Volvo Headlight Opitions

I just changed to a aftermarket set FULL LED light housing (high/low white parking LED yellow turn signal LED with white LED angel eye glow ring around each headlight)$475 each side... WOW.. and no lcm reprogramming needed.

They do make a led conversation kit for the housing you have. About $240 for the high and low beams (all 4 lights) with the required resistors to fool the lcm made by Sylvania

 

How much is the resisor kit?
Knowing how little time it takes to click 4 options in the LCM setup menu, I’d just find a dealer who will do It for a 1/2 h charge. It’s literally a 5 minute job.

Besides the better light output, lower draw is also something I’d rather keep, instead of adding resistance back to make it what it was on halogens.

 

This is 1 of the led conversion kits
H11 LED Headlight Conversion Kit
This is what I just had installed yesterday. Mine were $475 each at the volvo dealer "M & K" in INDY

https://www.iowa80.com/pd/volvo-vnl-led-projector-headlights/287296/

 

Got a #### migraine just from reading this thread... We got along fine with the old one-piece square style glass lights for years and years and then all of a sudden everyone needs to be able to see into the next county over. If you can’t see with regular OEM halogen lights, you definitely don’t need to be driving at night.

 

Two options.

OMFG Eff this *&^% and ... WTF is this?

The lights that is on those trucks. Why we have them I don't know. You would think you can saw those lights off and then custom fabricate whatever you think works best on that bumper.

 

part of the problem is people think it is safe to have lighting to light up the road a mile and a half away.

the other problem which has to do with the builders of these trucks, cars and pickups is they put in flat panel screens which are too bright plus the other electronics in the trucks where they need more lighting to see outside the cab and hence they think they need lighting to light up the road a mile and a half away.

Dodge, or ram (what a joke) was singled out for their pickups and better sales because they have the biggest screen in the cab on the dash, where GM and Ford doesn't. I am waiting for the lawsuits to happen because of them, I hope they do come because it is stupid to have daylight in the cabin of a vehicle when it is pitch black out.

 

If I ever buy a vehicle of any kind, the one thing I will specifically make sure if I have to custom order to build, never to have a giant screen in there.

I use F.lux software on this computer to eliminate where possible blue light. I can only imagine the difficulty today's drivers have to go to sleep having been flooded by blue lighting everywhere all night or whatever. Even by day.

Ive leaned towards Ridgeline's assertions, however I will state that many areas out west it's good to know what is half a mile ahead. What's really awesome is occasionally when you are fixing to be stabbed by the beam of a railroad engine headlights the engineer will switch it off a minute until you get by.

I know I have a love and hate relationship with my crappy 96 tahoe, but when I get in it I am reminded that it does not hardly have anything like today's crap overloading new vehicles. Thank god.

 

Those pos volvo halogens should've been a NHTSA safety recall !!

they were so bad after a year or so of use the projector reflectors didn't work anymore and light was better with a D cell maglight.

The old style Volvo halogen headlights were a train wreck. Both styles projector and vnm style reflector were total dog s.

You must have never driven the POS Volvo halogen lights then experienced the factory LED. Nobody wants to go back to that crap of burnt out bulbs and total crap for visibility.