OverboostingFx4

Here's the link

https://www.f150forum.com/f118/easy-...ht-mod-313120/

I installed some OPT7 LED's (amazon.com) and it's like have 2 small white dwarf suns for headlights. Very white beam and it lights up the road very well. You do need to adjust/lower the light beam or get flashed a lot. I felt like the world was not ready for these LEDs.

jcat

trucks are getting worse and worse. If you don't want to start modifying, I'd start by checking the aim of the headlights. My last two trucks have been **** poor from the factory.

Next step up if you're comfortable changing bulbs but not more than that would be upgrading the bulbs themselves to a silverstar or the like.

Next step from there is a plug and play HID kit like I did in mine, about the same cost as silverstars but a little more work, but with the reward of significantly better light output.

Next step up from there is getting your halogen headlamps retrofitted with HID projectors. Very spendy, but the light output is much much improved, even over the PNP HID kit.

Finally your last step is OEM or Raptor Retrofit customized LED headlights. Very expensive, but light output and customization ability is significant.

Zymic

I agree that the halogen headlights on these trucks are very poor. They are quite possibly the worst headlights on any vehicle I have owned.

I'm intrigued by the OPT7 kit, but concerned that it won't fit under the seal that keeps moisture out of the headlight housing. Were you still able to use the moisture seal with your OPT7 installation?

jcat

that and the fans....I wonder how they hold up.

Zymic

Same here. I noticed that the F150LEDs.com Cree kit also has fans. Sounds like maybe they're mandatory for these high output LEDs.

jcat

They are. While LEDs generally require less current at an equal voltage to run, they generate a metric **** ton of heat doing it. That's why so many of them are built with super serious heatsinks and/or fans.

finplayer13

Just installed these and they are much improved over the stock headlights.

Lariat725

I went with Raptor Retrofits OEM headlights, no regrets. Light output is sooooo much better and it makes it feel like an actually higher end vehicle.

BlackBoost

I find the headlights are great, nice and bright. I don't understand why there's so many complaints? My last vehicle wasn't as good and that was with Philips NightGuides installed... I'll probably try swapping out the H11's for H9's and see what happens regardless.

FYI, don't buy bulbs with colored glass unless it's for yellow foglights. The blue tinted bulbs lose light output from the colored glass. Clear glass ensures you don't lose output.

Also, I really really hate those with HID's in reflectors that scatter light everywhere. Luckily, I've seen more and more police pulling people over for HID's lately.

Masejoer

Agreed - people just don't understand how to aim headlights correctly, are getting older and their eyes are getting worse, and/or since trucks have a higher seating position, the angle to the road makes it so you can see further down the road, but the same output from headlights can't throw much further than any other vehicle.

In a short vehicle, you can't see as far as a higher vehicle, and you pick up on more of the foreground lighting. It looks brighter due to flood directly in front of the vehicle, but if you get out of the vehicles and compare total light and distance, both a low-clearance car and a lifted truck will have their light stop at similar distances before it drastically tapers off, no matter how it is aimed (you have limited light to work with in the first place). The truck would likely throw farther overall, due to its larger reflectors than a car - larger reflectors and deeper bowls allow more light to be thrown to a greater distance. if you compare 3000 lumens in a short vehicle that throws light to 150 feet and 3000 lumens in a tall vehicle that throws light to 200 feet, more of the 3000 lumens is tossed down the road in the taller vehicle, making foreground lighting more limited. If there are other light sources nearby, your pupils will constrict and make the more-effective long-throw headlight appear darker - BUT, you don't really need headlights in well-lit areas in the first place.

Foreground lighting is the enemy, and doesn't let you see obstacles early enough when it's dark out. Look for total illuminated distance of the light first, then total luminous output and quality second. Don't be one of those people I see every evening with a bright spot directly in front of the vehicle, but poor output past 50-feet.