Fasttimez

Hey guys, just thought I'd post an easy bulb upgrade mod for our F150. Our truck uses a H11 bulb for low beam, 9005 for high beam & a 9140 for fogs. Now with a little modifying to the new high & low beam bulbs, you'll have double the light output from OEM replacement bulbs. It goes like this, replace your H11 with a H9 bulb, replace your 9005 with a 9011 & take your 9005 bulbs & put them as your fog light bulbs. Here's why:
Stock H11 = 1,350 Lumens
Replacement H9 = 2,100 Lumens
Stock 9005 = 1,700 Lumens
Replacement 9011 = 2,350 Lumens
Stock 9140 = 600 Lumens
Replace with your 9005 = 1,700 Lumens
These are all basic OEM replacement bulbs by Philips. You can pick them up off of Amazon for about $50-$60. I'm not going into detail, just Google H11 to H9 Mod & 9005 to 9011 Mod. Some might say you could possibly melt your fog light housing using the 9005 bulb, I'll be the test subject since no one has tried this in the new fog light housings yet. You could always upgrade from a 9140 to a 9145 if you wanted for the fogs.
I just wanna say the difference in light output is like day & night literally, & all from stock replacement bulbs. You're going from 3,050 total lumen output on high beam to 4,450.....that's a massive leap up in light output. Low beam output goes from 1,950 to 3,800.....that's more than your old high beam output. You will literally never need high beams again. I've been running mine for about 2 weeks now with no problem. I think the fog light housings can take the 9005 bulbs. The older F150's with the rectangle fog lights could take the 9005 bulbs, when they switched to round fogs they would melt or deform the housing when using 9005 bulbs. Now the housing is rectangular again but so far so good.

Jabooh1

Interesting.

FO RD

Easy to do when you don't have to see them coming at you at night. Low beams have lower output for a reason and yes I understand aiming and all that is different between high and low but bright is still bright. Can't see at night stay home.

I make my living driving and nothing worse than someone who adjusts lights or makes mods that housings were not designed for with different style or higher output bulbs. ****. Why don't we all just drive around with high beams on all the time

02fx4dude

Just keep an extra H9 bulb handy as H9 hi beams have a relatively shorter rated lifespan. The tradeoff for higher lumens.

This is an easy mod, one of the first I did, right after air dam removal.

Fasttimez

You obviously don't understand this mod. The 2015 F150 Headlight housing has bulb caps in front of the low beam bulb, that means the low beam pattern is the exact same, only it gives you a longer more intense beam pattern. The oncoming traffic is NOT affected by this bulb mod AT ALL. You have obviously mistaken this mod (which uses factory OEM bulbs, not those cheap HID kits or blue crappy bulbs) for something that's unsafe to drive around in. This mod does nothing to the housing at all, it keeps it 100% stock. All you're doing is snipping a couple locking tabs on the bulbs themselves so they'll lock into the factory housing....

Fasttimez

I just used Philips OEM replacement bulbs, they're rated for 400 hrs of use.

11screw50

From an electrical standpoint, the H9's are 65W and H11's are 55W correct?

At 12V, that is just under 1A difference (each). No issues with wire size or fuses?

iRub1Out

At a 1A difference, no, the stock wiring shouldnt have any problem handling that small of an increase in load.

FO RD

I understand but brighter is brighter. You swap a 100w for a 60w in your house you don't notice a difference? Same thing here. You even said it yourself. Longer beam more intense. Isn't that changing the pattern? Your not changing aim though. It's my opinion and you'll justify yours but there's a reason the intensity from factory is what it is

Fasttimez

There's a huge difference between a 100w vs 60w household bulb. You're swapping a 55w bulb for a 65w bulb.....The low beam pattern is still below the oncoming drivers line of sight, no re-aiming required. The high beam bulbs are both 65w bulbs, you're just swapping out for a more efficient bulb. Fogs don't even matter as they are way below oncoming driver's line of sight. I understand your concern, but I believe you're basing your thought process on those idiots that swap HID kits into factory housings & blind the crap out of people, or people that put those annoying to look at blue bulbs in their vehicles. I assure you that this is a completely safe mod for other drivers.