2011 headlight bulb upgrade

Hey guys, I have a 11’ SR5 and wanting a good bulb from oreillys that shines a similar color to a light bar. So when I put my light at on it’s a close match and do amber fog lights any suggestions? Nothing crazy expensive I just really like the “blue to orange” coloration. It’s a little more yellow than orange but I’m sure you guys are familiar.

 

I replaced with the Termitor Fahren led. Very happy with the performance of these.

 

Welcome.

Please don't be that person who puts LED or HID bulbs in a halogen reflector to look cool, all while blinding every driver on the road. Do it the right way and do a proper LED or HID projector retrofit.

 

Not everyone can afford that. H9 mod is the budget option.

 

I'm glad there are people on this forum as well that understand lighting.

If you can't "afford" to do it correctly, keep the halogen bulb in there. There is a right way, and a wrong way to do lighting. It affects the safety of other people on the road.
Believe it or not there is engineering behind lighting, and drop in LED's and HID's are not ever meant to be in a reflector designed for a halogen bulb. Nor are they meant to be put in projectors designed for halogens (most aftermarket, projector "style" headlight replacements).

 

H9 bulb mod is for 2014 - 2020 4Runners with the facelift and OEM projector housings. Putting an H9 bulb in the 2010-2013 reflector housing will have the same blinding effect as a drop in HID or LED bulb.

 

No different in projector housing as well. H9 do not have a cap like H11 to block the light flooding and use just the reflector mirrors. Why H9s are not used as low beams. Poeple just hack them to use as low beams.

 

And?

 

I'm one of those bad guys who use drop in LED bulbs on halogen housings.
Sorry I aint gonna remove the bumper and mess with wiring and add fuse tap in box, cutting the cover to run the drl wire, etc to change housings or do it again when they fail. Nor hack a bulb that ain't suppose to be there.

 

Nah, you'd just rather blind oncoming traffic with all of the high intensity glare above the cutoff lines and make it unsafe for others, while giving yourself a false sense of security that you have "better light". Seems about right from someone who would make a comment like that. Cool story though

 

Halogen reflector housings and halogen projector housing are two different animals. HID projectors and LED projectors have optics designed to run those specific types of lighting and have an even spread pattern with minimal to zero hotspots or light bleed above the cutoff.

H7 OEM halogen projectors will have the best optics for D2S HID bulbs. H11 projectors can be used with HID bulbs but will have noticeable hotspots. LED bulbs in almost all halogen projectors will have hotspots.

I would never recommend running anything other than the recommended bulb in a halogen reflector. There will be massive light bleed that will cause issues for oncoming drivers.

After reading OP's original post, it looks like he wants something that matches amber light bar colors?

 

Both are bad with glare above cut off line?

 

You can see the scatter above the cutoff line even with how close your vehicles are parked to the door.
Back them up the 25ft (aiming distance) from the door and it will be even worse above the cutoff. All that goes into other driver's eyes. Most people have a hard time understanding it unless they're very into lighting, how reflectors (halogen), projectors (halogen) are supposed to emit light. It makes sense after you understand why there's so much light above the cutoff in this case, then when you put an HID or LED in place of the designed halogen, that light above the cutoff turns into high intensity, scattered glare for oncoming traffic. There is nothing consistent about drop in LED bulb design and how it emits light. They cannot get it to match how halogen bulbs put out light, especially for the intensity of an LED. People think chip location "distance" compared to the halogen filament is the only thing, but there's a lot more to it than that. Couple that with a reflector housing or a projector designed for an HID or halogen, it's not going to disperse the light the same, or as designed...or consistently (between the same bulb or even the same housings).

 

Oops, looks like both are not going to help with the on coming traffic when they are further away 25ft in a real life scenario.

 

I have Alpharex headlights waiting to go in but had a stock bulb go out so I went with Silverstar Ultra drop in replacements until I stop being lazy and swap headlights. You can see the color difference over the OEM halogen fogs. I like them for what they are but if I was keeping the OEM lights I would have gone LED/HID.



For fogs I bought the OEM LED upgrade for when I install the Alpharex headlights. Yellow fogs look lame and I’ll save that for BD lights mounted behind the grill.