Thread: Cheap LED Headlights. Do you get what you pay for?

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I've compared a few cheap Chinese LED headlights to each other, as well as a $1600 pair of JW Speakers See this thread

The main down side to the cheap ones is there is very little difference in brightness from low beam to high beam.

The expensive projector type lights like JW Speaker have a much 'cleaner' beam pattern, see that thread link above. I've never driven with these myself, but feedback from customers is "awesome".

Mid priced 'Truck Lites' have great light output, but being a reflected beam, they are a bit patchy for my liking.

Of the cheap lights I compared, these are the ones I've stuck with on my County because they have a much better high beam than the others. They are not marked though, so are not compliant.


I see there is a new version of that light that does have compliance markings, and they're not unlike the lights from the link in the above post.


Back to your original question, "Do you get what you pay for" ? In my opinion, that's always the case, better quality usually means a higher price.
Value for money is a bit different. Of all the cheap Chinese headlights I've tried, none have failed, and for the price, I'm quite happy with the ones I'm using.

Cheers, Murray

I see there is a new version of that light that does have compliance markings, and they're not unlike the lights from the link in the above post.

Have you gota brand/model/supplier for those Murray?

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Originally Posted by rijidij

I've compared a few cheap Chinese LED headlights to each other, as well as a $1600 pair of JW Speakers See this thread

The main down side to the cheap ones is there is very little difference in brightness from low beam to high beam.

The expensive projector type lights like JW Speaker have a much 'cleaner' beam pattern, see that thread link above. I've never driven with these myself, but feedback from customers is "awesome".

Mid priced 'Truck Lites' have great light output, but being a reflected beam, they are a bit patchy for my liking.

Of the cheap lights I compared, these are the ones I've stuck with on my County because they have a much better high beam than the others. They are not marked though, so are not compliant.


I see there is a new version of that light that does have compliance markings, and they're not unlike the lights from the link in the above post.


Back to your original question, "Do you get what you pay for" ? In my opinion, that's always the case, better quality usually means a higher price.
Value for money is a bit different. Of all the cheap Chinese headlights I've tried, none have failed, and for the price, I'm quite happy with the ones I'm using.

Cheers, Murray

I have a cheap Chinese pair. Woefull. As said above the high beam is no different. I going to put the IPFs back in.

My auto sparky mate has had trouble with some of the cheaper LED lights and has noticed that some of them will create interference with the radio - almost like a static noise where the JW Speakers he has not had any of those problems.

The ones above on "Ike" are great...

Originally Posted by rijidij

I've compared a few cheap Chinese LED headlights to each other, as well as a $1600 pair of JW Speakers See this thread

The main down side to the cheap ones is there is very little difference in brightness from low beam to high beam.

The expensive projector type lights like JW Speaker have a much 'cleaner' beam pattern, see that thread link above. I've never driven with these myself, but feedback from customers is "awesome".

Mid priced 'Truck Lites' have great light output, but being a reflected beam, they are a bit patchy for my liking.

Of the cheap lights I compared, these are the ones I've stuck with on my County because they have a much better high beam than the others. They are not marked though, so are not compliant.


I see there is a new version of that light that does have compliance markings, and they're not unlike the lights from the link in the above post.


Back to your original question, "Do you get what you pay for" ? In my opinion, that's always the case, better quality usually means a higher price.
Value for money is a bit different. Of all the cheap Chinese headlights I've tried, none have failed, and for the price, I'm quite happy with the ones I'm using.

Cheers, Murray

Thanks for the link Murray and well done on the comparisons, it's very interesting and a great read.

I spoke to the seller of the lights I linked to and he mirrored what you were saying re the strength of the highbeams on his lights. He said many of his customers use spot lights as their highbeams. I have some IPF spot lights on my Puma that I've used once in 8 years. I could adjust these for use as my highbeams, at least they would get some use.

Anyone know of any downside to this approach?