Pickup trucks headlights evaluated

The wifes new 2016 chevy truck headlights are bad on low beam. They have a horizontal line that has no light above that line. Example is we have 6 miles of county roads with several gullys to cross. As the trucks goes down the road ahead is completely black. Very dangerous as the road turns on two of those locations. The wife won't drive her truck at nite.
Her truck is about due for first free oil change. I plan on asking what GM's fix is for their very dangerous poor low beam light problem.
Her old '06 chevy truck didn't have any those issues with low beams.

Same with my '03 3rd gen Dodge with that horizontal black out line problem on the same roads.
My '01 2nd gen Dodge didn't have that problem. High beams are no problem with both trucks.....they light up the road and pastures on both sides of the road.

All I did was re-adjusted the headlights on my Ram. Parked in front of the garage door at night moved the right headlamp up one inch and the left headlamp half of an inch up. Truck was sitting about 20' from the door.

Now I can see just fine. The other drivers (mostly small cars) are not very happy but that's life. I try and make sure I'm over to the right a little at stop lights, otherwise the poor person in front of me get blinded (again small cars).

I think most trucks have their headlamps set low so as not to blind on coming traffic and vehicles in front of you at stop lights. My truck is running projector lamps that the IIHS rates as poor. Before adjusting them I would of agreed.

Don

You can improve them by adding relays on both
High and low beams and run the power straight to the battery.
Then you can install higher wattage bulbs.

It could be that I won't need headlights on my next vehicle. Pretty soon I'll be able to jump in my truck, tell her where I'm wanting to go and what time I want to be woke up.

:) Hi, this article didn't tell me much at all.

My 2000 Lincoln Navigator with Halogen bulbs is poor.

My wife's 2005 BMW X-3 with Halogen bulbs is good.

My 2014 F-150 with HID lights is super fantastic.

I wish all of these vehicles had cornering lights like some cars of the 70's.

jvann1 wrote:
LED Headlight replacement kits are available but you would think that with the price of a new vehicle, lighting should be one of the first things they would have thought about.

These don't work well, as the relector bowl is designed for a halogen filament bulb. LED bulbs need a projector lens to disperse the light properly. LED & HID retrofits into a halogen style refector scatter the light all over the place, blinding oncoming traffic as well as having a very short throw. Adding a proper projector lens matched to the type of bulb, while time consuming, is not that difficult, and yields amazing results.

LED Headlight replacement kits are available but you would think that with the price of a new vehicle, lighting should be one of the first things they would have thought about.

The ones in my 07 GMC classic are certainly nothing to write home to mother about either. Never could see worth a flip with them.
I tried changing the bulbs to some aftermarket ones but they sucked too.
I was going to change out the whole system to some custom HID ones but it was a ton of money.

I had a pair of aircraft landing lights on my old 78 Chevy. Now that was a pair of lights!
Had to run separate heavy duty relays and heavy wire for them though. Had to be real careful of oncoming traffic too.

One day I got busted for them and the cops ordered me to remove them. Darn!

Just like we mod our RVs, if you want good light output, without blinding oncoming traffic, you gotta mod your headlights.

I'm satisfied with the headlights with the fog logs combined on my '12 SD. I would say that there on par with my old '92 Chevy truck which I considered acceptable.