If anyone needs H4 headlights...

I lost another sealed beam in my '66 Falcon and remembered this thread. Called my local Toyota dealer with the part number and had them a few days later. I made a video about them. Most of it won't be news to the crowd here but there may be an installation note or two that will help someone. I changed my bulbs to LEDs to avoid adding the relays.

In reply to ddavidv :

Thank you.  I bought a set for my 240Z and I keep waffling about the extra relays and wiring and you just gave me a smart solution.  Now about those extra 2 sets I bought.....

DDavidv....   Excellent video... I have been on the fence regarding a switch from H4 bulbs to LED for my Zs...     Off I go to Amazon...

Thank you

Gordon 

If doing LED's try to find something with a 5000k spectrum rather than the more common 6-6500k, the whiter light is much better.

I missed this the first time around but just ordered a couple sets from my local Toyota dealer. $16 each picked up! Insanely good deal. I will probably forget I bought them and install them on the El Camino a few years from now.

I really appreciated this thread. I finally got around to installing the pair I ordered several months ago on my 944. It was down for a clutch replacement, so I waited until it was actually driving before installing them.

Anyway, they really are a steal. I had some Hella Euro H4 conversions on my NA Miata which had a similar transformation, but it was long enough ago that I can't really say for sure that they were better. This particular 944 came with some sort of dual projector LED conversion lamp, which not only looked really out of place on the car but also had a very poor beam pattern. The overall assembly was aimed upwards (probably to give the appearance of increased visibility over stock units to those who don't know to adjust headlights), as well as there being a gap between the low and high beam patterns. So even when adjusted to not be a dick, they didn't do that may for visibility. As I received the car, the only thing the high beams were good for was looking for birds in the tree tops...

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And a mini rant about headlight technologies: New cars may have brighter headlights with sharper beam cutoffs, but I changed both of these headlight assemblies in 20 minutes. On the 20 year old VWs I like, changing a bulb is doable in about that time, with similar parts availability, even if the aerodynamic light housings are more difficult to change. But new cars? Impossible. My friend said a new LED headlight assembly for a late model Corrolla was over $700 the other day, which is absolutely preposterous. These LED modules are not immune from failure, especially since they also contain the driver electronics and have conflicting heat management and weather sealing requirements. If you're on a road trip and the LED driver in your 10 year old car finally fails, are you even going to be able to get a replacement? Sure, there are opportunities for aftermarket rebuilds of these otherwise non-serviceable modules, but that's not something that you're going to be able to handle far away from home. A car being totaled because of a headlight burning out used to be a joke, but the future will be here soon.

I just bought this bullet on some. Hope they show up. Ranchero could get use them and probably the 4 light 62 Galaxie.

They won't fit the Galaxie. Those lights are a smaller diameter.

The drop in LED bulbs from Hikari on amazon were an amazing upgrade to these H4 lights.  I had gone to glass Hella's that the Jeep guy websites always have available cheap but the incandescent bulbs were meh (still an upgrade over sealed beams).  I find on a daily that they fail in about the same amount of time that the standard ones do, but the light output is much better.  The Hikari bulbs are able to rotate so you can fix many of the cut off issues others have.  YMMV

MiniDave said:

Those are the Toyota lights we've been discussing......left one has an LED bulb, right one has an H4 bulb for comparison.

Just saw this thread come back up, I meant what model LED "bulbs"

I used (I think) Sylvania bulbs from Amazon. Reading the reviews of the generic China ones it seemed like most had a pretty high failure rate.