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Best headlight upgrade
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HID conversions are wrongly illegal (well an MOT failure at least), but the reason they're illegal is because too many people install them incorrectly and dangerously. If you go down the HID route, you must ensure the light is shielded correctly or is part of a projector. Otherwise the light is thrown out everywhere and blinds oncoming motorists.
LED lighting is different. Depends which lamp you pick.
Even with projector lights, even though the beam cut off will be better, and probably not annoy oncoming car drivers, the beam pattern will still be way off and will vary between cars.... it could lead to driver fatigue, distraction or dead spots in the beam pattern.
The light source from a HID bulb is in a different location within the bulb than from a Halogen burner and as the beam relies upon reflection, a 1mm difference on the source could have several meters of difference on the road.0
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