(OPINION!) LED Replacement Headlamp Bulbs

SCVJeff wrote:

pconroy328 wrote:

GoPackGo wrote:

Chris Bryant wrote:
I still remember changing my parents Volvo to Cibie Z-beams, back when they were illegal. Amazing headlights with a razor sharp cutoff. Oncoming it looked like the bottom half of the bulb was not lit, high beams, both halves.
Personally, I think they still blow others out of the water.

I did the exact same thing on two cars back in the 70's. Very sharp cutoff - low on the left side and angled up on the right side on low beam. On high beam I could see across two counties. If those Cibie Z-beams would fit my F350, I would add them in a heartbeat. Best EVER.

Me three - Cibie Z's in my 1975 Opel. I was doing a ton of night driving and came to love those things.

They were the best!

When I was running 7" round Cessna landing light high beams, then rectangular headlights I was using Hellas for Low beams that had the same razor-sharp cutoff as the Cibe's, maybe even more so. It was ricidlous that European approved lights couldn't meet DOT standards only because they had a removable/ replaceable lamp. It took another 20+ years for USDOT standards to catch up, but the GE and Sylvania's of the world never came remotely close to the reflector nor lensing accuracy as what Hella and Cibe had been doing for a lifetime. It was no problem whatsoever to see those headlights behind or coming at you. There was Zero overshoot off of those reflectors. Now they're all chromed plastic that can't last only a few years before the sun eats them, and they still don't come close except for projectors.