Agent47
Well-Known Member
I was going to write pretty much this, but I see that I was saved the effort.The keyword is retrofit. What you're describing is when people just buy LED or HID bulbs and pop them into the stock halogen to "upgrade" their lighting. People see that they're brighter and attribute that to automatically being able to see better. This usually brings about a slew of problems that people either don't notice or just ignore, such as hotspots, bleeding, poor distance projection, blinding oncoming traffic, etc just to name a few.
But it's cheaper and easier compared to the proper alternatives which are buying an actual proper housing or retrofitting a stock halogen housing to safely project LED/HID lighting.
If you want to become educated on the matter I suggest taking a stroll over to The Retrofit Source. Pretty knowledgeable place on the matter.
The factory LEDs are well worth it and I wouldn’t buy any new car with just halogens. It’s not about defending a choice, factory halogens have poor lighting in comparison to modern technology and have absolutely no place on new vehicles in 2018, ESPECIALLY given the prices on JLs.
A bulb swap will just be annoying to everyone around you, and there aren’t any quality aftermarket housing replacements yet.
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