HID vs LED Headlight Bulbs

Are LED headlight bulbs finally better than HIDs?

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Moral of the story is, both are way better than Halogen

[seesikopter]

I hate the LED cars because no matter how „great“ they’ve been adjusted, they keep shimmering around the sides and if they go into curves they are still blinding, mainly this has happened to me on oncoming Tesla and Mercedes drivers especially. The lights have a tiny window where they ain’t blinding but shining onto the street, any other angle and it’ll blind you

[xAndroGamingx]

HIDs are designed to shoot focused light further out so you can actually see far ahead. LEDs will spread out that light instead of focusing outward and give the illusion that it's brighter

[alanlee]

HIDs are still superior for driving condtions imo. LEDs have greater lumens but their projection travel is significantly less than their HID counterparts.

[NheoxRS]

I tested both... I went back to HID, with properly adjusted headlights. LED is bright in low beam, but not very effective in high beam in my opinion

[fortunatedad]

I had HIDs and as soon as I switched to LEDs, I could see so much better at night.
Never going back to HIDs

[michaelgregory]

Only recommended for projector headlamps, and AIMED PROPERLY. Many are aimed too high, even from the factory. The beam cut off on the left should be level under hard acceleration, and sloping down when stopped or at consistent speed. People really need to stop putting these in reflector headlamps designed for halogens.

LED vs HID... now LED is equal or better in a lot of areas, however HID still has its place, for now. I don't care for all the high color temps though that are common, 6500K, 7000K... way to blue for my taste. My eyes prefer right around 4700K to 5000K.

[Dextrous]

CRI is important when it comes to variable driving conditions, that’s why HID’s are still the best even if they don’t seem brighter, they will illuminate better in fog, rain, and snow.

[eng.mohammedomran]

HID is more suitable for projectors
LEDs are not so great with projectors because the bulb it self does havd dark shadow insode
When using projectors you don't want any dark spots in the bulb you need a 360 lightning bulb in order to avoid those dark spots

[djglobol]

I have d1s leds in my headlights. They’re brighter than even osram cbb and cbi.

[patmer]

Too much foreground on the LED’s. It reflects back to the driver and that ambient foreground makes your eyes work harder to detect objects at 90 feet ! It’s just as important as having proper alignment of the hotspot/proper aim and focused beam of the projector (with shield for low beams) 🤷‍♂️

[mugiwaratrii]

Bought the Oscram Nightbreakers($200) for my Audi Q5, returned it and purchsed a 6000k LED bulbs for $80 and i love them so much more than the Oscrams. The oscram was slightly better than the OEM HiD bulbs, where as the LED was significantly brighter and i could see so much more. I love the LEDs. I still dont understand why people swear HIDs are better. All of bright lights on the roads are LEDs, not HIDs lmao.

[bestbomb]

The reflector in my projectors are burnt out so with my hid d1s bulbs i can barely see. Trying to figure out if going led is better than spending $1200 for a set of new not replaceable in the assembly / no available parts online as far as i know

[tysonchickennuggets]

This is not true. Generally hid are still brighter than led. And have a greater output area. But they need to be properly adjusted. U should instead talk abt the fact that hid are less efficient and don’t last as long even tho they do have superior light output.

[Tom-oc]

1 of my original hid bulbs started going bad and had them replaced with oem style hids. Now I'm regretting my decision. I think I should have went with some osram bulbs or even looked into leds. The replacement bulbs looked brighter the first few drives, and now they don't seem as powerful. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could upgrade to? I have a 2011 Toyota Avalon limited.

[EZ_]

Is it true that there is no plug and play option for swapping from HID to LED? I seen a couple videos saying you have to replace all kinds of stuff just to swap them.

[A-ty]

What kind of connector do the bulbs take in the start of the vid

[andreyperepic]

Led can not work with in the same environment where HID was before. Because LED is not one-spot light source, like HID or halogen. It needs another reflector to be used.

[Ghost-txjf]

Anybody know how to convert from Hid too LED

[Davd_Fih]

Keyword = old, for the HID. Not an apples to apples comparison