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Old 11-05-2016, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Bravo3eco
This set you bought on Amazon will blind everything coming at you. Do yourself a huge favor and return them. Then buy the set the 4x4truckleds sells. That kit is adjustable and you can get it just right not to blind others. This is the only LED headlight setup that people here run. It is definitely tried and true.
They are not adjustable. I have them They are specifically slotted and only go in one way like the factory bulb.

Wrong again. Plenty of people here run the LED's from f150leds.com

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Yes, 4x4truckleds offering is fully adjustable. You snap the bulb into the housing and then you can still rotate the body. Instructions show how to rotated the light bulb so that you get safe output. I am thoroughly impressed with mine. I have made tweks to the rotation on them to get exactly what I want. This is sonple to do - just pop hood, rotate bulb body and done.

This is also the product (made by street glow) that f150leds carries now.
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Originally Posted by cmbezln
Whats the point in buying LEDs then? The brightness that doesn't bother others on the road is the brightness a halogen bulb provides. If you're going to adjust them down to what is good for everyone else you might as well stick with halogen.

The only thing that really stops people from being blinded and still adds brightness is a stepped cutoff that a projector provides.
The point is that I have vastly better light output at night now. Done in a safe manner with a proper cutoff. What I will tell you is the old addage - don't knock it untill you try it.
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Originally Posted by Bravo3eco
Yes, 4x4truckleds offering is fully adjustable. You snap the bulb into the housing and then you can still rotate the body. Instructions show how to rotated the light bulb so that you get safe output. I am thoroughly impressed with mine. I have made tweks to the rotation on them to get exactly what I want. This is sonple to do - just pop hood, rotate bulb body and done.

This is also the product (made by street glow) that f150leds carries now.
You must have got a different set then me because I had no instructions and I examined the bulb and there was no way it could be rotated. I even tried and there was no way
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You must have got a different set then me because I had no instructions and I examined the bulb and there was no way it could be rotated. I even tried and there was no way
You have 4x4truckleds H13? If so, there is a small Allen screw on the side that you remove which let's the led rotate from the base.
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Originally Posted by cmbezln
Whats the point in buying LEDs then? The brightness that doesn't bother others on the road is the brightness a halogen bulb provides. If you're going to adjust them down to what is good for everyone else you might as well stick with halogen.

The only thing that really stops people from being blinded and still adds brightness is a stepped cutoff that a projector provides.
Even 1980s halogen are aimed somewhat. Using a bulb that doesn't work with the reflector you have gives bad aiming.

I get flashed all the time with my factory projectors. Aimed properly.
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Originally Posted by Bravo3eco
This set you bought on Amazon will blind everything coming at you. Do yourself a huge favor and return them. Then buy the set the 4x4truckleds sells. That kit is adjustable and you can get it just right not to blind others. This is the only LED headlight setup that people here run. It is definitely tried and true.
I looked at the 4X4truckleds lights, but really I saw no huge benefit in function or design, just a huge difference in price, and Amazon gets stuff to me in 2 days with Prime. I figured I would just use the factory adjustment screw to adjust them down, but after installation when aimed on a wall they were at a perfectly acceptable height. So me and a buddy went to a dark parking lot and looked at the truck from different distances from inside his Focus, and we both agreed that the light was far from blinding. Brights was another story, but the regular low beam pattern seems just fine to me.

I've been driving in the pitch black of 5:30 in the morning everyday for a week now and have yet to be flashed by someone.

I almost always do avoid Amazon and especially eBay for truck parts, but I did my homework here and so far I see no problems. Also, these lights are only a temporary setup to help me get through the gnarly Utah winter, at which point I'm going to buy an aftermarket headlight with projectors anyways.
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Originally Posted by cmbezln
Whats the point in buying LEDs then? The brightness that doesn't bother others on the road is the brightness a halogen bulb provides. If you're going to adjust them down to what is good for everyone else you might as well stick with halogen.

The only thing that really stops people from being blinded and still adds brightness is a stepped cutoff that a projector provides.
I don't buy into this. I have seen led projectors from a company like Acura and Audi that seem blinding and HIDs and LED's in stock reflectors that aren't. Some people are also more sensitive to light than others which could be part of it. I have LED's on my truck for my fogs and they are bright as hell. I've only been flashed 3 times in a year total. If they were so horrible I'd get flashed all the time. It depends on other circumstances as well such as, weather, going uphill when someone is breaking the hill, two lanes vs 4 or 6, (distance away obviously), car or truck lifted, etc. my wife drives a stock Acura MDX and she gets flashed all the time with stock LEDs.
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You have 4x4truckleds H13? If so, there is a small Allen screw on the side that you remove which let's the led rotate from the base.
So how are they supposed to be? I have no directions that came with mine. No one seems to be high beaming me
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Originally Posted by brihvac
So how are they supposed to be? I have no directions that came with mine. No one seems to be high beaming me
The lowbeam with the shield should be under the LED. They should have been set the right way out of the box.

I've tested a few sets of H13's for 4x4truckleds and they always came preset correctly.

Here is the difference.

LED installed with the correct setting:
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Same LED installed the opposite way (incorrect):
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