Poor Lighting
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Poor Lighting
I have a 2020 XLT Does anybody think the headlights are poor. Low beam is horrible and high is not that much better. My wife nissan juke has twice as much lighting especially high beam. Just regular bulbs. Im sure Ford just put the basic bulbs. So does anybody agree or is it just me..
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Good Afternoon Neighbor....
On my 2015 F150 the lights were terrible too. There was a thread about changing the bulbs to other bulbs that did not fit. So you needed to grind off the plastic tab to make it fit into the Ford headlight slot and turn. The other part of it was when you removed your high beam bulbs you remove them carefully. Then remove the lower driving lights bulb and put the highbeam bulb in there. I did that part also and had no issues with blinding on comming cars. The brighter head light bulbs did blind on comming traffic so I removed them. But left in the lower bulbs. I then went to Phillips Brite White bulbs high beam and low beam and I liked them. My new truck I don't drive much at night but come fall I'lll be changing the bulbs.
On my 2015 F150 the lights were terrible too. There was a thread about changing the bulbs to other bulbs that did not fit. So you needed to grind off the plastic tab to make it fit into the Ford headlight slot and turn. The other part of it was when you removed your high beam bulbs you remove them carefully. Then remove the lower driving lights bulb and put the highbeam bulb in there. I did that part also and had no issues with blinding on comming cars. The brighter head light bulbs did blind on comming traffic so I removed them. But left in the lower bulbs. I then went to Phillips Brite White bulbs high beam and low beam and I liked them. My new truck I don't drive much at night but come fall I'lll be changing the bulbs.
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OP search for easy headlight mod. Works much better.
Actually, here is the link for you.
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/easy-...ht-mod-313120/
Actually, here is the link for you.
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/easy-...ht-mod-313120/
Last edited by artsr2002; Jul 28, 2020 at 03:31 AM.
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Check out www.headlightrevolution.com
Make sure your buying a quality bulb, not just any LED bulb. Headlight Revolution has many excellent YouTube videos to see in regards to what they have.
That's where I have bought my bulbs for my 2017. The first lighting 'mod' I did was to put LED lights in the fog light housings. Just changing out the fogs, they were substantially brighter than the low beams. Now I have aftermarket headlight housings that I have HID's in the low beams and LED's in the high beams. They are so much better than stock. But even the stock housings (with the right LED bulbs) can have great light output. Factory output is poor though.
Make sure your buying a quality bulb, not just any LED bulb. Headlight Revolution has many excellent YouTube videos to see in regards to what they have.
That's where I have bought my bulbs for my 2017. The first lighting 'mod' I did was to put LED lights in the fog light housings. Just changing out the fogs, they were substantially brighter than the low beams. Now I have aftermarket headlight housings that I have HID's in the low beams and LED's in the high beams. They are so much better than stock. But even the stock housings (with the right LED bulbs) can have great light output. Factory output is poor though.
