2012 Headlights

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ramjam71

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If anybody has the time to help I appreciate it. Stock 2012 1500 5.7 4x4 Original owner.
I desperately need to swap my headlights out for LED's. I cant see a damn thing at night with the current reflector halogen. Bought the best replacement bulbs i could find and its no better. Anybody with specific knowledge of my year that can link a seller that would have EVERYTHING I need to complete the changeover. Doesnt matter the $ amount. Id like good quality new housings with LED's and whatever else needed to make the switch.
Thanks Fellas
 

Nick@GotExhaust

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Our customers have been happy with Morimoto and Alphrexx. They are both quality options with good light output and enhance the looks of your RAM at the same time!

Check them out, message me for more info and a quote if interested
 

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I think if you are planning on keeping the truck the best solution is to bite bullet and pay for complete headlight replacements, and not just a bulb upgrade. Some of the LED bulbs are great, but your headlight reflector system is really not designed for "great" reflection. LED will be brighter, but I'm not sure it will give you what you want. There are some great vendors here and I see Nick has already reached out to you. You can also look at Headlight Revolution which has some really good videos to help with making a decision. Also, do a search on headlights here, but plan on spending some time reading.. The 3rd gen trucks did not have good headlights, and in my humble opinion it will take a full unit replacement to achieve what you want. I wish you luck, and please keep us posted in what you come with.

 

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Oops, I misspoke on the the 3rd gen of you truck. It is not, but the headlights still are not the best on the 4th gen which I have.. Sorry about that.
 

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I installed the Alpharexx Luxx on my 2012 Power Wagon a couple years ago
They work good ,great illumination down the road,don't blind oncoming cars,and reasonably priced
I wouldn't hesitate to buy them again
 

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I have the tinted headlight housings on my blacked out Ram Classic.The tint definitely has a negative impact on brightness LEDs ,I added
 

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I had the same problem as you have with the reflectors. I have to disagree with Bigskyroadglide's advice on Underground Lighting. They do have a slick web site: they advertise plug and play and no hassle returns. Their LEDs are actually far more expensive than some of the established vendors, but I was hoping to avoid hassles so chose to pay the premium price. Big mistake. Lights were not plug and play - in fact never did work. The few glimpses they did give were uncontrolled brightness. Vendor accused me of installing wrong. They said: "When doing the install you needed to leave the doors closed and locked. The key needed to be away" but the lights did not come with any instructions like that. After much screwing around trying to make them work, they told me that I might need "additional plug and play decoders." Return of the defective product was a major hassle, and the eventual credit was only 70 percent of the purchase price - for a defective product!
After that bad experience, I went to Headlight Revolution. Headlight Revolution's product was great and their service was great.
 

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