10,000 Lumen LED Headlights vs 16,000 #LED Headlights vs Silverstar Ultra Halogens - Review

To preface this #BlogPost style review which will mainly be dealing with my most recent upgrade from 10,000 lumen LED headlights to 16,000 lumen LED headlights, I’m going to link my previous review. It was a comparison strictly between the Silverstar Ultras and 10,000 lumen LED headlights.
[Silverstar Ultras vs 10,000 lumen LED headlights]
(https://www.carthrottle.com/post/a5oy44x/)

10,000 lumens vs 16,000 lumens review

Being that I went from Silverstar Ultras to 10,000 lumen headlights only a few short months ago yet am upgrading again, some of you may be wondering if the 10,000s were somehow worse than the halogens. I can assure you that they were not. They were great, like having 300 horsepower in a vehicle that comes stock with 200. However, who doesn’t want 400 HP instead?

When I ordered these, I selected a 6,000K bright white colour like all the other white lights on my vehicle. My bulb socket style is H13, meaning that it is dual filament with both high and low beams built into each bulb. For the comparison photo, neither headlight was readjusted in anyway in order to give an accurate representation of each bulb.

All of the positive things that I had to say about the 10,000 lumen bulbs are amplified for this set. The distance is even farther and wider, while the cutoff is much sharper. After driving through last Winter with conditions below -40°, I can also assure that the 10,000 lumen bulbs will melt the snow off of the headlight housings in a few brief minutes. This was a worry for many living in frigid climates in previous reviews, so I thought it best to address this now. Being that these bulbs are brighter and take up more wattage, they will warm up to melt snow and ice even quicker.

This was a photo taken with my phone while driving, so it may not be the best but I believe it conveys the size of the light beams adequately.

As I stated earlier, the low beam cutoff is much sharper than my previous LEDs or the Silverstar Ultras. As can be seen in the top photo, the light cutoff is in line with the headlight housings after being adjusted. On high beam, the light is everywhere. The high beam has a very tall ceiling, much higher than I’ve seen on other high beams. Being that they are designed for use only when other vehicles are not around, this is a benefit.

Installed & Adjusted

After some adjusting, they look much better than the 10,000 lumen bulbs. This photo is of the low beams, which are the same bulbs at only 8,000 lumens output, plus the 4,000 lumen LED driving lights and 2,000 lumen LED switchback parking lights. The daytime running lights also use the headlights bulbs but at 80% of low beam, which is 6,400 lumens. I now have a current grand total of 22,000 lumens of white light on the front end of the #Focus, which will be bumped up to 30,000 total lumens when the 12,000 lumen driving lights come in. Keep an eye out for that review, which should be out in the next few weeks.

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