Headlight Upgrade

[WhiteMeat]

Originally Posted by bretto88

What's a Britax insert? Just had a Google and can't find anything obvious, got a link?

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Here you go:

http://www.inlandtruckcentres.com.au...lights-inserts

Britax inserts are simply replacement headlight housings with plastic rather than glass (like the OE headlights)

[bretto88]

Cheers mate. What makes them better? No lenses or bugger bulbs? Do they cause issues pulling more amps?

Seem like a good alternative to leds

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[WhiteMeat]

I found the britax inserts to not colour the light so much - OE headlights had a yellow tinge to them and the britax with ~80 bulbs (cant remember if I had phillips or narva / etc) makes it a bit brighter with less yellow. From there, I went to led 'bulbs' which replaced the standard globes - one died so ended up going trucklites and using some LED strip lighting for the parker lights

[Banshee]

A well designed & focused relector is what makes them so good. The inserts are just what holds the globe & directs the light & these are a very good one compared to the OEM inserts. Amps are only affected if you use high wattage globes in the inserts.

If you stick to H4 globes with a + rating, the amps are unaffected.

[st_za]

The Britax lenses are tough too and their waterproof-ness is impressive. Mine have seen their fair share of torrential rain, mud and stones (I drive through roadworks daily) and don't have any leaks, scratches or cracks.

I use Philips +130 bulbs which give very white light but I also use interior LEDs with blue-ish white light as the parkers (they use T10 wedge parker lights) to give the light a whiter appearance when you look at it.

I have tried the Ebay headlights advertised with the Philips LEDs and they have awesome high beams, very diffuse low beams and cause heaps of FM radio interference (a deal-breaker for me)

[Irishcoffee]

http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/usmcdoc/lights/


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[timbotrog]

I sell both the Britax and Narva inserts at work and side by side they are almost identical.

I only ended up with the Narva inserts as they were a considerable amount cheaper to me than the Britax.

I've been running Phillips +130 globes and they are a fantastic upgrade to both the low and high beam.
I'm not too fussed about the high beam as where I can use my high bean I turn my light bar on!

Another beauty of the Narva inserts is they are impervious to cracking after being left on all day and doing a river crossing with them left on.
The pic below is crossing the Murray River at Tom Groggin and I deliberately left the headlights on to prove they wouldn't crack.