The Mrs came back from an evening cruise to report that the headlights were anemic. My guess is next to her BMW they are. Hasn’t really bothered me but I can see her pushing for an upgrade. Any suggestions on an LED upgrade? Is it as simple as swapping some bulbs? I remember seeing something awhile back on the site but couldn’t find it. Thanks in advance!
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Try these...
https://www.speedsterowners.co...eedsters-and-spyders
great upgrade and the owner, Thomas, is awesome. Been using for several years.
Been using these for several years. Awesome, and excellent customer service from the owner- Thomas. Guaranteed for life.
depending on what you have, you may only need bulbs. he also sells the entire set up, with fluted glass lenses.
You can search in the forum under Vintage car LEds. I believe a bunch of us swear by them.
cheers, Luis
I upgraded mine to the same ones. Amazing difference and look period correct. Fit perfectly.
They are not cheap but ... the picture says it all.
Plug and play, no wiring modifications ... just a great product.
jc
Jared, if you want modern lighting but are put off by the price of LED's, there's another option.
You can get lamp housings that are the same size and shape as a standard sealed beam headlight, but use H4 bulbs. They're plug and play with your existing headlight buckets but use any H4 bulb. No rewiring.
I did this a few months ago, and they make a huge difference.
Units are available from Hella, but these EMPI's are only $35 the pair and even come with 55/60 watt H4 bulbs at that price:
http://vwparts.aircooled.net/7...ens-p/ac945460ec.htm
One caveat though, if you do want to use 100-watt H4 bulbs, you'll probably want to install relays if you don't already have them (actually, not a bad idea no matter what headlights you use).
Thanks my good brothers for all the suggestions. I ordered from Vintage Cars LEDs today. I'm also looking to go LED for all the peripheral lights. Carey pointed me to superbrightLEDS. I will let everyone know how it turns out.
I don't have LED headlights, just Po-Boy H4 conversions that I installed back in 1999, but I was looking at them today and they looked downright cloudy - it appeared to be a cloudy film on the inside of the headlight unit. I found that it takes about 2 minutes to remove the headlight bucket, and another minute to figure out how to get the clips out that hold everything together, and then pop the sealed-beam-looking part out.
Once I had that out I found that it did, indeed, have some sort of a film on the inside of the glass. I used a small paper towel, carefully folded to a 2" square, several layers thick, as a wiper and doused it in alcohol then got it inside of the glass envelope and wiped it around as best I could on both the back side of the lens and on the reflector (I used a hemostat, but a plastic tool shaped like a hockey stick would work well) till all of the cloudiness was gone, then re-wiped with a dry paper towel piece til they looked like new.
I have no idea what caused this, but they've been in there for 19 years so a good cleaning every other decade won't kill me - and hopefully, they'll be brighter at night!
Somehow, I bet you could tell that it's been raining all day, right?
Yeah, we got yesterday what you got today! Today was not bad at all, I almost mowed the lawn!
I can't remember the last day when it didn't rain somewhere within 10 miles of me. It's probably been a month. I didn't have to drive my car to work today. I just caught a ride on some mosquitoes.
And now back to our regularly scheduled thread.
