get blinded by them. DOT approved or not, they shouldn't be allowed.
     
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  10. ChaoSS

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    I drove a new cascadia for a little bit and the cutoff on the headlights was one of the few things that was well done on that truck. It wasn't blinding oncoming drivers.
     
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  11. Txdriver77

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    i see a lot of pos trucks, dump truckers, cattle haulers, mexican drivers with those blinding led light bars
     
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