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Originally Posted by curiosul
Background before the questions:
For about 7 years I'm using 55W HIDs on my cars and recently I found some nice 75W sets (true 75W).
I recently bought a new car (Ford Transit Connect Wagon) that comes with halogens in a reflective enclosure.
Stock bulbs were acceptable on dry pavement but like non existing on wet.
As soon as I switched to HIDs, it's like night and day. A friend of mine even told me that if there's anything he likes about that car it's the lights.
Now, because the new BRZ/86 has LEDs, it means no upgrading without changing the whole headlight which, in turn, means NO UPGRADING (settling basically).
I don't care about color, just light output on wet roads.
Questions:
How much worse is it (compared to the HIDs)?
Is it a strain to drive at night in the rain?
Also, from the pictures, it looks like the high beam is the same bulb that turns upwards. Is that the case?
Do you know of any (relatively cheap) upgrade method?
P.S. I've had the 75W set for almost a month and I was never flashed by incoming traffic. But that might also be because the headlights on the Transit Connect are way higher than on the BRZ therefore they are angled lower (for the same distance) therefore they need a higher deviation to bother people in the incoming lane
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Actual lumen output is ~17% lower per my friend's measurement thing (I have no idea what it's called).
I had no issues driving in the rain compared to the dry, with the LED headlights.
The high beam is similar in function to a "bixenon"; the shield flips up.
My solution will probably be to retrofit a 13-16 HID assembly, or a RS1.0/2.0/Release series headlight.