Whats better LED or Kensun HID kit from amazon. Ive always been a HID kind of guy, but I just wanted to hear other peoples opinions.

 

I'm a big LED guy myself, having had them on my last two cars (admittedly both Acuras).

The light is so pure and clean, and good LED's give you a great spread of light without blinding oncoming drivers.

My experience with Nissan's HID's (wife's 2014 Altima) is that they're weak and yellow. Many aftermarket HID's are probably better, but I'd be sure to get a color temperature that isn't too yellow or too blue for best visibility.

Bottom line - if I were going to get new headlights and had the choice between HID and LED, I'd go LED hands down.

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Have you had factory LEDs on your 2 previous Acuras? (Didn't think they had LEDs). If you're talking about aftermarket LEDs you had, that would be a little unfair to compare aftermarket LEDs vs factory HIDs. I would say for argumentative sake, we would have to compare aftermarket LED vs aftermarket HID.

I've never tried LEDs and have had horrible experience with HID. The light was great, but upkeep was horrific. I took the wheels off of my Altima so many times just to access the lights.

I am very curious to see comparisons on our current vehicles. Except it seems that majority of forum members have factory LEDs.

 

I'm likely to have the dealer make the upgrade on the SL if thats the one i buy- i don't wanna do it myself on a brand new car- wondering if they would throw in the upgrade to make the sale.

 

Factory. All Acuras now have the "Jewel Eye" LED's. I had a 2014 RLX with them, and now a 2015 TLX with the LED's.

 

It would cost too much for a dealer to install the factory LEDs...the module alone comes with the headlight assemblies and each cost more than $1k each side. They probably wouldn't get involved in that installation.

 

When I get my maxima I wanted to change them to 55w HID's because I just really like the way they look and the amount of light they produce is higher than the LED's. Also HID's have a warning or buzzing canceller that i was also thinking of buying.

 

I haven't driven the Maxima with LED's, but I can't figure out why you say this. The LED headlights on my Acuras have been FAR better and brighter than any cars I've owned with HID's. Are the Nissan LED's that bad?

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I didn't see anyone complaining about the factory LEDs, but I've seen plenty of people complaining about the aftermarket ones in our projectors. The pictures of the Acuras headlight assembly seems crazy. From what I gather, they don't have projectors but more assigned reflectors. Also probably what helps is that we have 1 projector for each side. The Acuras use 3 reflectors on each side. I would assume that this would give th Acura headlight an advantage in terms of light being thrown further. I'm still doing some research before jumping in and getting LED headlights. I do see a lot of people saying that HIDs are currently better than the LEDs on the market.

 

Stick to HID in plug and play set ups.

 

Interesting in that S,SV and SL headlights are rated better than SR and Platinum:

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/veh...a-4-door-sedan

 

They also stated that the S, SV, and SL have LED projectors for low beam. Meanwhile, stating that the SR and Plat have Halogen projectors. Not sure if the tests are true for each trim respectively and was just mislabeled. I know the plug and play LED's are horrible.

Wish I had went with the HID setup, thinking about setting up my current LEDs and stick in my highbeams and get an HID in my low beams.

 

Are you saying the stock LED's are that bad?

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I have an SV so it's not stock. I replaced them with aftermarket LED plug and play kit.

 

Ratings are corrected for proper trims now.

 

Go with the OPT7 Flux Beam's bro, not bad at all.

 

I'm not all too convinced with the LED PnP. I will definitely be going with a morimoto xb55 HID kit and sticking these LEDs in the high beam. Then maybe somewhere down the line I will get a retrofit with clear lens projectors in the headlight when I decide to open her up, while installing the dynamic diode switchback.

 

Hello,

I did an aftermarket LED kit.
Makes the world of difference over factory bulbs.

 

It's all preference but good quality LED's are awesome. No flickering like I've had on HID's and low battery draw. I used to run HID's on all my cars until I tried LED bulbs and now I prefer LED's for sure.

I was told LED's and even HID's aren't that great for distance compared to halogen. Not sure I personally care enough to keep halogens over LED's or HID's if that is true.

 

HIDs will give you the distance the LED plug and plays have less distance than stock halogens. I currently have LEDs on my low beams and switching them out for HIDs

 

I have installed OPT 7 LEDs in my wife's Murano, just want to try after reading many good reviews. Looks good, nice color, but as you notice not reaching far enough. For city driving maybe ok, but rain and wet road condition driving with these LEDs is dangerous. I have Morimoto HID kit on order, and switching them out this weekend. I have HIDs installed in my Maxima and really like it. I think for now aftermarket LEDs in halogen projector housing, no matter what light output they claim are not safe for driving, specially in wet road conditions.

 

Agreed! Planning to switch out my headlights on my next project, but it's going to be an overhaul of the headlight assembly. Including the DD DRL switchbacks with the turn signal portion disconnected, changing out the projector lens with clear lens, and going with the Morimoto Elite HIDs.

 

I just put 6K LED's in. They are quite bluer than the DRL's but look much better than the stock halogens. I can't comment on light output as I have not driven it at night yet.

 

I have a 97 nissan maxima what kind of Led headlights you all recommend me

 

So guys any recommendation for Maxima 2016 SR not want mess with cables only want super white on headlamps and fog lights i read some nightmare with burning fuses and cables
any good brand?

 

Acura requires 5 times as many LED's as one HID? Dang!

 

What is the education level to post on maxima.org?

By your logic, "Mercedes and Audi require millions of times as many lasers as one HID! "
1. https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-ne...-ar180179.html
2. https://www.audi-technology-portal.d...er-technology1

 

No logic there. Just a quip. :-) Lighten up Lindros.

 

lightened. sorry.

 

Figured I'd hop in on this thread. I'm kinda new to the aftermarket headlight scene, but I did a full LED conversion on my '17 SL maxima out of sheer boredom and after troubleshooting and installing resistors for the turn signals, everything worked great.....Until I drove from Virginia to Texas and realized that I barely had twenty feet of visibility with my LED low beams. Horrible experience with a bad quality set of LED headlights. I swapped back to my stock headlights for now and after doing better research, I'm planning on this setup:

Low Beams : High Beams: Fog lights will be same as high beams or :
I think the biggest headache will be finding a nice hiding spot for the ballasts.
Also swapped out the headlights for a set of smoked headlights to blend in with the black
Just looking for advice or criticism.

 

Aren’t LEDS standard on all trims now? Just trade your 17 for a 20

 

It's tempting to trade up, but I've grown sentimentally attached to it.

 

If I were to buy LED headlights sold on ebay that are the full lamp and housing for the 2016 to 2018 model, can they be installed directly as plug and play to replace the halogen light/housing on my 2016 SV model? Im curious if the power cable and the original halogen models will support the led lights directly or if any additional modding is required to make this work.

 

SlickWilly,

Very interested on any solution you came up with on your conversion to LEDs. Was it a voltage problem? Halogens to LEDs?

 

I swapped to full LED in my 17 a few years ago. Hated the LEDs for low beams (weren’t bright enough in our projector style headlights) so I went to HIDs for the low beams. The ballasts are easy to hide on each side under the carpet paneling next to the fenders (sorry I don’t know what the technical term for it is lol).

Also for some reason I only needed resistors for my rear turn signals and not the front ones. Can anyone else confirm this?

 

Plug and play for all of it except the rear turn signals which need resistors to prevent the hyper flash.

 

Which one are better on this led headlights bulbs sir .