My $500 Honda Accord has always been plagued with a strange voltage problem and I'm bothered by the headlights randomly flickering from normal to dim and back again when I drive at night. I've been wanting to switch to LED bulbs for a few years because the prospect of not needing to change the bulbs is quite attractive to me.
I'm hoping these LED replacement bulbs will be less sensitive to the anomalous voltage fluctuations as well as being brighter for better night time visibility.
I had a great experience with a set of fog light bulbs for my Miata made by WOXMA, but found these at a great deal from walmart.com so I decided to give them a try.
Lasfit is actually one of the more popular LED brands on the Internet at the moment. While they are not one of the higher end products out there, the technology appears to use "Flip chips" which are supposed to be the latest and greatest. I hope to use these until a newer technology promises a better, brighter beam.
These bulbs are not DOT approved and if I lived in a state where they do annual safety inspections, these would probably fail the inspection with certain astute techs.
I've never changed the bulbs in this car so I struggled for a few hours to figure out a way of ensuring that the bulbs fit securely and that the plugs were oriented with the right polarity before I tightened everything down. The accord uses 3 screws to hold the bulb in place but since the LED bulbs have a slightly different fit, I added washers ensure that they don't pop off on a bumpy road on 2 of the 3 screws.
On paper, these bulbs are supposed to be nearly 4 times brighter than the 55w halogens they replaced (not sure if lumens can be measured this way, but 1000 lumens vs 3800 lumens is 3.8x brighter).
Taking some evening shots to get an idea of distance and cutoff, I feel like these are a big improvement that highlights the need for me to clean up the headlight lenses so they don't obstruct the beam of light.
There is more scattered light with the brighter LEDs, but the hot spot is still at approximately the same position. The scattered light throws up fairly high and I have a concern that they may seem like high beams to oncoming drivers.
After more than a week of driving I haven't been flashed once and the weird flicker is gone. These lights are a keeper
I'm hoping these LED replacement bulbs will be less sensitive to the anomalous voltage fluctuations as well as being brighter for better night time visibility.
I had a great experience with a set of fog light bulbs for my Miata made by WOXMA, but found these at a great deal from walmart.com so I decided to give them a try.
These bulbs are not DOT approved and if I lived in a state where they do annual safety inspections, these would probably fail the inspection with certain astute techs.
I've never changed the bulbs in this car so I struggled for a few hours to figure out a way of ensuring that the bulbs fit securely and that the plugs were oriented with the right polarity before I tightened everything down. The accord uses 3 screws to hold the bulb in place but since the LED bulbs have a slightly different fit, I added washers ensure that they don't pop off on a bumpy road on 2 of the 3 screws.
On paper, these bulbs are supposed to be nearly 4 times brighter than the 55w halogens they replaced (not sure if lumens can be measured this way, but 1000 lumens vs 3800 lumens is 3.8x brighter).
Taking some evening shots to get an idea of distance and cutoff, I feel like these are a big improvement that highlights the need for me to clean up the headlight lenses so they don't obstruct the beam of light.
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| Halogen low beam |
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| LED low beam |
There is more scattered light with the brighter LEDs, but the hot spot is still at approximately the same position. The scattered light throws up fairly high and I have a concern that they may seem like high beams to oncoming drivers.
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