2nd gen headlight upgrade in 2024

Would LED bulbs be an easy plug n play option? Or better to go with upgraded halogen bulbs?

 

You'll have to try them out put one on each side and see what you like they don't cost enough to be worried about it if you throw them in a drawer you can sell them to some other person. Do you have HID lights or halogens in the car now from the factory for the HIDs that make a great LED conversion that uses the shutters in the HID and everything and they're quite bright I have them in my JBL CD changer vehicle with HIDs and they've been in there for a while like them a lot If you're the kind of person that likes to take things apart you can buy a set of used very good condition factory original headlights put them in the oven less than 200 for about 40 minutes and get them hot peel the lenses off and then you can have your way with the interior of the lamp adding marimoto projectors and all kinds of LEDs and Halo rings and flashing things and all kinds of kid-like stuff that they put on these things now. If you look on Facebook in the Facebook groups you'll see all of the Asian kids with the generation twos with lights on them that look like they spent a week or so putting together I just saw some yesterday If you search the forums in Asia you can find people that will sell them to you Nice looking ones too some are really gaudy but some are done pretty well none of this stuff is really thought of for huge lighting actually a lot of it is for mostly bling Halo rings and different colors and all that sort of things what I'm talking about so it just depends where you are and what it is you really want to do but there are plenty of the kids in the groups that are playing with all of this stuff some do really nice work others not so much so you kind of have to be in the click and understand what's going on some people here in the States have done the same thing some guys don't mind doing it for other people then we'll charge for it others not so much to me it's really boring work and I'll let others mess with that stuff I don't really spend that much time driving at night anymore it's become quite unsafe actually to be out messing around at night with all that's going on in the present climate of the country we live in You might not be driving your car again in some places so yeah I'll skip the bottom of the night time stuff.

 

Look under the hood at your lamp housings if there's a bunch of yellow stickers and caution marks about high voltage you have the high intensity discharge lights so you will need the kit made by a l l a on Amazon that does the HID to LED conversion there about $59 follow the instructions and it's not a project You're connecting two wires and inserting a bulb which is tricky if you've never done this before you'll be loosening the front fender liner taking a 10 mm bolt out and pulling the front bumper cover back from each headlight so you can lift out the headlight assembly to change the D4S bulbs to the LEDs and then make a wiring change and plug up some plugs and back in they go

 

Mine is the UK spec, so normal halogen bulbs, nothing fancy. Any specific bulb brands, colours or ratings that are particularly good for gen 2s?

 

I personally like that Auxbeam S series I use them in three Gen2 the other Gen2 is hid with alla kit in it. All of them very bright on the halogen when you put the LED bulb in you have to crank down on your adjuster about eight half turns and you'll see the cutoff line magically appear on your wall set that to the right amount of inches or centimeters off the ground and do the other side and you're finished this is the up and down adjustment.

 

I was hoping for a discussion about this...

Standard halogen for a 9003 socket is what I'm looking for too... I have a friend who insists on the super extra bright ones and they only last 12months before they burn out. Thus far my experiements LEDs brighter than that has been failed.

DOES ANYONE KNOW OF THE BRIGHTEST LED HEADLIGHTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS?

 

I've got some of the brand I'm talking about when I talk about these things with people for the halogen replacements that are coming up on a 5 years old so I'm not sure how they're burning out in several months or a year mine are also fan less so there's no whining and no noise I wouldn't buy them until they made fanless so on and so forth so I'm not sure how this is possible brightest 9003 socket okay that's what we are in the generation 2 h4s 9003 so back in the old days before LEDs in the osrsm catalog on my Audi I used to run these tractor bulbs they were literally made for John Deere and Massey Ferguson tractors and they were ridiculous they were halogen of course this is before LEDs and my God when you put those things on everything else in the car went dim practically or it seemed like it probably needed a stiffening cap for the light bulbs It was hysterical A lot of guys over on the Audi VW list were using these in like 87 '89 somewhere in there maybe early 2000s I'd have to go over there and look but you can look Osram site In the industrial applications like for tractors I'm talking about I'm not sure exactly what tractor it was but in the OSRAM catalog it'll give you the breakdown and pictures of the bulb it's socket type it's rated of wattage and all of that some of those things are off the chain. But I haven't had any trouble with the AUX beam S series That's their top of the line usually they're probably up to the s45 by now I'm still running s1s and twos and have not replaced any every car I get I put a set in immediately got a set in the drawer ready to go in the next car I buy none have burnt out yet everything in the car stock as far as connection wires and all that the LEDs require no wiring upgrades no relay upgrades nothing.