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From: Jasper In
Agree with you...my 14 FX4 HID are amazing and everyone says that who rides with me. My 14 FX4 with heat/cool leather, sony, tow, trailer brake, dual zone, tailgate step, HIDs, etc etc had a sticker of 49,025. The similarly equipped truck now is 54,000ish. Ugh. Guess I'm just being cheap. Lariat only has $2500 in total incentives right now. Although I don't know if the lariat incentives go much more than that ever. Base 54,530. A plan price 48,646. Less 2,500 brings to 46,146. Just seems too high...again it's probably just me.
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That link didn't work for me for some reason. Which conversation are you referring to? Also maybe a group buy from 4x4trucksLED might be in order. Certainly know this guy offers nice product. I'm just saying if some posters here have installed the front lighting system he offers and would let people like me know how they worked out, I'd be interested in high lows and fogs... I mean seriously...I'm going to nail a deer or worse if I don't do something. All my high beams do is make the highway signs blinding.
Having traded my '13 FX4 with HID lights to a '15 Lariat with LED lights me and my wife both feel the HID lights were better then the LEDs which are still very good lights.
Now my brother in law bought an F150 with the Halogen lights and did this conversion as suggested on these forums and I have to admit it was a pretty substantial upgrade to factory halogens.
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/easy-...ht-mod-313120/
Now my brother in law bought an F150 with the Halogen lights and did this conversion as suggested on these forums and I have to admit it was a pretty substantial upgrade to factory halogens.
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/easy-...ht-mod-313120/
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From: Jasper In
That link didn't work for me for some reason. Which conversation are you referring to? Also maybe a group buy from 4x4trucksLED might be in order. Certainly know this guy offers nice product. I'm just saying if some posters here have installed the front lighting system he offers and would let people like me know how they worked out, I'd be interested in high lows and fogs... I mean seriously...I'm going to nail a deer or worse if I don't do something. All my high beams do is make the highway signs blinding.
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.
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Yes thank you I remember that one. I dunno I was worried about over heating and overloading issues or the unknown anything for that matter... it's brand new after all. Lol, what I do know is that I don't have $1700-2500 to resolve my headlight situation.
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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.
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.
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Also maybe a group buy from 4x4trucksLED might be in order. Certainly know this guy offers nice product. I'm just saying if some posters here have installed the front lighting system he offers and would let people like me know how they worked out, I'd be interested in high lows and fogs... I mean seriously...I'm going to nail a deer or worse if I don't do something. All my high beams do is make the highway signs blinding.
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I did 4x4TruckLEDS.com upgrade low and high beam. $280.00 total and a couple hours worth of labor. Love it. Worked great. Much much better than the halogens that came with the truck. He even has an install video that he will share with you if you pm him.
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That link didn't work for me for some reason. Which conversation are you referring to? Also maybe a group buy from 4x4trucksLED might be in order. Certainly know this guy offers nice product. I'm just saying if some posters here have installed the front lighting system he offers and would let people like me know how they worked out, I'd be interested in high lows and fogs... I mean seriously...I'm going to nail a deer or worse if I don't do something. All my high beams do is make the highway signs blinding.
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I did 4x4TruckLEDS.com upgrade low and high beam. $280.00 total and a couple hours worth of labor. Love it. Worked great. Much much better than the halogens that came with the truck. He even has an install video that he will share with you if you pm him.
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From: Mesquite NV