Hey guys.
I have to say I'm surprised at the direction this thread turned.
I was a pre-order customer. Yes I did have to wait.
My truck is an 18 Black Express. Night edition? The one that comes all blacked out.
Anyways it came with Quads. They had blacked out chrome bezels so maybe that affected the light output from the halogen bulbs??? Anyways I found them to be horrible (factory blacked out quads).
To be perfectly honest, I was used to driving an Audi with factory BiXenon HID. The light output is fantastic with those.
The quads seemed almost dangerous. I put in a set of silver stars and had only marginally better output. I wasnt willing to put a brighter bulb (LED or HID) in my halogen reflectors because I didnt want to be "that guy" driving around blinding everyone. I mean what's the point of spending money on brighter bulbs for a low beam halogen reflector that doesnt provide a cut-off to reduce glare for on coming traffic? If you're the type of a$$ who doesnt care about blinding anyone, you could save yourself the money and just drive around with your high beams on permanently.
Anyways, I'm digressing.
Thought I would give the morimotos a shot.
My personal experience with them:
The bad:
1) I had some problems, I'm not gonna lie. My truck was a canadian truck with quads. So I had stupid factory DRLs enabled on my high beam wires. That wreaked havoc with the morimotos at first. I disabled DRLs with alphaobd and fixed that.
Unfortunately this meant I had to buy bluetooth obd2 adapter, alphaobd software, security bypass cable. I cant even remember the total for all three but I want to say 200-250 CAD
2) Aiming is a real pita. I dont know if it's just my year of truck but I had no knock outs where the morimoto aiming bolts are located. Which means you have to remove the headlight, make a fine adjustment, reinstall. Check aiming. Then rinse and repeat until you get it right. Not fun.
3) I dont like the fact that the DRL dimmer trigger wire is Inside the housing and therefore not accessible. I would have preferred that to be outside in the wiring harness where I can wire it to the low beam positive wire.
4) The wiring harness for the "trucks with halogen reflectors" is a bit of a dog's breakfast and has a pound of relays/resistors in play.
5) They dont seem to make enough heat to melt ice off the lenses like my Audis Xenons or the stock halogen reflectors. Where I live that might be a problem 4 or 5 times a year.
The good:
1) I personally feel that light output is awesome, as compared to my stock halogen quads. I've been meaning to do a video comparison with output shots but I've got a new baby at home and there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day anymore.(digressing ... In the coming weeks my brother who has a 19 classic Laramie is getting a xenon retrofit kit for his halogen projectors. The claim is that a clean cutoff will be maintained. if that turns out to be true We can do some side by side pictures of light output.)
2) the Drls are super bright.
3) the switchback turn signals are nice also.
4) they look oem imho. As in, they dont look like cheap aftermarket garbage.
Again I'm not saying this is fact, it's my personal opinion and experience so far. I'll look for melting and deforming tomorrow but I feel like I'd have noticed by now during one of my cleaning rituals.
FYI I just installed the matching fogs ( vertical xb led) and need to aim them still, but they are also a huge improvement over the stock halogens imho.
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