ZeroTX

I'd love OEM LEDs, but the price is way ridiculous to retrofit them. On my last vehicle I put in HIDs and they worked great. I know a lot of people have issue with putting HID bulbs into halogen housings, but I frankly don't give a flip. The factory LEDs in some trucks (here's looking at you GMC) are blinding and nobody complains.

kbroderick

It's interesting that the IIHS tests suggest better results with the halogen low beams than the LED low beams, but better results with the LED high beams than the halogen high beams.

Personally, I think the stock headlights are pretty damn good. I'm 100% okay with the low beams—the cutoff is sharp, the pattern seems pretty good, and there's plenty of light given that it's inherently limited to near-field use (I'd love more light further away from the vehicle, but the physics of that get pretty challenging without blinding oncoming traffic).

I'm 100% okay with the stock high-beam pattern, but I didn't feel like the OEM bulbs were bright enough. I swapped in a $50 pair of LED "bulbs" from Amazon and have been quite happy since. I may still add some driving lights, but I think my high beams currently light up at least a quarter-mile of roadway if it's straight and flat (and will pick up retroreflective surfaces further away).

I have Bambi mode enabled and aftermarket LED fogs (due to a bumper swap), but I don't find running the fogs to be helpful at road speed—it's more light right next to the vehicle, if Bambi's that close and I haven't seen him, there's going to be some crunching noises.

I'm planning to add driving lights to the second set of bumper holes when my budget allows, but I'm not 100% sure they're necessary with the brighter-than-stock high beams.

For what it's worth, I've driven vehicles with crappy lights (2000 XTerra, '95 E350 box van, among others), decent lights (early 90s VWs with Euro-spec lamps swapped in), and really good (albeit illegal) lights (motorcycle with true driving lights as highs and pretty damn good LEDs as low beams). The F150 isn't quite as good at lighting things up as the motorcycle, but if I put the same lights at the F150 headlight height, I don't think oncoming traffic would be able to see much.

Chitwoodfrms

I did replace my stock halogen low beam with H11 hid. I live in a rural area laden with deer.. these are the same hid lamps i had in my GC. A phillips lamp.. uv glass to protect the reflector.. 25 watt..

Takeda

That's interesting, because the test results show the reach on the GM LED high beams is extremely low.

deserteagle69

No complaints about the lights on my XLT. Compared to the headlights on my Jeep Wrangler, they are wonderful!

freman dave

I have an F150 with a set of each. The one with halogen lights unfortunately is my daily driver and they are adequate but that is all the praise I will give them. The one with LED's I am more than happy with but it is mostly a weekend truck and doesn't get driven much.
I previously had a 2013 with HID's and I thought they were on par with the LED's. I do feel that Ford could do better on the base headlights, hopefully the 2018 models are an improvement.

dodgeman1

I looked at a couple of other vehicles I own and they all had poor headlight ratings for various reasons. Looks like a pretty hard test to get a good rating in.

Tn.Lariat

There pretty good for a halogen, wouldn't mind trying led bulbs. Not a fan of projectors.

PARIAH

I'm pleased with the light throw and spread of the stock halogen lights. Not so much how yellow the light is

RubyFX4

My 2017 halogens seem just fine. I had HID’s on my 2013 FX4 and they weren’t noticeably better to me! Although I’m used to driving UPS trucks with really crappy headlights!