Today, I'm doing an LED headlight conversion review, using ...
[SNAP]
... this H4 LED projector bulb.
I've bought this H4 LED headlight projector
specifically for our Citroen C1 headlight
because the halogen reflector headlights on this car are absolutely diabolical,
as any C1 owner out there will know.
[LAUGHS]
I can hear a load of you out there shouting at your screens
"is LED headlight conversion legal"? Before you bail and click to another video,
let me say that the answer to that question, like many things in life,
is it depends. There are a number of factors. Mini projectors are road legal here in the UK.
To fit them into the headlight, first make sure that the LED driver is separated
from the light unit and then unscrew the fan unit. Place it somewhere safe.
Remove your standard H4 headlight bulb.
Mini projector fits in place of the H4 bulb. Before you put it in though,
one of the tags may have a screw in it, for adjusting the beam.
Unscrew it so it just goes level
there where the headlight tag fits into the headlight unit
Fit this in place of your standard headlight bulb.
Make sure that the bulb is seated properly in the headlight
and clip it in just as you would an H4 bulb. Screw the fan back onto the projector.
Snug it down, no need to go mad tightening it and reconnect the LED driver.
It's got a little groove and tag to align it properly.
to make sure that the correct pins are
connected to the correct socket and screw the two halves together.
Plug the other end into the bulb connector
I'm going to tie-wrap this to the harness after this video.
When I switch dipped beam on
the light comes out of the projector lens at the front just like it does
in a full-size projector headlight in any other car. If I switch to mainbeam,
the unit brings on an extra bank of LEDs which shine around the reflector, but the projector
led remains on so you get both dip beam and main beam at the same time.
You may have to adjust the level of your lights
but it's worked out well on these headlights
and neither do you need to have the observational power of the Hubble telescope
to tell which headlight is now by far and away the superior one. This one of course.
No, obviously, that one, the new projector.
It will be dark in about another hour.
Once it's dark, we'll go for a drive down country lanes to give them a proper test.
If you're liking what you see from this product, there's links down in the description.
Before you head off into the lanes in the dark, when it has gone dark or at least dusk,
park your car such that you're pointing towards a wall or a fence. Something with a darker colour
than a white garage door so that you can see the beam a little more clearly and park around about
20 feet or so away. Put the lights onto main beam and you remember that screw I talked to
you about earlier? Use a Phillips #1. Screw that screw in and what it does is adjust the position
of the main beam LED inside the headlight and that may allow you to focus the main beam
a little better into more of a driving beam. What you want is an oval in the distance so you don't
need too much height but you want more width. How successful that will be is dependent upon
the reflector that you've got in your headlight. On these it didn't do much to be honest so
I left it as it was. So here I am in a dark country lane pointing towards a junction with some
signs at a distance of approximately 250 meters. The right-hand headlight is the H4 projector
and the left-hand headlight has a standard H4 halogen bulb. I will cover the H4 projector,
so that's the standard halogen headlight. If I uncover the H4 projector just look at
that difference. If I cover the standard halogen you can now see one H4 projector all on its own.
If I put the main beam on and cover the projector, that's not a particularly brilliant headlight.
If I cover the halogen, you are getting the projector
just picking out the end of the road and reflecting quite brightly from the signs.
I'm looking forward very much to seeing how this performs with two H4 projectors.
If you got value from this video,
here's something else I think you will like. I shall see you next time.