Thoughts on headlights?

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So I ordered these headlights off fleabay. They seem to be really good quality for the price. Don't really want to mess with leds or hids or any of that. My only concern is these don't have a reflector around the turn signals. Do y'all think that's gonna be an issue and they won't be bright enough?

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Send me a link to them when you get a minute? I think they will be perfectly fine honestly. Those look great BTW
 

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Mine are blacked out too.

Get a good LED bulb. No issues.

Plenty bright...
 

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Mine are blacked out too.

Get a good LED bulb. No issues.



See I really wasn't wanting to mess with resistors and all that jazz. Hoping I can just stick to normal bulbs and be ok.


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You could look around for one of the brighter OEM bulbs they make.

I mean, it won't be horrible but won't be super bright either.
 
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Any suggestions on that? I figure night time most anything will be ok. Daytime I need something at least passable. I don't wanna get tboned or something with my son in the car cause my blinker wasn't bright enough.


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Ha no, sorry.

That's the exact reason I swapped to led's. The halogens just aren't bright enough IMO.

My led's can be seen very easy even in the day.
 
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I'll do LEDs if I have to I guess. Gonna try out some others first and see.


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So I ordered these headlights off fleabay. They seem to be really good quality for the price. Don't really want to mess with leds or hids or any of that. My only concern is these don't have a reflector around the turn signals. Do y'all think that's gonna be an issue and they won't be bright enough?

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Do you have a picture of these headlights head on showing the lack of turn signal reflector?
 

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I will say this....I've had 4 resistors, one on each corner of my ram for over a year now with no issues.
 
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Do you have a picture of these headlights head on showing the lack of turn signal reflector?



I can take one later. That eBay link may show a better one though.


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I can't wait to see how you like these and how they fit. If they fit well and output is decent I will purchase them for mine.
 

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Yeah they look pretty sweet! Would love some in white!
 
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It'll be a bit. I'm going to run sylvania zxe bulbs and still waiting on them to come in. I also got some smoked fogs and so I don't want to have to tear it apart more than I have to. Looks to be a pain to get the fogs and headlights out.


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Leds are a great way to go. I got some once I swapped out headlights. It's way more noticeable during the day.
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Where are you guys mounting the resistors? I read that they can get like 300 degrees.


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