2015 F-150 LED Headlight Solution
02-23-2016, 07:07 PM
#11
They have not shown up yet, showing up Thursday I think. but the 90mm SHOULD do the trick. It's a 90mm boot and I just need a little more room, so it'll work great. I've added them to the kit i'm selling on my site as a solution for the 2015+ F-150s.
I took photos tonight so i'll post them soon
I took photos tonight so i'll post them soon
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Sasquatch77 (02-23-2016)
02-23-2016, 08:18 PM
#14
Yeah I'm waiting on them to come in the mail. Those will be an LED kit as well (with ballasts) rather than JUST small LED bulbs. They should be here within a week or two, waiting on the Fogs from the manufacturer to come in.
02-24-2016, 11:46 PM
#17
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Are there any that dont need a fan?
02-24-2016, 11:50 PM
#18
Yeah I've seen ones with these little heatsink pieces that flop on the back. I've seen videos where they just shove them inside.
However I'd compare those to the "cheap bulb kits" - which I tried out in my early days (a month or two ago on another truck).
Lights were like $80 and had a fan on the top. The other ones had those heatsink things coming off.
Now what's FUNNY is LED bulbs run COOL from what my manufacturer tells me. So I don't know what the point of the heatinks was... the fans on the LED kits are supposed to blow warm air AT the bulbs to heat them up a bit... not sure honestly. I've had no issues so far in an enclosed environment.
I saw these on amazon, would not recommend them but these are what you are talking about I believe, the "cheap" bulb kits:
POOR reviews... heres another style:
Not sure why they want $140 for them to be honest. They all seem to have ballasts actually so I was wrong on the "non ballasts"
but the lumens are 2500... compare that the 6,000 you see in my truck photos
Hope that helps ya... I've spent a lot of time, tried a bunch of products but I def. have not tried them ALL.
However I'd compare those to the "cheap bulb kits" - which I tried out in my early days (a month or two ago on another truck).
Lights were like $80 and had a fan on the top. The other ones had those heatsink things coming off.
Now what's FUNNY is LED bulbs run COOL from what my manufacturer tells me. So I don't know what the point of the heatinks was... the fans on the LED kits are supposed to blow warm air AT the bulbs to heat them up a bit... not sure honestly. I've had no issues so far in an enclosed environment.
I saw these on amazon, would not recommend them but these are what you are talking about I believe, the "cheap" bulb kits:
POOR reviews... heres another style:
Not sure why they want $140 for them to be honest. They all seem to have ballasts actually so I was wrong on the "non ballasts"
but the lumens are 2500... compare that the 6,000 you see in my truck photos
Hope that helps ya... I've spent a lot of time, tried a bunch of products but I def. have not tried them ALL.
02-25-2016, 01:02 AM
#19
I'm impressed that you didn't have flickering and one-headlight-going-out issues with your aftermarket LEDs on your 2015. I originally put a low and high beam set that I got from F150LED's in my 2015 XLT and I had both of these issues. Installing load resistors did not help. I found out later that the one-headlight-going-out problem could be resolved by installing a relay harness but the flickering issue also needed a capacitor harness installed along with the relay harness. I had put the F150LEDs fan driven LED fog lights in at the same time with the headlights and never had an issue with the fogs not working or flickering-only with the headlights. I finally decided to just purchase a set of OEM Ford LED headlights from The Retrofit Source/Raptor Retrofits because it was a PIA to take the headlights in and out trying to eliminate the problems.
I'm not sure where you live but here in PA where it gets pretty cold and with the voltage being higher in colder weather than it is in warm weather it just made the low-drawing LEDs shut down, thus the one-headlight-going-out problem. Once the under-hood temperature warmed up both headlights would stay on for a noticeably longer time before one would finally cut out. If I had put these LEDs in when the weather was warm I probably wouldn't have had any problems and I'd be thinking everything was working great until the cold weather rolled around.
My wife has a 2016 Escape which uses the same H11 and 9005 headlight bulbs. I put the LEDs I took out of my F150 in her Escape and they work PERFECTLY-no flickering or one-headlight-going-out, and I didn't need to install the relay or capacitor harnesses. This leads me to believe that the new F150s have a much more voltage-sensitive lighting control.
I had a 2011 F150 XLT that I traded on the 2015 and the same F150LEDs LED headlamp kit I put in it worked fine right out of the box in all temperatures. I know from reading other posts that I wasn't the only 2015 owner to have these problems with the aftermarket LED kits so it's got to be something with the vehicle's control module.
LOL, if anyone with a 2015 who has been trying to put LED headlights in and is having problems with flickering and/or one-headlight-going-out, and you want to solve it, PM me and I'll give you a good deal on the brand new relay and capacitor harnesses that I never installed!
I'm not sure where you live but here in PA where it gets pretty cold and with the voltage being higher in colder weather than it is in warm weather it just made the low-drawing LEDs shut down, thus the one-headlight-going-out problem. Once the under-hood temperature warmed up both headlights would stay on for a noticeably longer time before one would finally cut out. If I had put these LEDs in when the weather was warm I probably wouldn't have had any problems and I'd be thinking everything was working great until the cold weather rolled around.
My wife has a 2016 Escape which uses the same H11 and 9005 headlight bulbs. I put the LEDs I took out of my F150 in her Escape and they work PERFECTLY-no flickering or one-headlight-going-out, and I didn't need to install the relay or capacitor harnesses. This leads me to believe that the new F150s have a much more voltage-sensitive lighting control.
I had a 2011 F150 XLT that I traded on the 2015 and the same F150LEDs LED headlamp kit I put in it worked fine right out of the box in all temperatures. I know from reading other posts that I wasn't the only 2015 owner to have these problems with the aftermarket LED kits so it's got to be something with the vehicle's control module.
LOL, if anyone with a 2015 who has been trying to put LED headlights in and is having problems with flickering and/or one-headlight-going-out, and you want to solve it, PM me and I'll give you a good deal on the brand new relay and capacitor harnesses that I never installed!
02-25-2016, 01:14 AM
#20
Quality... I had the same issues with the F150leds kit... my passenger side would flicker sometimes. They did send me the load resistor but at that point I had water in the housing, and sent it all back. NICE guy though, stands by his customers so he does get 2 thumbs up from me. Customer Service is always why I shop at places. I tried helping him design a new setup but in the end I started my own thing. He does have a new kit coming out he indicated to me. (sure hope its not the same one I'm selling lol, although friendly competition is always welcome)
I didn't have issues either,like you mentioned. They worked fine. But I had very limited light output. They did match the headlights perfect but I did miss my the light output from my fogs. The reason the fogs did not flicker I believe is they MAY have had a built in CANbus... I could be wrong. In my research overseas I found the style light he sells to have built in CANbus... but that makes sense as that's just a BULB.
I'm in NY so we get the same weather. I've had my lights in about 2 weeks now honestly. And we had some COLD weather the other week, what was it about 10 degrees or so. I didn't have any issues.
I'd believe the newer F150's have a lot more going on. Look at the way they designed it, they have that "central" master plug, and then all the wiring for the lights is internal, inside the housing.
LOL at the harness
That might work for some vehicles, some vehicles it may not. Whats odd is the manufacturer (i'm talking the guys overseas in china who make all this stuff) list the harnesses on all the previous models they've put out. The kit i'm using, they don't mention any requirement for the harness. They DO offer them, but they don't list it side by side.
As I get more of these kits installed in various vehicles, I'll let you know how I make out.
Tonight I had a guy install a kit on his Jeep Grand Cherokee. Night and day difference he said. I don't believe he had any flickering. I guess the manufacturer was spot on when they told me "these are the highest quality kits" - Naturally at first I didn't believe their marketing hype, but after trying the system out having NO ISSUES I gotta say, I am impressed.
Hell... it even works with our DRL system, no flickering (although if you watch my surveillance cameras, the leds appear to flicker which led me to believe i had faulty eqipment when i first played back footage, then i realized, that's just the nature of LEDs + IP surveillance cameras + refresh rates)
Glad i wasnt the only one who had issues. Sucks we had issues, I wish the guy best of luck in getting his newer kits out... but glad we had the same issues because it wasn't just My truck.
I didn't have issues either,like you mentioned. They worked fine. But I had very limited light output. They did match the headlights perfect but I did miss my the light output from my fogs. The reason the fogs did not flicker I believe is they MAY have had a built in CANbus... I could be wrong. In my research overseas I found the style light he sells to have built in CANbus... but that makes sense as that's just a BULB.
I'm in NY so we get the same weather. I've had my lights in about 2 weeks now honestly. And we had some COLD weather the other week, what was it about 10 degrees or so. I didn't have any issues.
I'd believe the newer F150's have a lot more going on. Look at the way they designed it, they have that "central" master plug, and then all the wiring for the lights is internal, inside the housing.
LOL at the harness
That might work for some vehicles, some vehicles it may not. Whats odd is the manufacturer (i'm talking the guys overseas in china who make all this stuff) list the harnesses on all the previous models they've put out. The kit i'm using, they don't mention any requirement for the harness. They DO offer them, but they don't list it side by side.As I get more of these kits installed in various vehicles, I'll let you know how I make out.
Tonight I had a guy install a kit on his Jeep Grand Cherokee. Night and day difference he said. I don't believe he had any flickering. I guess the manufacturer was spot on when they told me "these are the highest quality kits" - Naturally at first I didn't believe their marketing hype, but after trying the system out having NO ISSUES I gotta say, I am impressed.
Hell... it even works with our DRL system, no flickering (although if you watch my surveillance cameras, the leds appear to flicker which led me to believe i had faulty eqipment when i first played back footage, then i realized, that's just the nature of LEDs + IP surveillance cameras + refresh rates)
Glad i wasnt the only one who had issues. Sucks we had issues, I wish the guy best of luck in getting his newer kits out... but glad we had the same issues because it wasn't just My truck.