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Led Headlight Conversion

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With daylight saving coming to an end I need to upgrade the lighting soon.
It seems like a toss up between Superior Vision or Stedi unless others out there can recommend other brands.
I'm interested to hear everyone's opinions and suggestions.
Vehicle is a 2015 XLT with projector low beam and low beam is no better than the old 6 volt headlights I used to have on trailbikes back in the '80s.
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I originally had the LLA copperheads which were an improvement over the standard halogen globes.
One died about about 2yrs later so I thought I’d give the Stedi ones a go as I was impressed with the other products I had purchased.

The Stedi are so much brighter and easier fit due to not having the copper cooling strands. Instead they have a cooling fan.
Not sure about longevity as it’s only been about 9 months since I put them in but performance wise they are excellent!
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Eh!, mine have the copper bands?
Agree, like chalk and cheese

'no better than the old 6 volt headlights I used to have on trailbikes back in the '80s.'

You obviously never used to drive a 1956 VW;)
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"You obviously never used to drive a 1956 VW"

Learnt to drive in one in '76. At least it had 2 6v headlights!!!
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Stormtrooper wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:29 amThe Stedi are so much brighter and easier fit due to not having the copper cooling strands. Instead they have a cooling fan.
My Stedi have the copper fins for cooling.
When I got mine Stedi told me they were discontinuing the fan cooled type due to over heating.
I know several who have upgraded to Stedi over the last 8 months and they are all finned cooling.
Maybe they have gone back to fan recently.
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Stedi Projects the ones for projector lenses have the fans, copperheads have the big tails
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Thanks for all the replies. Have decided to go with the Stedi but it appears that they are out of stock of the low beam LED's. Have been away all weekend and will ring them when I get back to work tomorrow.
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m_attt wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2020 8:34 pm Stedi Projects the ones for projector lenses have the fans, copperheads have the big tails
I have hi & lo beam and both have copper tails.
I remember swearing trying to get it all evenly under the caps in a restricted area.
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I think we have slighty diff lights in uk as have the projector lenses with the drl/hi combo. Have coppertails in low beam an yes what a nightmare job.
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m_attt wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:17 am I think we have slighty diff lights in uk as have the projector lenses with the drl/hi combo. Have coppertails in low beam an yes what a nightmare job.
Yes, you have H15's from memory. We do not have the twin high beam design down here.
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