Thank you for such a thorough and thoughtful review. It's rare to see someone who is considerate of other drivers and everyone's s safety. You're a good man.

I have to congratulate you! This video, your video, is a perfect example of what a test should be! This is a responsible review, made by intelligent people, thought of with good sense and consideration for other people, and the safety of others. Your video (and you) deserve my 5 stars review! Sincere congratulations!

You nailed this! I work at an auto parts store and try to explain why LED lights in halogen reflectors are a really bad idea because the light scatter pattern isn't safe for other drivers... Unfortunately, it seems that most of the people I talk to _simply don't care what their headlights do to other peoples vision!_ This is disheartening, to say the least.

Seems like everyone always compaes/reviews LED bulbs from driver perspective and not from the viewpoint of oncoming traffic or how it looks from behind you. Glad to see this perspective in video. No one seems to care about the other drivers on the road.👍

There is something really relaxing about your content, so easy to watch!

for canada, halogen bulbs are good they keep the headlights warm and helps to keep away snow around headlights.

Just watching this because of my own experiences with Lasfit Leds. I was running them for almost a year in my 2014 sentra. Brilliant light output, love how wide they are. But I couldn't stand the amount of cars that flashed me. Especially a few nights ago I decided to do a highway run after a long time not going on the highway. Now keep in mind, my car has a full led conversion for both the low and high beams. But I found myself struggling at highway speeds to see ahead, I feel as if the leds get washed out with less things to reflect off. I could see a bright spot clearly, but I just wanted a further extension of light. Going back to my halogens has shown me that the they spread the light evenly with the reflector unlike the leds. The leds have a very distinct bright spot, which I think affects your depth perception, as your eyes tend to focus on the area with the most light.

Thank you for your honest and thoughtful review. I came across your channel when checking out the Forester as a new vehicle for my partner. Your thoughtful videos assured me the Forester is a good choice and as of last Thursday evening she is now driving a 2020 Forester and loving it. The quality of your videos compelled me to subscribe and enjoy many of your videos over the past weeks. Your good work is appreciated.

Thank you so much for taking your time and educating us. I hope this video creates a difference and urges people to think about other drivers when installing certain equipment in their vehicle. Thanks again for spending the time on this video.

Great video! When I bought my 03 Santa Fe I was thinking LED would be the way to go, and luckily asked a friend for his recommendations. He pretty much told me everything you discovered and demonstrated in this video and talked me out of it. I hate being blinded by LED headlights, so I'm glad I'm not part of that problem myself.

Hats off to you sir! Congratulations on making the first excellent comprehensive video answering almost any and all questions I may have ever had in installing LEDs in my 2021 Honda CRV Special Edition. Guessing by the projector housing for low beams I could use H11 LEDs, and just brighter white bulbs (whiter halogens) for the high beams. Thanks so much!

Thanks for giving a honest review on the LASFIT brand LED lights & concerns that may come with the LED light conversion. Stay safe.

I don't want to seem lame because the content was great but the camera angles and story were really well done. It was really nice to watch while also providing great info. Just wanted to mention it, as you obviously took care in setting them up. Thanks!

Very insightful, through, and most importantly unbiased and honest review of your observations. Blinding oncoming traffic is something you don't want to do. Most people don't give a hoot, glad you are considerate to fellow drivers. There are other options in LED headlights such as Diode Dynamics SL1, Morimoto Two Stoke 2.0, that have been tested and have a light output pattern similar to stock headlights.

When you replace ANY headlight bulb. CHECK THE ALIGNMENT!! Yours are about 2 degrees higher than they should be.

The main problem at night is the blinding lights from each angle. Respectful review ! Thanks man, it should help people divert from buying LED to blinde other people when not design to have them in first place...

Thanks for this great and fair review. Here in Germany it is not allowed to retrofit your halogens with aftermarket LED bulbs, because of all the reasons you mentioned. But I replaced all the indoor lights in my Forester SH with LEDs. It is legal and makes a big difference.

Very informative and honest review. Hope more people are considerate like you do.

I appreciate the honesty Donald! I too received LASfit LED lights for review but you're absolutely right, the housing has to be designed for them. My Honda Passport came with full LED lighting with the exception of the high beams, and as you said in your video, high beam LED's make for a worthy replacement since they're only used in certain situations when no one is in front. I absolutely love my OEM LED low beams and fog lights, there's no scatter, just a straight line of light. With that said, I think it may be worth finding a nice LED headlight housing with a proper reflection pattern

Thank you for being fair and saying the truth. Reflector housings were not designed for LEDs.

Wow, great in-depth discussion on the application of LED's in Halogen reflectors. Good points. Thanks!!!

Thanks for the thorough thought put into this. I hadn't even considered some things. VERY helpful and made my decision easy!

Nice thoughtful through review, Lasfit should have been pleased you did such a good review of their product, and provided your honest thoughts and concerns. I appreciate the review and your impressions of their functionality; great observations!

I thought this was a very thoughtful and fair review. If a manufacturer thinks twice about sending you a product to review, the consumer should automatically think twice about buying it.

Great review with real world results. I installed LED's in my 17' Colorado and to adjust them down a bit. I see better and I'm not getting flashed by oncoming drivers.

Brilliant, thorough review.

Great video. A really honest review and very helpful. Thank you for this.

Wow. thoughtful review. I often had the same questions stirring around in my head as to improving my light output at the expense of oncoming traffic. Anyhow, thanks for the in depth review

Thanks for being honest! Someone will send you a product because they want a honest opinion. Sometimes it hurts, but once people know you are honest, companies will want your backing if they think they are selling a good product. Think of it this way, you probably just got rid of 90 percent of junk to review! Good for you and good for honest/quality producers/products. George

Thanks for the honest review and being a considerate human being. Most people ( sadly ) realize that LEDs do produce more usable light and could care less about other drivers. LEDs seem to be hit or miss on longevity.

Thank you for the honest review. Your side by side (top over bottom) comparison was fantastic, very well done. Looks like Lasfit would be good for a "brights" option. I love light, LED everything! Purchased my H8/9/11 headlamps on headlight revolution's site w/lifetime warranty - they do have options. Great light, no one has flashed me in 30k miles. I drive with headlights on - day and night. Expensive, but you get what you pay for (unless you get free samples!) Yes, there are backup LEDs out there for us, and they are not expensive as they don't have to or need to meet any legal/considerate requirements. Inexpensive interior LED kits also out there. (SJ, 18')

Thank you for the honest review. I wish many people could be respectful like you. Many thanks.

The light output pattern is good, aiming them down and to the right just a touch should do the trick. Keep in mind the more weight in back, the higher the aim point of the headlights.

Very good review. Super informative

It's just so amazing to see a review where the reviewer isn't pretending. Thanks for your honesty. You might not get more LED lights sent your way but you will definitely sleep better at night ;)

Great review and very chilled one too. 👍 I've also concluded the same as you did and saw somewhere that to retrofit LEDs in a headlight not designed for LED is not recommended as seen in your video. However it is possible to retrofit LEDs in projector headlight as the light works different and the beam patters is shaped by a metal curtain between the bulb and the lens. I never tried LEDs as there's no space inside the housing for these (Volvo V50 with factory fit projector lens with H7 bild) soI recently got a pare of Osram Night breaker Laser H7 bulds and that made such a different compares to normal H7 bild. I also cleaned the projector lens itself which also made a difference 👍. Thank you for a great video.

Well you just saved me $100. Appreciate the honest review.

This was one of the things I was most worried about when I installed one of the better-reviewed aftermarket LED drop-ins in my 2012 Forester. I installed the lights at night and parked where I could compare where the LED's shine on a fence against the original halogens. I actually found that, when correctly clocked, the LEDs gave a sharper cutoff at the top of the field and didn't shine noticably higher. Based on my short time in stage lighting, I've seen how much of an effect can be had on a projected beam by slightly moving the filament of a lamp, and projector headlights are no different.

I love your attitude towards other road users and thinking about the safety of all traffic around you. I wish more people would consider others as much as you did in this case. I plan to install those in my wife's Lexus CT. It is also running H11 bulbs, but unlike your Subie, it does not have an open reflector. It is equipped with a reflector lens and I think it should be far less disturbing for oncomming traffic. We will see. Thanks for this film!

Very good video with awesome details. I'm retaining my stock headlights on my VW passat 👏🇨🇦

Thank you for a thoughtful and nicely balanced review.

A very well made video, very informative. Thanks!

Very good & interesting video here. I must say that you've really done long & arduous work here. Coincidently I also replaced the old and aging halogen in 2007 Ford Explorer with brand new LEDs. Yeah, 2 things that I noticed: 1 - I can see anything to everything. 2 - I do have the same fear just as you're saying that people might think that I've got the brights on but so far I haven't seen anyone flashing back at me. However just make things clearer my 2007 Ford Explorer also has the same umbrella in the light housing and likewise the light emission is actually reflected out on the road from the rear reflector wall, so this makes the bandwidth of light beam on the road quite even. Also, I have installed or replaced actually the halogen bulbs from the fog to the LEDs. So if any given time I have a fear that I'm a nuisance o the road with headlights on I switches on the Fogs only and have a comfortable field of vision. My second last point in this argument here is more important for me. My eyesight isn't good at all. after going with aftermarket LEDs I feel I am a more relaxed driver and can see much much better than before so the chances of me becoming a contributing factor of an accident on the road now considerably reduced. In my area almost every other car is brand new so either they're on HID or LED as OEM. So my last thought related to the last part: Almost all the new cars esp luxury cars they are now fitted with extremely high-end tech lighting system rather quite fancy in Audi so to speaks as they can project a movie on the road as well and any letter or word you can put in the program. These adaptive lightning systems are awfully expensive. That 2014 BMW i8 fancy Laser light system 1 - headlight cost incase of full replacement cost over $10000. Even though that example is one end of the extreme, however, newer the with the newest tech costing a lot more then some could easily catch up to them.

Thanks for your honest review!

Super helpful - thanks! Would HID be a better choice for halogen replacement?

Good review and video, thanks.

Wow...great review! Even better humanbeing! I subscribed simply off of your ethics as a person...the world needs more kind and considerate people like you! Thanks for an awesome job.

In germany its illegal to fit those to your car bacause led headlights need to self adjust instantly, like when youre going over a bump it instantly needs to react. And even then they sometimes blind others. Very thoughtful, honest and informative video, keep it up!

Thanks for your honest review. I was considering these bulbs for my 2017 Tucson but was concerned about blinding oncoming traffic. After all I hate other people that put these darn bulbs in their POS cars and blind me. I don’t want to be one of ‘those’ people. I think I’ll look into other options. Thank you.

Great honest review!👍

Very nice realistic review , Thank you and i have the exact same thoughts too

A sponsored review that's honest and fair and not all rosy? Rare. Thank you, I'm subscribing! (and if LASFIT still sends you another LED set to try in spite of your real review - I'm buying.)

Thank you, it's a great video and great test

Excellent and honest review which I found helpful

Good unbiased review; and the free form jazz is great.

Thank you for your honest review of this product and your explanation in general of why LED bulbs aren’t right in halogen housings. I really wanted this to be a positive review because my wife’s Chevy Traverse low beams are awful. I was hopeful that this would be the fix!

best led review I've seen thus far! I have a pair i need to put on my passat soon. I probably wont get flashed in florida everyone seems to drive huge trucks and suvs.

Great review. Hope more venders send you more free stuff for test. Love all your vlogs.

Very thorough analysis… First off even “factory” vehicles with “factory” LEDs are blinding to on coming traffic… LEDs are just brighter and throw more light to the point that even designed by a manufacturer it still produces more light. Technology is coming in the way of the headlights being able to shut off the drivers side as another vehicle passes but we’re years away, plus we’re years behind what Great Britain has vs what we’re allowed here… Great video, just feel personally that I care more about what I can see vs what others see with me coming but I live in a country setting so my daily “light issues” vary greatly… Keep up the great work!

Thanks for being considerate and acknowledging that they are blinding other drivers. I've come across so many vehicles with "a-hole blue" (official colour) LEDs that were probably brighter than halogens on high beam. I'm sure there is some kind of app to measure lumen output 😁

Agree with what you said and in many occasions I did experience myself. Well-done mate!

Great impartial review I've now decided upgrading is not a good idea. Thanks!

Thank you for the good review. I've seen a few reviews for other type of LED's but didn't realize at any time that the housing reflector needs to be different for LED compared to regular or halogen lights. As I am going to replace my two front headlight assemblies anyway I looked for LED headlight assembly for my make and model car. I found some that cost a bit more than the regular assemblies, however, the work with LED AND they look much cooler.

As always you have shot another great video! I have mixed feelings because of where we live. When my Forester passed away I bought a used VW Golf to drive back and forth to work. Someone took the original housing for the car out and replaced them with ones from a 337 GTI. With STOCK bulbs I have no need to upgrade my bulbs or even use my high beams. I do need some fog lights though. We live IN the mountains and I work second shift so I don’t leave work until after 10pm. It’s DARK here there are no street lights near us, lots of deer, dogs, and other critters. My wife works on the other side of the pass, and it’s even darker for her to drive at night. When I find the Subaru I want I plan to check into some aftermarket headlight housing “ if there is such a thing.” If not then going to definitely find a brighter bulb than my old Subaru had. I agree with you about the interior lights though they are terrible.

Great review.

My car has LEDs from factory and I still get flashes because people think I drive with my high beam on. But I did appreciated your honest review. Keep it up!

Great review 👍🇬🇧

Hi, Today I replaced a light bulb (5w halogen) located near the pedals, and before I changed it, it used to work few seconds after I open/close doors. Today I replaced it with a beautiful Led T10. It works but now is still on even if I am driving. I like it but.. Is there any problem? Do you recommend me going back to halogen in order to avoid other issues? Thank you in advance!

Very helpful information

Hey, thanks. Looking forward to the fire truck video!

Thanks! Great review. I can't tell you how tiring to one's eye when the person behind you are blaring their LED in your rear view mirror for miles and miles down a one-lane road. It's like constantly on high beam. Yes… Better for the driver. But not necessary for everyone else. Especially in the urban and even suburban environment. It's great for your off-roading. You need all the lights.

Great review and you bring up the important point they reflector housings tend to throw LED lighting all over the place as opposed to projectors. I did install KED’s as high beams on my Outback, as you said they aren’t used with incoming cars and it does a great job illuminating back roads frequented by deer at night. I use slightly upgraded halogens for low beams

Great comparison video and review.... when I converted my car's halogen to LEDs, I made sure to adjust the headlight height (there are screws on the back of the headlight housing... one for up and down adjustment and another one for left and right adjustment) .... just lower the height accordingly so as not to blind oncoming traffic... there are a lot of YT videos that give a tutorial on this.

I appreciate an honest review, I sincerely hope that it is not your last.

Good review man. I was actually thinking of installing some on my Crosstrek but I guess I’ll just install them on my Fog lights I think that would be a better option

Thank you for your honesty, It would be nice if this information fell into the right hands, thank you again

I'm glad you went with the LED vs Halogen glare to oncoming drivers comparaison, because it was my main concern about this upgrade. I already had my own idea (that's why I never bought them) but you just comfirm that. Thanks ! And just like you, I'm not a scientist but I always heard that yellowish lights are better for eyes fatigue during long drives than the bright white/blueish ones, even if you see better with them.

yup. been blinded by lots of people, trucks, SUV, sedans that have lights that are too bright. it sucks when they pull up behind you. thanks for taking that into consideration!

Very well made video. You made up my mind, I'm good with my stock bulbs. I might just do the high beams, but the lows and fogs will stay halogen. Thank you, again, great video.

Great video!

I totally 100% agree with you! Very nice input

Excellent review, analysis and commentary. Thank you.

I know you weren't looking for lights, but if you are interested in others.. Diode Dynamics has done a lot of research and have plug and play headlights that work with housings properly. They actually have quite a few options available for the forester including reverse lights. I ran into similar issues with other "cheaper" LED lights with the beams just being too wide and not very focused. I didn't have that issue on my crosstrek with the SL1 lights from diode. Anyway, give them a shot if you're in the market. Appreciate the honest review and tests you setup to confirm things.

Thanks for the Honest review ; Blue light from the led headlights is also blinding the other drivers. For the same reason that phones now have blue light filters. It simply kills your night vision, which is why most overhead street lights especially in urban areas are not bluish / white in color.

I'm here because I'm researching videos about how to convert from halogen to led bulbs. After watching your video I'm not sure if I want to convert anymore. But I have an issue where my halogen bulbs are barely lasting me 90 to 120 days, and I'm getting sick and tired of the same bulb replacing routine. I understand that I drive a lot more miles per month than the average person, but this issue seems to be getting worst and even the best halogen bulbs aren't lasting. I'm a Lyft/Uber Driver here in the South West, and I can assure you the blinding effect has ridiculously increased in the last 3 years and consistently making it harder for me to do my job without having to strain my eyes "Charles Bronson" style so to avoid accidents several times during night driving, and my City is a small City compared to major cities such as Miami or Dallas where I've driven as well and the glare from oncoming traffic is just stupidly out of control on those major cities. I'm shocked that this hasn't become a National issue yet. But anyway, I like to thank you for your dedication on making such a detailed video. It helped me make a decision today.

An honest product review? Those are few and far between. I really enjoyed it! :D

Nice to see both side of installing Led light, fed up of people installing them and blinding on coming traffic. I was thinking of installing some led bulbs but this video made up my mind, I should upgrade the lights an not just the bulbs. Thank you for sharing this video. Take care. R

I have a 2017 Sonata with projector headlights. I decided to try LEDs everywhere on the car. I love the back up lights, plate lights, trunk, interior etc.. but the headlights are going back. Halogen lights just work better in halogen style housings. My leds were super bright, but had a strange focus, and no more hotspot which took away from how far they went out. I chose based off performance since the leds were definitely nicer looking.

Finally my doubts explained very well by you. No wonder after changing to LED on the reflector headlights, the lighting field and pattern totally unacceptable. I'm switching back to halogen. Tq.

Thanks sir, what a good videos, sharing the road with responsibilities. You are the man 👍👍

It’s refreshing to see people review sponsored products “honestly”. I have a 18 Crosstrek with horrible halogens and I upgraded the stocks with diode dynamics leds and even though these are considered high quality and top notch, they also redirect lights scattered everywhere. I think the issue is the reflector housing which is not meant for the led lights.

Great video. Thank you for being considerate about other drivers. I wonder why the manufacturers are making their led headlights so bright and luminous. They should have almost the same amount of lumens as halogen. Changing to led would still make sense. A nice white light + longetivity.

Can you test LED bulb in projector housing instead o reflector housing??

Love your candidness and honest opinion! Keep up the honest work!

Hello I got my low beams replaced with LEd but it's draining my battery. It's a brand new battery. Do you have any suggestions?

In snow, misty, rainy conditions?? In dry weather LED has advantage but in above conditions is it an advantage or disadvantage?

Putting correct headlight angles aside, what are your thoughts on having warm white leds instead of the cool white that you had? I noticed that the yellowish warm white lights are easier on the eyes than bluish cool white lights.

Thank you for the honest review. Living in a big city, they are a few cars who have converted to LED's & they are indeed quite blinding when they are on coming or in the rear mirrors. It is worse when one or both lights are pointing higher...

I recently put LED in my 2005 Toyota Avalon and it did the same thing. Other drivers thought I had my high beams on but what I did that helped a little to not blind drivers as much is I rotated the LED from facing side to side to up and down and it did lower it a little

I had led headlight bulbs in my old outback sport. I was getting flashed in broad daylight. Decided to switch back. Wasn’t worth the headache. Plus the lighter blue color glared really bad on wet roads and all visibility benefits went out the window.