AoA fellows. Since launch of civic facelift in Pakistan. There is a whole craze of replacing headlights to LED ones. However, i have a question from all on the forum.
"Why we should replace our Projector based headlights with LED headlights".
Few years back, we all were anxious to get projectors in our headlights as these were very good specially for HIDs. Now all of a sudden we are throwing these away at dirt price to get LED headlights. But why we should do it. Lets analyse it.
I want to say following in favor of honda LED lights.
a. LED is a new technology.
b. These are energy efficient.
c. They have better light output (only as compared to Halogens).
d. They look cool.
Now let's see some disadvantages.
a. Honda is offering multi LED headlights which are reflector housing based. A little old tech as compared to other high end companies which use single high power LED in a projector.
b. If any one LED goes out of order, whole light has to be changed or will require lot of tampering and ustadi to repair.
c. These are way expensive.
d. Their light output as compared to 35W 4300k or 6000k projector HID is much less.
e. Chinese ones have very less light as opposed to stock halogen lights.
f. OEM ones are better but have other disadvantages discussed from point a to d.
Now lets discuss some benefits of regular projector style lights.
a. They allow multiple options like HID, LED, Halogen and many other technologies.
b. Projectors easily support HID which have much better light output.
c. If we use some high quality LED bulbs, they also surpass light output of even HID (35W).
d. Easy to repair and upgrade with upcoming bulb technologies.
e. They also look coool if used with 4300k or 6000k HID/LED bulbs.
f. Lastly, they are stock and dont require any extra money to waist as stock LED headlights will require lot of money and effort to repair after these cars are 5 years plus old. Example is Corolla 2001-07 LED brakelights, almost every corolla has one or few LED bulbs fuzed.
What do you think guys, should we go for a flexible headlight system like projector+reflector or go for awfully expensive LED headlights only for looks.
Comments plz.