OEM vs Aftermarket - Chinese JUNK Comparison
Last year January I posted a headlight thread regarding the crummy headlights my truck came with. I was looking for suggestions, solutions etc. There was a lot of great input and ideas, and I finally ...
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Skibane wrote:
Performance-wise, the LED retrofit headlight bulbs are all over the place.
Some are surprisingly good, and some are utter ****.
Me and quite a few other 2nd-generation Frontier owners have had excellent luck with the Katana 9007 LED bulbs.
Their LED emitters closely mimic the shape and position of the filaments in the incandescent bulb they replace, which makes a HUGE difference in avoiding a beam pattern that sprays light everywhere.
The earlier version that is equipped with a cooling fan works better than the more recent fanless version. (Most fanless designs reduce the LED brightness after a few minutes of operation, in order to avoid burning them up).
Mine have seen operation almost every night over the past 2 years, with one failure.
MUCH brighter than the original incandescents (without blinding oncoming drivers), and well worth the 55 bucks, IMO.
Curiously my 2003 Dodge RAM 2500 uses the 9007 bulb also. It had aftermarket fixtures in it when I bought it, and the light was scattered everywhere, so I ditched those and went back to OEM Damiler Chrysler light fixtures, which took some shopping in 2018 to find NEW originals. I MUCH prefer OEM lights.
The 2003-2005 RAM trucks have poor light distribution even with OEM lights, so I will look into these Katana lights. I DO NOT want BLUE lights, and at 6500K they would be but the information on Amazon says each KATANA bulb can light up to 6000 lumens,6500k extremely white light,5 times brighter than halogen.
So I'm gonna hold you responsible if I don't like them **WINK, WINK** NOT.
I don't want to be that SOB who is blinding other drivers.
Charles
