Headlights!

[Hey you]

I have tried different brands of LED bulbs on my 2015 Tahoe LT. But the projector type housing is not allowing the LED to illuminate
the road, to my liking. Now i am back to halogens, and thinking of trying an after marked housing that will allow the LED to work.
I think something without the projectors would work much better.
Any body who has tried this, please let me know.

 

[wjburken]

I have tried different brands of LED bulbs on my 2015 Tahoe LT. But the projector type housing is not allowing the LED to illuminate
the road, to my liking. Now i am back to halogens, and thinking of trying an after marked housing that will allow the LED to work.
I think something without the projectors would work much better.
Any body who has tried this, please let me know.

What brand of LED bulb did you try?

 

[Hey you]

The first set were not marked, came with the car.
Then I tried a set from US Stock on ebay. Not sure if that is the brand, or just a distributor.
The bulbs do look bright, but they do not illuminate the road very well.
High Beam does not have the projector, and they work OK there.

 

[Joseph Garcia]

1. Did you purchase LEDs that were adjustable? By adjustable, did the LEDs have the capability to be rotated within the LED assembly itself?
2. If the LEDs were adjustable, did you correctly adjust them? Incorrectly adjusted LEDs are useless for a proper lighting pattern.

 

[Doubeleive]

I have tried different brands of LED bulbs on my 2015 Tahoe LT. But the projector type housing is not allowing the LED to illuminate
the road, to my liking. Now i am back to halogens, and thinking of trying an after marked housing that will allow the LED to work.
I think something without the projectors would work much better.
Any body who has tried this, please let me know.

HID's work better in projector housings. Sometimes if LED's are used the adjustable ones can work but you will still have a dead spot
I converted the wife's projectors to HID they work pretty decent.
if you go HID I would recommend using quality ballast's and a relay, they tend to require more power than the stock wiring harness provides.

 

[Hey you]

I did make sure the LEDs were installed as shown on the diagram.
I may have to consider the HIDs, but was hoping there was a headlight assy out there without the projectors.
Thanks for the input!

 

[ReaperHWK]

How hard is it to retrofit the LTZ headlights in there? They have HIDs.

If it isn’t that hard I’d look into grabbing a used set somewhere.

 

[Doubeleive]

How hard is it to retrofit the LTZ headlights in there? They have HIDs.

If it isn’t that hard I’d look into grabbing a used set somewhere.

the problem with the factory HID's is they are only 25w, which still sucks
it cost me about $100 to upgrade to 50w on the wifes 16, the silverado was a little more because the bulb model is a odd D5S, a pair of 35w aftermarket can be found for around $35 and they run at 50w no problem, mine have been in the truck over 5 years. the oem 25w model sold at (some) autoparts stores are $136 each lol
easy to do, you just need a set of ballast, set of bulbs, wiring harness, relay.
the problem people have with upgrading to HID's is using cheap garbage ballast, the bulbs are generally ok even if cheap.
back 20 years ago when aftermarket HID's started hitting the market the ballast's were generally made well, then as time went along and they starting becoming more popular they started making them cheaper and cheaper, popular brands were "copied" (knockoffs) and made with inferior parts and it just snowballed from there. but there are still some quality ballast's made.
I recommend these, for the price & quality. standard 9006 output, then you just convert 9006 to your desired bulb model with a harness, relay and connect directly to the battery
the original bulb harness is then just a trigger and there is no load put on the factory harness

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