New Pair of Koito European Spec (E-Code) Headlamps 7 Inch Round and 60/55W H4 B

Description: New Pair of Koito European Spec (E-Code) Headlamps, 7 Inch Round and 60/55W H4 Bulbs. Fits NA Miatas and other vehicles with 7" round headlamps. Quoting Daniel Stern Lighting; "The original-type headlamps are sealed beams. No matter what brand or when made, plain or halogen or "performance halogen", these are primitive and barely marginally adequate. They produce a dim, narrow smudge of poorly-focused light, very little light on the road surface, no side spill, and a great deal of upward stray light that causes backdazzle in bad weather. You can do much better than these, but you have to be picky and shop carefully because much of what's on the market is junk (though of course all of it is advertised as an "upgrade"). The very best replaceable-bulb (H4) headlamps in the 7" round size you need are made in Japan by Koito, one of the top three makers of lighting equipment for the world's automakers. These are the most efficient (greatest amount of light on the road), best focused (most useful distribution of light), best-built (sturdiest glass and metal materials, most careful build quality) lamps of their type in this size. There's a great deal of junk on the market, too. Delta, Roundeyes, Adjure, Eagle Eye, Rampage, Eaglite, Maxtel, Eurolite, Pilot, Neolite, Autopal, and dozens of other off-brand, poorly-made headlite-shaped trinkets. You're wise to steer clear of it all. The Hella lamp in this size is quite inefficient on low beam, which means inadequate, short seeing distance, and it has an obnoxious focus issue of excessive vertical distance between the low and high beam: if the lows are aimed where they should be, the highs are up in the trees, but if you put the highs dead-ahead as they ought to be, the lows are shortly in front of your front bumper. The Koito lamps do not have this irritating issue. Are the Cibie headlights sold on Amazon any good? No. The Cibie 7" and 5-3/4" round (and 200 × 142 mm rectangular) headlamps are no longer manufactured. This is the end of a slow death for those lamps that I've been watching for awhile: some years ago, I started getting reports of poor beam focus from the Cibie round H4 headlamps. Just about every such report came from someone who had bought theirs from Amazon at a suspiciously low price, by which I mean it was quite a bit lower than the manufacturer's lowest (full-containerload wholesale) price for that lamp. I never did definitively pin down what was going on, but based on more or less comparable situations I've seen with other products, it's a pretty solid assumption that someone somewhere was shunting QA/QC rejects away from their date with the scrapheap and back into circulation." https://jalopnik.com/why-most-led-headlight-upgrades-dont-really-work-an-ex-1843070472

Price: 100 USD

Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

End Time: 2024-12-17T01:10:08.000Z

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