Posts Tagged: DOT legal headlights

Why LED Bulbs Don’t Work in Halogen Headlights

Why Retrofitting LED Bulbs Into Halogen Headlights Is a Bad Idea (And Why I Never Recommend It) Quick Summary Here’s the truth: installing LED bulbs in a halogen headlight housing almost always makes your lighting worse—not better. • It is optically impossible for an LED bulb to reproduce the correct beam pattern when installed in a halogen headlight—this is physics, not opinion • Instead of producing the proper beam pattern, they create glare that blinds oncoming drivers • Because the beam pattern is glare, they actually throw LESS usable light … Read More