[BoboTwo]

Hello Folks!

I've been searching fur some 8000k LEDs fur my 2022 WRX. Is there anything out there that'll work fur the hi-lo beams setup?

Thanks!

 

[silver_scooby]

You will find something eventually, the bulbs are standard sizes. But 8000k is an extremely weird blue light. It will blind everyone else, give you shit visibility and make the car look like an ebay special shitbox.

4000k to 4300k is the most natural white light with the best visibility. Driver side is stock halogen, right side is 4300k.

 

[BoboTwo]

hmmm... I guess charts vary with accuracy do to many variables. I thought the tint of blue looked really complementary with a Solar Orange WRX But if it's going to flag the car as some 'eBay special'...lol Then I guess I'll have to step down a couple thousand kelvins.

 

[silver_scooby]

hmmm... I guess charts vary with accuracy do to many variables. I thought the tint of blue looked really complementary with a Solar Orange WRX But if it's going to flag the car as some 'eBay special'...lol Then I guess I'll have to step down a couple thousand kelvins.

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Try stepping down by 3000K. The chart is very misleading. On the road, 4300K looks white, 5000K is a retina searing white with a light blue tint. 6000k onwards looks blue and 8000K up looks like disco blue lights.

Rant time: This arms race with ridiculously bright and white headlights is retarded and anything brighter and/or whiter than a 35W halogen bulb should be outlawed. Every fucking time I drive in the dark, I feel like I'm trying to drive inside a nightclub. Polarized tinted wing mirrors, tinted windows, dark polarized sunglasses & I still get blinded by the idiotic lifted truck lights behind me. It's worse on country lanes. With all the bright lights, eyes can't adjust and see what's on the side of the road just outside the light spread. I.e. you see pedestrians and animals at the last second. The French had the right idea, force every car, truck & moron on the road to have yellow headlight lenses, dim halogen bulbs and no other bright lights.

 

[CaTiRo79]

It would suck driving on county backroads at night with dim headlights.

I think the real problem is when people change/upgrade their lights they rarely correct the headlights so they have the correct cutoff point or they use LEDs on housing meant for halogens.

 

[XJman]

It would suck driving on county backroads at night with dim headlights.

No. From someone frequently in the backwater no.

 

[CaTiRo79]

I drive them every night and use brights when no vehicles are coming. Way too many deer, raccoons, possums, etc on these Bama roads.

 

[silver_scooby]

Not unless you have poor eyesight. It's much easier to drive with dim lights. Your eyes can adjust more easily to see things off to the side outside the light pattern.

Aftermarket lights are a lesser problem. The idiotic lift kits are a bigger problem.

 

[XJman]

I drive them every night and use brights when no vehicles are coming. Way too many deer, raccoons, possums, etc on these Bama roads.

Unless those roads are straight as an arrow what advantage do you have at long throw headlights?

I'm a Kentucky native and your "bama roads" are not different than any other rural roads in the south.

 

[BoboTwo]

It would suck driving on county backroads at night with dim headlights.

I think the real problem is when people change/upgrade their lights they rarely correct the headlights so they have the correct cutoff point or they use LEDs on housing meant for halogens.

Several factors can reduce or alter headlight illumination. I agree with u that headlights are often misaligned. Even the weight distribution in the car can change headlamp aim =)

 

[BoboTwo]

Try stepping down by 3000K. The chart is very misleading. On the road, 4300K looks white, 5000K is a retina searing white with a light blue tint. 6000k onwards looks blue and 8000K up looks like disco blue lights.

Integrate a variable color temperature and intensity dial into the circuitry from mellow yellow to gender-bender blue. That was my point silver_scoob. Charts are misleading do to a wide array of variables. I agree about those road warrior trucks that look like they partook in the Mad Max Series.

eBay blue for you just to make your day Some photoshopped extreme volumetric lighting (shine plugin) going on there lol!
You can just hear (Lou Rawls) being played over the radio: "you'll never find..." along with a vanity plate that says LUMENS.

 

[silver_scooby]

Several factors can reduce or alter headlight illumination. I agree with u that headlights are often misaligned. Even the weight distribution in the car can change headlamp aim =)

True, that's partly why high output lights are banned in most countries unless accompanied by a leveler.

Integrate a variable color temperature and intensity dial into the circuitry from mellow yellow to gender-bender blue. That was my point silver_scoob. Charts are misleading do to a wide array of variables. I agree about those road warrior trucks that look like they partook in the Mad Max Series.

eBay blue for you just to make your day Some photoshopped extreme volumetric lighting (shine plugin) going on there lol!
You can just hear (Lou Rawls) being played over the radio: "you'll never find..." along with a vanity plate that says LUMENS.
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Lol, this is a fantastic one. The jokes almost write themselves.