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I have 3 years and over 80,000 miles on the Daymaker in my Sporty and have no fogging. I had a 2001 Grand Cherokee and the lenses were fogged to the point where it would not pass inspection. Not sure if it's the type of plastic or if it's more the effect of UV light that degrades it.
And one thing to consider with the LED H4 bulbs is the "light" is not coming from the same location as the standard bulb so the optics are off. It puts out more light than the standard bulb but it is being spread out more so there is less where you need it than a complete LED headlight.
And one thing to consider with the LED H4 bulbs is the "light" is not coming from the same location as the standard bulb so the optics are off. It puts out more light than the standard bulb but it is being spread out more so there is less where you need it than a complete LED headlight.
According to all the pictures I've seen of people putting up to show before and after between their stock halogen and the new 'full LED headlight' and just the bulb I use, I'm not seeing any difference. My bulb lights up the road and the sides of the road beautifully. The high beam actually all it does is light the left side of the road a little better (because of the lane space that's always there, to help see things on that side of the road better). Compared to a nice (overpriced) PIAA halogen bulb I tried, you couldn't pay me enough to go back to a halogen. Everything depends on the design of the reflector. The reflector on my '09 FXD sucked, even with the LED bulb...it had light all over the place, it was still lit better, but it still wasn't optimal. The reflector on this '98 FXD I now have, is a million times better than the one on the '09. I have no idea why, only the engineers with the math skills to figure that crap out could know, but as far as I'm concerned, somewhere between '98 and '09 they fixed what wasn't broke, heh.
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Are the two smaller white lights on the bottom the CD lights? How difficult was it to install/wire up those bottom lights?
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I've got the Sunpie amazon.com on mine, for about 2 years. It's not foggy, hit terrible rain storms couple times and is clear as a bell even after cleaning bugs 3-4 times yearly. WAY brighter than stock and cars don't flash me, so I assume I'm not blinding them.
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Thanks for this thread Shellback. Been wondering the same thing. Love my Crossbones but night riding in it with the small headlight is just treacherous 
Keep wondering about putting something new in but just haven't wanted to drop that amount of money for the Daymaker or something similar without first hand accounts and reviews.
Keep wondering about putting something new in but just haven't wanted to drop that amount of money for the Daymaker or something similar without first hand accounts and reviews.
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What I have here are CD headlight and Ringz directional. The lights you are questioning are spots I picked up from a vendor here on the forum. DK Customs.
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First, don't spend the money on the whole bulb (the enclosed thing that sits in the headlight bucket). *ALL* of tham that I have read up on so far are *plastic*. That won't last long with bugs, sand, rain, etc before the light will have a hard time peeking through it to light the road, not to mention plastic lens lights *ALL* do that nasty-looking fog-like thing, but it's not really foggy, it's like the lens *became* fog and it's permanent..
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