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Old 07-19-2016 | 07:21 PM
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Fog lights before and after



Old 07-19-2016 | 08:20 PM
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Looks cool. What did you do?
Old 07-19-2016 | 08:36 PM
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Old 07-19-2016 | 09:12 PM
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Wow! Thats very blue.
Old 07-19-2016 | 10:45 PM
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So far I put the fog lights in. They are 10k LED from a company called OPT7 lighting. I also got their low beam LED replacement lights at 5000 K. It'll just be a little bit crisper and more of a pure white then stop. I've already done the reverse light switch I'll put a picture up and I'm going to order the LED blinkers for the mirrors and rear. I have led Amber blinkers up front but have not put them in yet until they all match. My whole interior is done LED also. It makes the car looks so clean and crisp at night you would be surprised
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Originally Posted by oo7spy
Wow! Thats very blue.
Honestly it's a little more blue than I thought it was going to be, but it looks so good at night and it actually increases visibility exponentially. The the way that they build their LED bulbs focuses the light on the ground and in front of you more than stock
Old 07-20-2016 | 11:10 AM
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Blue light can in no way increase visibility for a human. It's science.
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Originally Posted by cib16waker
Honestly it's a little more blue than I thought it was going to be, but it looks so good at night and it actually increases visibility exponentially. The the way that they build their LED bulbs focuses the light on the ground and in front of you more than stock


the 'look good at night' portion is subjective but visibility wise is a load of horsecrap. But you like the way it looks so that trumps everything else.

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Blue light can in no way increase visibility for a human. It's science.
Old 07-20-2016 | 12:21 PM
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That's why I got the 5000k headlights for visibility and I got the blue LED fog lights for looks. I know the blue falls off the four white on the color spectrum LOL
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Bit blue for my taste but I'm sure it looks better in person… hopefully
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Yeah it looks better in person than the picture. My camera is decent but it's not the best they have out there. Like I said, it was a lot more blue than I thought it would be but I'm still happy with it and it's definitely better for visibility than the stock ones are. I just wanted to add some color since everything else is Led white and red and Amber.
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Originally Posted by cib16waker
... it's definitely better for visibility than the stock ones are.
Old 07-20-2016 | 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by oo7spy
LOL it is...that dull amber color vs bright blue hid...don't hate lol, come on now
Old 07-21-2016 | 07:24 AM
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That is the first and only mention of HID in this thread. What gives?
Old 07-21-2016 | 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by oo7spy
That is the first and only mention of HID in this thread. What gives?
LED*** lol
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but it DOESN'T provide more visibility though...

​You can claim you like the way it looks all you want but stop with the claims


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Honestly it's a little more blue than I thought it was going to be, but it looks so good at night and it actually increases visibility exponentially. The the way that they build their LED bulbs focuses the light on the ground and in front of you more than stock
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Yeah it looks better in person than the picture. My camera is decent but it's not the best they have out there. Like I said, it was a lot more blue than I thought it would be but I'm still happy with it and it's definitely better for visibility than the stock ones are.
because it's 100% irrefutably false. Do they look great? That's subjective, but visibility is objective.
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Old 07-21-2016 | 10:09 AM
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LOL it is...that dull amber color vs bright blue hid...don't hate lol, come on now
I'm not hating. I am disputing your claims of better visibility. Please provide any tangible evidence to support your claims.

Stock halogen bulbs produce 600-800 lumens unless you have H1 bulbs, and then you will be lucky to get 1000-1200. VERY few LEDs on the car market can produce those numbers. Without more lumens you irrefutably cannot have better visibility unless one of the setups significantly scatters light, and the stock setup does not do that.

Furthermore, human photoreceptors in the eye have a reduced sensitivity to violet light. As you move down in wavelengths through the light spectrum from green, the eye sensitivity DECREASES exponentially. Sensitivity to blue light is about 10% of what it is to green/yellow.
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Old 07-22-2016 | 12:40 PM
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Which is why French cars used to have yellow headlights.

In fact very early on I seem to recall, they required one white one and one green one!
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Originally Posted by oo7spy
I'm not hating. I am disputing your claims of better visibility. Please provide any tangible evidence to support your claims.

Stock halogen bulbs produce 600-800 lumens unless you have H1 bulbs, and then you will be lucky to get 1000-1200. VERY few LEDs on the car market can produce those numbers. Without more lumens you irrefutably cannot have better visibility unless one of the setups significantly scatters light, and the stock setup does not do that.

Furthermore, human photoreceptors in the eye have a reduced sensitivity to violet light. As you move down in wavelengths through the light spectrum from green, the eye sensitivity DECREASES exponentially. Sensitivity to blue light is about 10% of what it is to green/yellow.
They are 700lumens. Idk, i notice that at night i can see further on the road down low than I could with the stocks. So i guess it's the same output just maybe the color that throws me off?
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Old 07-29-2016 | 02:52 PM
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Guys, if he says he can see better, he can see better. The internet is no place to be using science.
Old 07-29-2016 | 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by shmobby
Guys, if he says he can see better, he can see better. The internet is no place to be using science.

lol, but the lumens affect the counter balance of the variant road reflection which means that due to the average 80-85 degree weather in florida, you can only see 13.554 feet!!!!
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I hav yellow lite bulbz, which r bettr.
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Old 07-29-2016 | 02:56 PM
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I was going to do the Amber LED replacements instead of the blue. It really came down to which arrived faster to my house lol. I like the yellow also




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