Halogen to Auxbeam LED headlight bulbs. Failed

[Barnbuilt]

I recently purchased a set of auxbeam f16 LED bulbs for my JLU. I’ve used auxbeam before and was happy with them in my Silverado.
however, they ultimately did not work in my Jeep.

#1 the bulbs couldn’t be seated into the light housing. Due to the gasket on the light housing and the bulb not compressing enough
#2 after modifications to make them fit (removing seal). I discovered the bulbs wouldn’t sit correctly inside the reflector. The led emitters would not be perpendicular to the ground, therefore would produce an uneven light pattern
#3 the bulbs wouldnot plug into the harness, it seems the pins were off center by approximately 1/16 of an inch

Considering all 3 of those isssues I decided not to use the auxbeam bulbs. While I would love to use LED, I’ll stay halogen for now.

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[Barnbuilt]

The orange gasket is what I was going to remove to remedy issue #2, but it left the bulbs a little too loose. The only other options were to modify the seal on the factory housing (definite no), or dig through tractor supply and try to find one of similar size but thinner