Adding driving lights to E-450 (UPDATE)
My coach is a 2008 E-450 Interested in adding driving lights , recommendations or experiences wanted.
Forum Discussion
For slower speed driving, yellow lighting at 150' is useless to me. OEM bulbs, relays, ceramic sockets, Silversnot miracle bulbs, whatever, was useless. I changed to CREE LED bulbs and now the first 50' is lit with white light. The thirty dollars I spent in California was a waste of money to get the headlights aligned in a state approved lamp alignment facility. Yeah, the voltage at the sockets is within .2vdc of battery voltage.
BUT BUT BUT
The new bulbs do not light up the road at a distance. I would guess beyond 100' the lighting is the same or poorer than 100/80 Hella El Maximo incandescent lamps.
My lights never did offend oncoming traffic when on low beam.
After suffering years of blinding HID brand new car blue dazzle, I am convinced regulations governing car lighting aren't worth two honkers of snot. BMWs and Ford lighting seem to be especially obnoxious.
I am going to install focused SPOT LED aux lamps to light up distance lighting. Rather stupid to try and illuminate beyond a quarter-mile distance (with OEM lamps) to blind other drivers without helping to see. The new intelligence in government regulations.
Now try and convince me, looking at a welding arc of approaching car lamps makes me safer when on the road.
BUT BUT BUT
The new bulbs do not light up the road at a distance. I would guess beyond 100' the lighting is the same or poorer than 100/80 Hella El Maximo incandescent lamps.
My lights never did offend oncoming traffic when on low beam.
After suffering years of blinding HID brand new car blue dazzle, I am convinced regulations governing car lighting aren't worth two honkers of snot. BMWs and Ford lighting seem to be especially obnoxious.
I am going to install focused SPOT LED aux lamps to light up distance lighting. Rather stupid to try and illuminate beyond a quarter-mile distance (with OEM lamps) to blind other drivers without helping to see. The new intelligence in government regulations.
Now try and convince me, looking at a welding arc of approaching car lamps makes me safer when on the road.
