Actually, I care. I'm sure I'm not alone. So you don't care if you're making it more difficult for an oncoming driver who will be passing within a couple feet of your truck at a combined speed of 120 mph or more. Okay, good to know. Glad I don't drive where you do. Lots of people don't flash their lights at other drivers. Doesn't mean you're not causing them problems. Doesn't matter how often you get flashed. The fact that anyone is flashing their lights at you means it's an issue for them. I don't ever get flashed unless I forget to dim my headlights.

 

Well he's talking about putting LED or HID bulbs into projectors so the only way he is going to blind oncoming drivers is if he has his lights adjusted up way too high. The cut off shields in the projectors will limit the amount of light emited above the cut off line. HID and LED bulbs would actually be okay in the projectors. The only issue is the projector is probably a low quality halogen projector that uses H7 bulbs. These projectors are cheap and sometimes they have terrible output with LED bulbs. Also the optics of the projector may not be great. The SPEC-D lights I used at one point had cheap halogen projectors and the high beam projectors were terrible. The focal point of the of bulb inside was not good. It was akin to using a dollar store "1 million lumens” flashlight. You know the ones. The ones that have an adjustable zoom function to change the beam from flood to spot and they are always terrible because of the low quality Chinesium cheap **** they used to make them. Lol.

 

You're right about it not being as bad in a projector housing. But as you pointed out, there can still be problems doing that as well. Cheap LED bulbs proliferate ebay and Amazon. All I was saying is that it's not technically legal to do that. I've been on the receiving end of people putting cheap LED bulbs in projector housings enough times to know it's a problem. Lots of glare with those. There are companies that make LED bulbs they claim are designed to replace halogen bulbs in projector housings, but they tend to be on the more expensive side. And are still not technically legal.

 

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hmmmm...so you think sticking the wrong style of bulb in a halogen housing is ok except the projector is low quality, can (and do) have bad output, bad (wrong) optics and your own experience was terrible. doesn't really sound like a good suggestion.

the projectors in almost all the aftermarket headlights complete assemblies are designed for halogen and are lacking in quality. i've personally had 3 different brands and they were all garbage. it's a simple concept - get the right quality parts for the job the first time. the alternative is to buy garbage and be oblivious to causing problems for your fellow drivers. your choice.