Halogens here. Sylvania brand low, Wagner hi, Sylvania H3 fog bulbs work well. Discontinued GE's were good too.
A bright traditional orange-yellow-white (warm) white output.
Bluish light or super led harshly being cast onto the road is hard on my eyes but they are ok if you like them.
Theory- condensation eventually may cause beam reflectors to gradually turn black, causing dimming, and look bad.
Although rarely used, replaced both working high beams because both of the reflectors were black looking like that.
Color-Prefer warm white color in home and car. Using higher spectrum for special lighting needs.
Color led for on/off item power in car, warm white led house lighting.
Had a low beam glass lens fall right off once. Was a beam abandoned on my work bench. Surprisingly a name brand.
Could seal it back on with rtv. Noted seal design was changed on newer product.
My early 79 Cobra had conventional (at the time) tungsten headlights when i bought it.
Did a lot of night work commute driving. Sold on the tech, promptly upgraded to GE halogens 1980 or so.
The graphic display headlight led stayed 1/2 lit going from conventional to halogen. Read is was due to a resistance change.
Much worse, headlights started failing almost every 6 months. First one, then the other. Had a whole milk crate of them.
Years later by chance and a hunch found a badly failing butt wiring splice from a dealer collision ds apron repair.
After close inspection of the main harness tape, found the problem two feet back from the radiator support.
Think i was repairing the washer fluid pump pigtail or something.
Did a new and better splice. Mystery solved. No more short life from headlights to this day and the graphic display red led went out.
Was not the 79 Pace Car the first Mustang to have halogen as std equipment?
https://corporate.ford.com/articles/...g-history.html
Would like to try out a headlight dual relay electrical update sometime.
Would prob lose the red led headlight out feature of the graphic warning display, but trade off appears to be of greater usefulness, coolness.
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