Have you had any luck with that? I've once tried a cheap HID kit in a halogen car, and it destroyed the beam pattern so bad, I had a lot less real road visibility despite the increased light output. I'm not sure what the state of LEDs is nowadays...
My Porsche has halogen bulbs that just aren't that bright, and I'd love to replace them with something brighter, but a used set of factory Porsche HIDs costs nearly as much as buying a good running car with them from the factory for some reason.
Ah boy - this is a conversation thats way too much for typing lol. Long story short, yes, I have had fantastic luck.
My RAM 2500 has arguably the worst headlights ever put into an OEM since the 80's.. and I've owned 80's cars so I can qualify that. Driving around w/ high beams on I can't even tell I have headlights on. Spent 4 months researching options. The absolute hands down best option is having Retro Shop US build a custom set of bi-xenon projector headlights. This would be about $1600. They can also do LED but the owner of the shop informed me those will 'look nice' but not perform nearly as well as the bi-xenons.
Anywho. Thats on my to-do list. In the meantime, I had researched cheaper options. I ended up buying some DDM Tuning LED's for I think $260 after researching output, color, lumens, accuracy, cut-off etc etc etc for all those months. Hands down I'd have paid TWICE what I did for them, they were that good. Are they as good as a custom bixenon bulbed projector? No. Are they 1,000% better than OEM? Yep. I dont even use my bright lights 99% of the time now, vs 100% of the time they were enabled prior.
Research your individual bulb type (h13, h7, 9003 etc) and see if they are better suited w/ a xenon upgrade or LED upgrade. The biggest mistake people make is thinking "an LED is an LED" and buying the $20 kit and not the $300 dollar kit. It's absolutely crucial to get a bulb that has the LED's where the OEM filaments fit! If you look at my dual-filament OEM halogen bulbs side by side w/ the DDM Tuning dual-LED... the filaments are precisely in the same location as one another. Its also important to clock the LED properly! I say this because my LED's fit into my housings several ways.. but they MUST be aligned 12-6 I believe it was. This ensures the low-beam filament is on the top and hits the proper reflector, and the high beam is on the bottom and also hits the proper reflectors (I may have mixed high/low location on the bulb up - trivialities)
When I say my RAM had dangerous OEM lighting, I'm not exaggerating. I couldn't tell if my auto headlights were turned on half the time. I may as well have been driving w/ no lights on. Upgrading to the DDM tuning bulbs... I can see the reflections of deer eyes or signage probably a mile up the road now.
So in short - research your bulb type - research if a xenon or LED bulb most aptly replaces them for their designated housing - and then buy the best bulb you can find.
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