Has anything changed from the 12's to the 13's as far as the headlights?
I am getting a fare amount of people flashing me thinking I have my High's on. I only have 4500 miles and checked the alignment. The last one was from a $110k Mercedes which seemed funny. Oh, I do not have a lift kit or aftermarket tires besides the Rubicon wheels.
Something isn't aimed right if you're getting flashed for bright lights with stock headlights on a '13. Our 2013 lights aren't anywhere close to being bright when on low beam and no one ever has flashed us in the 10+ months we've owned it.
Find a level parking lot with a wall and park 25 ft away and see see what the beam pattern looks like on both low and high beam.
Something isn't aimed right if you're getting flashed for bright lights with stock headlights on a '13. Our 2013 lights aren't anywhere close to being bright when on low beam and no one ever has flashed us in the 10+ months we've owned it.
Find a level parking lot with a wall and park 25 ft away and see see what the beam pattern looks like on both low and high beam.
Stock Jeep headlights are horribly inefficient, so your lights are aimed incorrectly. Take it in for a warranty adjustment and once that is done, buy Trucklite or JW Speaker LED headlights and replace them yourself.
Get the trucklites, best purchase Ive made so far for my 2014 JKUR (2nd being the ace rock rails). You can get them for under $400 a set. The JW speakers are nice but not twice the price $800 nice.
Hella e-code light housing with Phillips x-treme 80+ h13 bulbs. Or get the h4 bulb conversion harness from rallylights and for around $100 you can have comparable light brightness and pattern as the high price jw speaker and trucklites setups.
I'm in UK and H4s fitted as standard. I too get flashed on low and the shift from hi to low is soooooo slow, do the US lights take an age from hi to low or vice versa?
I'm in UK and H4s fitted as standard. I too get flashed on low and the shift from hi to low is soooooo slow, do the US lights take an age from hi to low or vice versa?
There is a noticeable delay with those of my '14. Might be less than a second but seems longer since I've not seen such a delay in my previous vehicles.
Going to do the retrofit. To be honest, the stock JK housings are not what you think they are with a HID installed. Have a read through that thread i posted. They actually have a crisp pattern unlike 90% of headlamp housings on the market.
Im already invested in H4's so stock housings are not an option anymore. Hence a retrofit which is comparable.
Just get the Trucklites and be done. I went to the Hella H4s first, and while they were a big improvement I was burning out low beams every 6 months with the Phillips bulbs- one time both at once- that sucked. The Trucklites are amazing, the X pattern is noticeable but a non issue for me.
I debated going to an aftermarket housing and H4 bulb, but figured with my luck I'd end up replacing bulbs regularly and the cost versus Truck-Lites would end up being a wash over time.
One week in with the TLs, and I am loving them. I can see!!!! I put Inspired Cube fogs in also over the weekend, and the combo is performing incredibly well in the blizzard conditions we're in now.
It's the kind of lighting I expected out of a $35K vehicle.....
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