Pickup trucks headlights evaluated

JIMNLIN wrote:
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.

You have projector beam headlights. They are supposed to be like that so you don't blind oncoming drivers as much.
If you raise the housings up, you will get people flashing you because your light be be very bright in their eyes.

Me Again wrote:
I pushed the fog light button on shortly have purchasing our 2015 RAM a year ago and they still come on each time to truck is started. The fills in the missing area of the headlight low beam that has a horizontal cut off(light below, and none above).

Night driving is improved 300 percent.

Chris

This is he great thing about Ford and Chrysler. They have a memory and will always come on. On GM vehicles you always have to press the button to turn them on.

^Say it ain't so. You leave your cars parked outside in the sun year round and are getting UV damage? No way.
Btw, you can buy new headlights for most any vehicle on amazon for cheap.

transamz9 wrote:


My 2006 F350 are still clear as new. They have some road rash from following dump trucks and oversize loads but they are still clear. My Vice Prez's 2005 is also still clear with well over 300,000 miles on them.

Must be Florida sun and if the vehicle is parked outside all the time. My '05 Ram I've 'restored' 3 times since owning it, goes right back to fogged within a year. Toyota, which used to be pretty good (wife's 16 year old Camry is just starting to fog) is not as good as once was if the headlights on my daughter's '04 Corolla is any indication. Raging case of 'cataracts'; I've given up on them, even after using the 3M restoration kit, which is probably as good as any on the market.

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rickeoni wrote:

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.

x2 ... please don't put upgraded bulbs into a standard reflector housing. Spend a little extra $ and buy the projector upgrade, either OEM or after-market.

X3- It is also illegal to put an HID/LED bulb in a reflector housing made for halogen lights per DOT standards 49 CFR Section 571.108. You can however put them in a projector housing that is made for both HID and Halogen/HIR2.

thomasmnile wrote:
Light intensity aside, millions to the supplier that can manufacture a polycarbonate lenses that doesn't start clouding over a couple a years after you purchase ANY new vehicle.

My 2006 F350 are still clear as new. They have some road rash from following dump trucks and oversize loads but they are still clear. My Vice Prez's 2005 is also still clear with well over 300,000 miles on them.

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
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

Similar situation here :) Running empty, my 13 Ram headlights suck, however when the bed is full of gear and the trailer is hitched up, the headlights are very bright, according to other drivers.

rickeoni wrote:

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.

x2 ... please don't put upgraded bulbs into a standard reflector housing. Spend a little extra $ and buy the projector upgrade, either OEM or after-market.

Light intensity aside, millions to the supplier that can manufacture a polycarbonate lenses that doesn't start clouding over a couple a years after you purchase ANY new vehicle.

I pushed the fog light button on shortly have purchasing our 2015 RAM a year ago and they still come on each time to truck is started. The fills in the missing area of the headlight low beam that has a horizontal cut off(light below, and none above).

Night driving is improved 300 percent.

Chris