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A lot of people have been asking me recently about how to improve the lighting output on their car without switching to aftermarket headlights, and I just made a video

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A lot of people have been asking me recently about how to improve the lighting output on their car without switching to aftermarket headlights, and I just made a video with Morimoto where I switched to their aftermarket LED turn signals, reverse lights, and 5K headlight bulbs. Check it out!

http://youtu.be/iAis0vIk7Hg?si=6osIxtdB9S8QvESV
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LasFit LED conversion over any aftermarket bulb is the way to go, speaking from experience as I've done both. Additionally you get immediate on/off when using the flash function which is useless with HID bulbs.
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LasFit LED conversion over any aftermarket bulb is the way to go, speaking from experience as I've done both. Additionally you get immediate on/off when using the flash function which is useless with HID bulbs.
LED aftermarket bulbs in a factory xenon projector never yields good results. You can't tell me otherwise. The led does not disperse light the same way a factory xenon bulb does.

The best upgrade is $100 Osram nexgen cool blue intense.
The second best is the $50 morimoto bulbs.

What aftermarket hid bulb did you try? No-name $25 amazon hid bulbs?
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A lot of people have been asking me recently about how to improve the lighting output on their car without switching to aftermarket headlights, and I just made a video with Morimoto where I switched to their aftermarket LED turn signals, reverse lights, and 5K headlight bulbs. Check it out!

http://youtu.be/iAis0vIk7Hg?si=6osIxtdB9S8QvESV
Honestly your end results for the headlights don't show much of a difference. A better test would have been to show the night time light output of both bulbs before and after during a night drive.

I have both morimoto bulbs and osram bulbs in both of my cars and I know the morimoto is indeed a upgrade over factory Phillips bulbs. I'm just saying the video footage you showed at the end doesn't show much of a difference due to testing it in a well-lit garage parked so close to a wall.

A true test would be the lights shining on a flat wall 20 feet away in a completely dark environment (no tables or benches obstructing the flat wall) or simply take the car for a drive on a dark back road with no street lights.

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LED aftermarket bulbs in a factory xenon projector never yields good results. You can't tell me otherwise. The led does not disperse light the same way a factory xenon bulb does.

The best upgrade is $100 Osram nexgen cool blue intense.
The second best is the $50 morimoto bulbs.

What aftermarket hid bulb did you try? No-name $25 amazon hid bulbs?

The LASFIT LED system is heads and tails above the Osram night breaker HID and Garax HID both with STi lenses everyone used to recommend when I began on the forums 7 years ago. So you just got told otherwise by someone with experience in both, while you never provided your experience with LED's that supposedly "never yield good results".

I accept your apology for assuming I employ cheap parts as well.

I wouldn't put your Morimoto junk in a golf cart.
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I'm SOL on those - when you go to morimoto projectors - it's impossible to get the lockring and that LED bulb to work together... you'd need a way to seat the led bulb with the projector...

So I'd just go with an LED bulb projector combo as an entire unit:

https://lightwerkz.net/collections/led-projectors


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The LASFIT LED system is heads and tails above the Osram night breaker HID and Garax HID both with STi lenses everyone used to recommend when I began on the forums 7 years ago. So you just got told otherwise by someone with experience in both, while you never provided your experience with LED's that supposedly "never yield good results".

I accept your apology for assuming I employ cheap parts as well.

I wouldn't put your Morimoto junk in a golf cart.
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