led bulb in high beam housing

[wraithraven]

I replaced the highbeam with a led to use as a marker light. Lowbeam housing has the h4 bulb that is both high and low.

[F20A CB7]

shes bright.

[crazymikey]

Interesting idea.

[KB7]

i tried this myself, its not bright at all. with the camera facing the housing it looks bright, park the car at night 10 feet away from an unlit wall, and use only these, you'll find that the filament style bumper lights are probably brighter.

I do agree that they do look VERY good, but forget using your high beams functionally. and the best benefit, (other than looks), is that i can gaurantee that they will not blind oncomming cars

i would like to see how you retrofitted dual beam bulbs in the low beam housing, and see the out-put against a dark wall at night. i might consider doing my headlights like this, to light the brights up as well as increase the low beam lights. (more light equals better visibility)

oh dang it looks like you have one piecers, so the retro on usdm would be different

[Sunny_TK]

I have dual beam HID bulbs in my lowbeam headlights. I needed an H4 HID kit for my lowbeams, and i got hi-low bulbs (mix up, still works though). unfortunately, I cant hook up the high beam part of the bulb up because of the cars harness.... the highbeam part of the bulb is halogen.

but that just gave me an idea to run ground and power wire from the normal high beam to my hi/low hid kit.

... reading this over, it looks like it makes no sense lol. but i just wanted to say that its possible to fit high/low beam bulbs with no mods into the cars lowbeam side of the headlights

[wraithraven]

Yes these are one piece headlights. I ran the high and low beams wires to a relay and then to the duel filament h4 bulb, the high beam housing is a h1 led type bulb hooked up to the parking lights.


Low beam and led and fogs


parking lights

[antonio7566]

In Canada we already have those, from factory day time running lights

[wraithraven]

These are hooked up to parking lights, They are not day time running lights, but I want to use them like a DRL, only when I feel the need to.

[Accrdwgnguy]

Thats not a bad idea, I already have bi-xenon projectors in my low beams, this would work great for easy DRL's. Very nice!

[HondaCB7sb]

that looks really good. cheers!