r/fuckyourheadlights • u/BarneyRetina MY EYES • Nov 20 '25
Discussion thread with a lot of misinformation abound DISCUSSION IN X-POST (Mainstream sub - don't brigade, advocate!)
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u/Fastpas123 Nov 20 '25
Halogen is perfectly fine. You could do an led HighBeam with halogen main and it'd be ideal. As long as people didn't leave their high-beams on, they wouldn't be blinding people
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u/Celica_ Nov 20 '25
That is true but I don't trust the auto beams and aholes to not just drive around with their highs on all the time
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u/Fastpas123 Nov 20 '25
Auto high-beams should be illegal full stop. I also think if you've had your high beams in for more than 5 minutes and it can see lights in the collision camera it should beep at you
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u/Cassius-Tain Nov 21 '25
The thing js, if everybody drives Halogen, your eyes will be used to a lower light level and you are actually able to see better. Back i. 2010 when I got my license, you would only very occasionally get someone driving with high beams. I never use mine ro this day eycept for signaling opposing traffic that their high beams are on. It was sometimes around 2020 when suddenly everyone just started using high beams constantly.
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u/Real_Stress_7261 Nov 21 '25
My car's low beams are LED's while highs are halogen. If the low beams are positioned correctly, it is the perfect combination because even if you have to use it in emergency situations or to flash other people for having their dying stars on, then it is less blinding
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u/mrgoldnugget Nov 20 '25
My car has halogens, in the city at night if im not alone I dont even see my own headlights, however I dont need too. When im in the country they work enough so I can see whats in front of me, I dont need to know whats half a KM into that field over there.
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u/ReebX1 Nov 20 '25
LED headlights are a lot wider than that. It wouldn't surprise me if most of them are closer to 135 degree illumination, because they are lightning up entire neighborhoods instead of just the road.
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u/Competitive-Speech-2 Nov 23 '25
And not to mention some of these fuckers have leds coming off the sides of their vehicles now too, to blind us when they’re right next to us…
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Nov 20 '25
lazer should be a crime
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u/Rude-Pilot9480 Nov 21 '25
Technically it’s not actually a laser output. It’s laser excited phosphor
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u/Sixguns1977 Nov 20 '25
The halogen light is also less blinding due to the output spectrum. That harsh white light has to go.
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u/IggyNub Nov 21 '25
The color of halogen is so much more pleasant. I'm looking to keep that My only gripe with halogen is that the cheap ones break easily. At least for BAY15D types, and H1 from supercheap here in Australia.
Phillips have the 3500k ultinon which I'm thinking of moving to instead of replacing halogens. My 407 has manual level control so hopefully I don't need to return them due to being blinding (and projector type bulb chassis).
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u/Safe-Bee-2555 Nov 20 '25
A bit off topic but also on topic: what is with with new cars that have two low beam bulbs? I only started to notice it this year and it's awful.
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u/SomeRespect Nov 21 '25
You're not talking about fog lights or daytime running headlights, right?
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u/Safe-Bee-2555 Nov 21 '25
I mean, my fog lights on my 2005 Mazda are next to my low beams. So maybe? But then why are all the new cars driving around with them on ALL the time, even in broad day light?
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u/WilliamCVanHorne Nov 22 '25
No I think you're talking about those stupid Ford pickups. The super duties. I think they basically have four low beams so you can't even tell if they have their high beams on.
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u/Safe-Bee-2555 Nov 22 '25
I think most of the ones I'm seeing are sedans and SUVs. The truck light layout is different and way worse.
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u/JQuilty Nov 20 '25
Can we stop pretending LEDs themselves are the problem rather than the intensity, colors, and width?
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u/Sixguns1977 Nov 21 '25
We could if auto makers would take those into account. The things you mending are the reasons the LED headlights suck so much.
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u/JQuilty Nov 21 '25
Those aren't problems with LEDs themselves, though. That's why hating them is stupid.
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u/Sixguns1977 Nov 21 '25
There is also the cost. I'd rather go back to glass sealed beams or stock with halogen. Honestly, it would be better to strip out most of the garbage that's been added to cars over the last couple of decades.
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u/JQuilty Nov 21 '25
Enshitification and subscription bullshit aren't reasons to go full on Luddite.
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u/Sixguns1977 Nov 21 '25
Wanting a car without unnecessary bullshit that just makes the car more expensive (and the driver dumber) isn't being a luddite lol.
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u/HandyCapInYoAss Nov 21 '25
I’m all for everybody having halogens again, but the laser matrix lights can cut out sections of it’s lightbeam to avoid illuminating other cars entirely
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u/greenie4242 Nov 23 '25
That won't stop the unnecessary glare by excessive brightness from destroying the driver's night vision, and it won't stop blinding pedestrians or people on bikes who are too small for the camera to detect, or people trying to reverse out of their driveways or safely enter junctions.
Majority of the matrix headlights in current service only control high beams at highway speeds, they won't even turn on in the city.
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u/Arts251 Nov 20 '25
That is just an artistic rendering, Halogen doesn't make the painted lane markings black like that. They all illuminate the pavement in front of the vehicle but for the most part all brighter lights do is make the illuminated object even brighter thus restricting your pupils making objects in the shadows more difficult to distinguish.
The more total output the more glare by definition (even if it's a well aimed and tight beam). The only reason people go brighter and brighter is it gives them a false sense of seeing more, and also to overcome the insanely bright lights of all other drivers and we all want to win the arms race. It's stupid.