Headlight Upgrade 1988 xjs
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I gave LED's a go some time back and found they would not switch between high and low beam although they would flash to high beam with the stork manually. May have been bad units but may also be to do with the beam latching set up in the relay.
The light output looked to me like a backward step anyway so I never followed up on the reason for the malfunction.
The light output looked to me like a backward step anyway so I never followed up on the reason for the malfunction.
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Romel,
The quad headlight setup will give you more light than the single one will as it gives you the H4 and the H1 on main beam. Also more adjustable. The only difference in the headlights (both types), is the beam pattern. They come in lefthand dip for RHD or righthand dip for LHD cars. This simply means that when you go to low beam the light pattern dips or goes down to the pavement/sidewalk side of the car. This so that the light doesn't shine onto the oncoming cars. Saying that l believe some US spec lights unlike the ROW, simply dip straight down.
The light pattern is set by the front lens, it is either a LHD or RHD pattern. The problem with LED H4s is the way the LEDs light focuses inside the headlight casing compared to the incandescent bulbs. That's why it is important in the LHD world not to buy UK (RHD) headlights. :-)
The quad headlight setup will give you more light than the single one will as it gives you the H4 and the H1 on main beam. Also more adjustable. The only difference in the headlights (both types), is the beam pattern. They come in lefthand dip for RHD or righthand dip for LHD cars. This simply means that when you go to low beam the light pattern dips or goes down to the pavement/sidewalk side of the car. This so that the light doesn't shine onto the oncoming cars. Saying that l believe some US spec lights unlike the ROW, simply dip straight down.
The light pattern is set by the front lens, it is either a LHD or RHD pattern. The problem with LED H4s is the way the LEDs light focuses inside the headlight casing compared to the incandescent bulbs. That's why it is important in the LHD world not to buy UK (RHD) headlights. :-)
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