Led H7 bulbs

SweetCaliber

Looking for a good quality set óf H7 LEDs for my low beams in projectors, anyone have any idea of a good brand?

Cheers!

Miscreant

SweetCaliber wrote: »

Looking for a good quality set óf H7 LEDs for my low beams in projectors, anyone have any idea of a good brand?

Cheers!

I used to use Osram Nightbreakers exclusively on my Volvo. I always found them to be a quality bulb with long life. The light they gave was outstanding too.

SweetCaliber

Miscreant wrote: »

I used to use Osram Nightbreakers exclusively on my Volvo. I always found them to be a quality bulb with long life. The light they gave was outstanding too.

Thanks, currently use them but they are too yellow compared to my DRLs and high beam, looking for leds as I need the temperature to be around 5000k+

NBar

Have you looked here

https://www.powerbulbs.com/store/category/led-car-bulbs/fitting/h7-499

SweetCaliber

NBar wrote: »

Have you looked here

https://www.powerbulbs.com/store/category/led-car-bulbs/fitting/h7-499

Ended up getting the OSRAM Ledriving Gen2's. Light output is fantastic in the projectors and they really make the front headlights look more premium.

hognef

SweetCaliber wrote: »

Ended up getting the OSRAM Ledriving Gen2's. Light output is fantastic in the projectors and they really make the front headlights look more premium.

"Please note: These products do not have ECE approval. This means they must not be used on public roads in any exterior application. Use on public roads leads to cancellation of operating license and loss of insurance coverage."

SweetCaliber

hognef wrote: »

"Please note: These products do not have ECE approval. This means they must not be used on public roads in any exterior application. Use on public roads leads to cancellation of operating license and loss of insurance coverage."

Funnily enough I bought them in Halfords, they were with the rest of the car bulbs and the packaging say nothing of that regard.

Guess I'll be returning them. Sigh. Back to old shoddy Halogens.

corks finest

Miscreant wrote:

I used to use Osram Nightbreakers exclusively on my Volvo. I always found them to be a quality bulb with long life. The light they gave was outstanding too.

Yeah I'd osrsms on my old car- marked improvement on original ones

OldmanMondeo

You are aware that LED h7 are not raod legal? Geat a set of Philips Whitevision or Osram Cool Blue, they are a Xenon effect and are road legal.

SweetCaliber

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

You are aware that LED h7 are not raod legal? Geat a set of Philips Whitevision or Osram Cool Blue, they are a Xenon effect and are road legal.

Yes, as I've said above I've returned them this morning, the cool blue are close enough to the Philips white vision arent they? I have the white vision ultra in my projectors now and they look more yellow than the stock bulbs.

Truckermal

hognef wrote: »

"Please note: These products do not have ECE approval. This means they must not be used on public roads in any exterior application. Use on public roads leads to cancellation of operating license and loss of insurance coverage."

Why would he need a operating licence for his car?

SweetCaliber

Truckermal wrote: »

Why would he need a operating licence for his car?

Im not sure, but to be honest I dont see why these dont have approval. Yes I understand in Reflector housings they blind people, however I put them into a projector housing, got them aligned.

I've gotten family to drive in front of me and past me and they are absolutely perfect. They do not blind, they point down below eye level at the road. The beam pattern from them is the exact same as the halogens when compared against a wall. The difference is I can actually see more of the road and its safer.

But guess none of that matters because they arent "approved". Just frustrates me.

corks finest

SweetCaliber wrote:

I've gotten family to drive in front of me and past me and they are absolutely perfect. They do not blind, they point down below eye level at the road. The beam pattern from them is the exact same as the halogens when compared against a wall. The difference is I can actually see more of the road and its safer.

TBH they can't be aligned and do bloody blind ppl,that's why they're banned,come across silly little boys weekly with incorrect bulbs,mis aligned etc absolutely blinding other drivers

SweetCaliber

corks finest wrote: »

TBH they can't be aligned and do bloody blind ppl,that's why they're banned,come across silly little boys weekly with incorrect bulbs,mis aligned etc absolutely blinding other drivers

They were aligned perfectly in the garage using a headlight alignment machine. Checking them up against a wall afterwards shows no hotspots and a perfect cut off line.

As I said I had family drive past and in front of me after the alignment and they had no issues at all, they were in no way blinding. In fact they were less bright than my old halogens in the older reflector housings I had before the projectors.

The last thing I would do is drive around blinding people, hence why I repetitively got family to drive behind and in past me a couple of times to be 100% sure.

Again in reflector housing I 100% agree they should not be used. The light gets reflected all over the place and is uncontrollable and when I see lads with HID kits and LED's in the reflector housings it frustrates me. The projector however has a cutoff and it is well below drivers in other cars.

Anyways they have been returned and halogens have been put back in.

Cee-Jay-Cee

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

You are aware that LED h7 are not raod legal? Geat a set of Philips Whitevision or Osram Cool Blue, they are a Xenon effect and are road legal.

No they’re not. They’re not remotely like xenon, they’re a slightly less yellow than bog standard halogen bulbs. Philips and Osram should be held to account for false advertising.

mikeecho

SweetCaliber wrote: »

Im not sure, but to be honest I dont see why these dont have approval. Yes I understand in Reflector housings they blind people, however I put them into a projector housing, got them aligned.

I've gotten family to drive in front of me and past me and they are absolutely perfect. They do not blind, they point down below eye level at the road. The beam pattern from them is the exact same as the halogens when compared against a wall. The difference is I can actually see more of the road and its safer.

But guess none of that matters because they arent "approved". Just frustrates me.

I have the Philips h7 LEDs in a projector housing, and they are fantastic.
Never been flashed by other cars, sailed thru the NCT.

The led h7s are a lot safer than some of the sh itty xenon setups that people have.

Kenny Logins

mikeecho wrote: »

I have the Philips h7 LEDs in a projector housing, and they are fantastic.
Never been flashed by other cars, sailed thru the NCT.

The led h7s are a lot safer than some of the sh itty xenon setups that people have.

Yeah, I didn't think there would be an issue fitting them in a projector lamp.

Cee-Jay-Cee

mikeecho wrote: »

I have the Philips h7 LEDs in a projector housing, and they are fantastic.
Never been flashed by other cars, sailed thru the NCT.

The led h7s are a lot safer than some of the sh itty xenon setups that people have.

Are washers or self levellers required for LED bulbs like HID bulbs?

mikeecho

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Are washers or self levellers required for LED bulbs like HID bulbs?

No requirement for them with led

Tropheus

mikeecho wrote: »

No requirement for them with led

Do they need to be in light housings designed for LED? They enforce this at the NCT for HIDs.

SweetCaliber

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Yeah, I didn't think there would be an issue fitting them in a projector lamp.

Other than insurance apparently according to OSRAM and other posters.

Blazer

mikeecho wrote: »

No requirement for them with led

LEDs are <2000 lumens hence why they don't need washers.
Some people say that in wet weather the light display drastically drops with dirt on the headlight as its not getting washed off or burnt off with the hotter xenons etc.
Must give them a shot anyway...can't be worse than the standard bmw halogen lights which are without a doubt the worst headlights in the world.

good thread on pistolheads about them.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1789635

corks finest

SweetCaliber wrote:

Ended up getting the OSRAM Ledriving Gen2's. Light output is fantastic in the projectors and they really make the front headlights look more premium.

Dear? Quick delivery? Osrams are fairly good

corks finest

Blazer wrote:

LEDs are

Think you're are bad my honda insight lights are awfullllll

SweetCaliber

corks finest wrote: »

Dear? Quick delivery? Osrams are fairly good

Got them in Halfrauds, 138 euro. Yeah the light out of them was fantastic and unlike cheaper led's there was no blindspot on them, a perfect beam pattern just like halogens in Projectors.

corks finest

SweetCaliber wrote:

Got them in Halfrauds, 138 euro. Yeah the light out of them was fantastic and unlike cheaper led's there was no blindspot on them, a perfect beam pattern just like halogens in Projectors.

Thank you