Alright so now that my 2001 F150 4X4 OffRoad is up and running like a beast after throwing almost a grand in parts at it I wanted to do something else. I upgraded all the interior bulbs to white LED lights that I got off amazon from a company called JDM Astar. I am really happy with them and they are hella bright. I want to upgrade my exterior lights and housings but I don't klnow a lot about this. What is the best LED on the market? I want bright as I can get with a pure white color like 5000K to 6500Kwith a good beam pattern and I'm talking headlights fog lights and tail lights. I don't want a bulb that isn't brighter thaqn my stock headlights and I definitely want a bulb that shoots straight out instead of being foggy and all over the place. What do I need to look for in exterior bulbs. I want my truck to look awesome and be reaaly good quality and be really bright becsause I live in the country and its dark out here at night.

 

 

You can look into led bulbs up front but the pattern wont ne what you hope for. Check out superbrightled.com for fog and reverse light replacement. If you do LEDs in your corners get the flasher module so your lights don't hyper flash. As for heads go to theretrofitsource.com and pick up an mh1 universal kit with the color bulb you want. Best performance per value out there.

 

Do as rcairbear stated, and add a set of auxiliary driving lights for back-road nighttime drives if you feel the need to overdrive your high beams, or if you live where the deer and the antelope play "lets-run-out-in-front-of-cars-tonight" games like here in the mountains.

PLEASE do not install aftermarket HID's or LED bulbs in the factory housings (headlights *or* fogs), as the reflector housings on our trucks are *only* designed to properly focus the halogen bulbs specified. Anything else you install will result in poor pattern, scatter, and may blind (or at minimum, really annoy) oncoming drivers. IF you want HID's (or LED's), the way to do this properly is to retrofit projector housings into a set of Lightning/Harley housings. Still not DOT legal, but it will give you the correct pattern and horizontal cutoff.

You don't have to take my word for this. Grab some popcorn and read THIS PAGE at Daniel Stern Lighting for an in-depth, fact-backed explanation.

EDIT: For your taillights and reverse lights, Sylvania ZEVO bulbs are the only way to go, in my opinion. Yes, they're more expensive, but they're bright, and they last. Be sure to get red LED's to go behind a red lens, or they'll end up looking pink.

..

 

Wow thanks for that info that's awesome information

 

You're quite welcome!

 

I am not sure if this is an LED issue so please bare with me. Has anyone had problems with the backup camera not working after the truck has run for a bit? I installed reverse LEDs from 4x4truckleds.com and wonder if installing resistors will help. On cold starts most of the time the backup camera works so it is very strange. I know the reverse lights and the camera are linked in some way. I have a 2014 Raptor. Thanks

 

I'd suggest you post in the appropriate section for your year, but have to say that installing LED reverse bulbs should have no effect on the back-up camera working or not.

P.S. There's also a Raptor-specific section, but this issue wouldn't be Raptor only.

..