Trucklite LED headlights in a Defender

[Aubrey]

I fitted a HID 6000K hi/lo H4 kit to my Defender 90 SVX soon after getting her. Compared to the std. halogen units, a major improvement.

So when I noticed a good price on the round 7 inch Trucklite's, I had a pair shipped to me, 3 weeks and they arrived so today was time to fit them .....

Here an image of the std. HID units.......



Removing the HID units and headlights took longer than fitting the LED units ......



Here the LED on lo beam ....



And here on hi beam ....



Apart from an itch ...... HID units are a little more work to fit. H4 globes are replaced with the HID unit, you need to find a place to mount the HID active control unit and also source a 12 V direct supply ...... some vehicles needs a load simulator or the ECU goes crazy ....as mine did without the load unit.

LED is plug and play.

Main benefit is LED is a complete sealed unit so no water issues and Trucklite has Mil spec design. HID and H4 halogen face same challenge on water. Downside ...LED was 4x more expensive than the HID units.

Fitment on a Defender is a drop in. No mods needed.

Will check beam pattern tonight.

Cheers from Africa

Aubrey

 

[newhue]

and.......

to my mind at 4 times the price they would have to be at least better by double...... agree, disagree?

 

[wuntenn]

and.......

to my mind at 4 times the price they would have to be at least better by double...... agree, disagree?

Hmm.....inverse square law, which suggests you are correct - twice the power, four times the cost......

 

[Aubrey]

and.......

to my mind at 4 times the price they would have to be at least better by double...... agree, disagree?

Any Defender owner that compares scales of economy is heading to the looney bin