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I have a 2011 Tahoe that I'm looking to replace the low beams in. I seem to steadily burn out the halogen bulbs and now I'm looking into other options. I'm looking at either going LED or maybe HID. My Tahoe still has the OEM headlights. Does anyone have experience with either kind of bulbs? There are so many out there I don't know where to start. Thanks in advance!


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I have been looking at getting LED bulbs in mine too. I would be interested in hearing feed back on LEDs.
 
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No one has done this????


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I have leds. I have philips leds in my truck and wife's crv has optix leds. They are nice and bright. Led can produce a wierd light pattern that require messing with headligjt adjustment until it's right and not blinding oncoming traffic.

Biggest negative is if you live in a area thats gets snow like I do, you have to clean your headlights off every so often because leds don't produce heat like halogen bulbs so rain and slush freezes and dims headligjt output.
 

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LEDs in the stock reflector assemblies will scatter light all over, causing huge glare to oncoming drivers. Not good.

Go with brighter halogen bulbs or consider retrofitting your headlight assemblies to accept all necessary to support LED or HID technology.
 

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Just do silverstars, they are brighter without getting out of spec. of the stock reflectors even though they dont last long. I had the plasmas in but kept having issues; a true upgrade will cost a few hundred to retrofit either stock or aftermarket housings...

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LEDs in the stock reflector assemblies will scatter light all over, causing huge glare to oncoming drivers. Not good.

Go with brighter halogen bulbs or consider retrofitting your headlight assemblies to accept all necessary to support LED or HID technology.
Defintely retrofitting would be best and we do offer this service but we do want to point out not ALL leds produce the crazy flashlight beam pattern or no cutoff practically. We do offer our new 11G LED Kit that is truly the best option for replacing the halogens, the cutoff line is BETTER than halogen and much better than HID on reflector headlights. DO NOT go with leds on projector headlights.

PS we expect to have a full review comparing our new kit vs
"the all in one" led kit you would normally get for around $40-$60, the halogen and hid. We already finished the beam pattern test and waiting on the results for the real life lumen test. Our new bulb is putting down 3700 + lumens per bulb in real life, most others don't get past 1800. Pictures will show the facts soon.
 

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