LED headlights- how critical?
Yesterday I drove home on a 200 miles stretch of pitch black highway in a horrible storm. I noticed whenever a vehicle with LED headlights came near me, they lit up the whole road about 10 fold better than my 2004 suburban. Do current halogen lights suck as bad as the old ones? I just got my build date for 6/20 and I am tempted to cancel my XL solely off this factor. I'll end up about $7k more to get into a XLT with led headlights and some other various features. I never considered it until yesterday when I realized how unbelievably bad my vision was compared to every LED headlight vehicle around me. Any thoughts on this?
Last edited by itgoofy; May 24, 2022 at 04:02 PM.
Yesterday I drove home on a 200 miles stretch of pitch black highway in a horrible storm. I noticed whenever a vehicle with LED headlights came near me, they lit up the whole road about 10 fold better than my 2004 suburban. Do current HID lights suck as bad as the old ones? I just got my build date for 6/20 and I am tempted to cancel my XL solely off this factor. I'll end up about $7k more to get into a XLT with led headlights and some other various features. I never considered it until yesterday when I realized how unbelievably bad my vision was compared to every LED headlight vehicle around me. Any thoughts on this?
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I will never drop below HID's again if i can help it. It doesn't help that the F150, even the newer ones, have what seem to be the worst possible example of halogen lights known to mankind.
I got bending LEDs on my 2022 Platinum, and they are the best headlights on any truck today.
Having upgraded my older vehicles from halogen to LEDs, I can re-assure you that you will never get proper optics for distance illumination. Philips H4 works OK, but that's the only proven bulb that is drop-in replacement, but you are not going to get a proper cutout line, etc.
Here is official measurement comparison between different headlights on 2022 F150: https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle...022#headlights - should help you to decide.
Good luck!
Having upgraded my older vehicles from halogen to LEDs, I can re-assure you that you will never get proper optics for distance illumination. Philips H4 works OK, but that's the only proven bulb that is drop-in replacement, but you are not going to get a proper cutout line, etc.
Here is official measurement comparison between different headlights on 2022 F150: https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle...022#headlights - should help you to decide.
Good luck!











