Headlights!

[L8T BURB]

I used Sealight brand LEDs on my 2015 Suburban LT for lows, highs, and fog lights. I was more than happy with the performance of them. They can be found on Amazon for what I feel like is a very reasonable price. They're true plug and play. No wire splicing of any kind, and the dust covers fit right back onto the headlight housing as if it was stock. Never any issue with them overheating or cutting out at all. The light output of them compared to the stock halogen bulbs was really no comparison, and I never got any oncoming traffic flashing their highs at me.

 

[mountie]

I used Sealight brand LEDs on my 2015 Suburban LT for lows, highs, and fog lights. I was more than happy with the performance of them. They can be found on Amazon for what I feel like is a very reasonable price. They're true plug and play. No wire splicing of any kind, and the dust covers fit right back onto the headlight housing as if it was stock. Never any issue with them overheating or cutting out at all. The light output of them compared to the stock halogen bulbs was really no comparison, and I never got any oncoming traffic flashing their highs at me.

Seelight, in your stock housing??

 

[L8T BURB]

Seelight, in your stock housing??

Yes, the sealight bulbs are direct plug and play. They fit right into the stock housing. Very nice white light that doesn't look like tacky aftermarket.

 

[Hey you]

These are the new headlights. Much better illumination at night, and no upset drivers approaching so far!

 

[BigBoyZ71]

These are the new headlights. Much better illumination at night, and no upset drivers approaching so far!

Great looking headlights. My only concern with this style - there's no way to throw in a new bulb once they burn out (from my understanding)

 

[Loki223]

Great looking headlights. My only concern with this style - there's no way to throw in a new bulb once they burn out (from my understanding)

Generally speaking, no. But the entire point or getting higher quality LED housings is that the LEDs should outlast the life of the vehicle, assuming they have proper cooling and airflow. It's generally heat that can destroy an LED, they are low quality LED chip sets. The ANZO housing look interesting but i would be curious to see how they compare in the real world to the higher quality LED Projector set ups being that they are a reflector LED housing. Similar to how most mid to low trim level vehicles with "LED" headlights have LED reflectors, rather then LED projectors like the higher trims tend to have. Although the next step is laser headlights but i haven't seen any aftermarkets producing those just yet.

Personally, i'm going with the Morimoto headlights here at some point. Just waiting on a couple of other things to go through first and then i'll get the moris in the burb. I have them on my truck and LOVE them. Technically a true HID retrofit with a D2S set up would be better, but at the effort level, i can't complain.

Another side note, since it was discussed a little bit. There are halogen projectors, and HID projectors. and they are not made the same. All housing types are made with a specific light source in mind. They are designed to collect the light and refocus it as desired. While yes, you can put HIDs in a halogen projector, you won't get the same quality of beam as you would with a true HID projector. And when choosing LED swap bulbs there are so many that just throw an LED chipset on a piece of plastic, the overclock it, and call it a work of art and money. a quality drop in LED requires that the light source emit light similar to the original lighting element so that the reflectors in the housing/projector can properly control the light and output a quality beam pattern that doesn't blind oncoming traffic and others on the road. The vast majority of LED drop in bulbs do not properly align the light source, which means the reflectors do not properly control the light leading to what appears to be a bright light, but is widely uncontrolled and considered a bad beam pattern. Projectors can be very forgiving with this, but are still susceptible to bad beam patterns with inferior bulb designs. Ideally if you want o upgrade your lighting, you should keep to the bulb that the housing was designed for. The adjustable bulbs are just the manufacturers saying "we don't know what we're doing, so here is an adjustment for you to figure it out and think we thought it through" You can often get a significantly better quality beam and output by using the proper type of bulb. Higher output halogens achieve this by burning hotter, which in turn shortens their life. If you want to truly upgrade your light output, you need to either buy quality projectors and do a retrofit, or buy new housings that are properly designed with the light source you intend on using. Cheap Chinesium housings are often built with low quality halogen projectors and are not recommended for HID bulbs, as the HIDs can melt the cheaper parts used in them. At the end of the day, you get what you pay for.

 

[mountie]

Yup..... not all LED's are made for a standard-designed housing's reflector pattern.