LEDs in the quad housing question

[herdbull]

Just swapped out the factory bulbs for LED bulbs in my quad headlights on my '22 Tradesman. I went with a quality bulb around $100/set. The bulbs are super bright and have a great beam pattern but..... there's always a but. With the low beams aimed properly the high beams are up to high. I've adjusted the high beams down to an acceptable level but now my lows are too close to the truck and don't project out enough.

It seems these bulbs are the opposite of light scatter and are highly focused as the beams don't overlap. Has anyone else run into this? Should I swap out the high beams for something else? HIDs maybe? The lows have a built in beam "reflector" inside the housing so I'm thinking I'm limited with options on those. Frustrated to say the least as the stock bulbs really blow and I spent decent money on bulbs and didn't just order some $20/pair off of Amazon.

 

[flan]

That sucks. Is the led bulb adjustable? Some are. You can twist the bulb portion independent of the base. If the led’s are at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock people say that is the best result, but yours may vary. If you don’t mind, which ones did you get? I bought some diode dynamics for my low beams and fog lights but haven’t got around to installing them yet.

 

[herdbull]

I ordered them from RPM956 (Fred). Great guy and awesome service. Bulbs look great but I think it might have to do with headlight design
Bulbs are clocked properly it just seems like the combination gives you too much of a good thing, the good thing being the beam pattern.

 

[flan]

I ordered them from RPM956 (Fred). Great guy and awesome service. Bulbs look great but I think it might have to do with headlight design
Bulbs are clocked properly it just seems like the combination gives you too much of a good thing, the good thing being the beam pattern.

Ok thanks, I’ve seen tons of recommendations for his bulb mostly on the Facebook Ram pages. It seems like you can get a pretty good pattern out of the halogen housings, at least according to videos I’ve watched on headlight revolution and diode dynamics. I guess I’ll be finding out this week when I get everything installed..

 

[herdbull]

If you could adjust them individually it would awesome. Then the problem goes away. The patterns are great, brightness is superb but the locations of the patterns are now concerning. Now I love the low beams so I maybe I keep them and go back to Halogen in the high beams? But then trying to match up the 6000K color will be a challenge.