OPT7 FluxBeam H11 LED Headlight Kit 6K Cool White (H8, H9, H16) w/Clear ARC-Lens Beam Bulbs-130W 11000LM

Edit 2/25/2016: I added photos to show the light pattern.A long review follows, so this is your fair warning.My car: 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid EX-LReason for purchase:While I have been happy with my car, for the most part, I have never been happy with the headlights' illumination of areas on the driver side, which effectively stops at the A pillar (the support bars on the sides of the windshield). I have 35% tinted windows from the dealer, but even with them down, it's hard to see things to the left side of the car at night. With the factory headlights, I can't see an unlit median on a left turn and have to take a wide left turn to avoid potentially hitting it. My main hope was that a much brighter bulb, with a potentially different light pattern, would improve visibility. I considered HID bulbs, but LEDs have a much longer life with instant turn-on at full brightness, and I've had to replace factory HID bulbs, which were very expensive at the time. HID replacement kits are no longer as expensive, and are in fact cheaper than LED kits, but their much shorter life and warm-up period are undesirable factors. Time will tell whether these LEDs have as long of a life as claimed by OPT7.Results and Performance:I was initially hesitant to buy the bulbs because they are listed as a 6500 K color temperature (called cool white, I think), with no option for a 5000 K (white) color. I have trouble with being blinded by the trendy blue headlights I have seen on oncoming cars at night, and was afraid these would be blue too. Thankfully, they are not very blue. In fact, they are a close match to the color of the factory LED daytime running lights, which is a nice effect. They appear to be brighter than my factory H11 bulbs, with a very slightly blue hint to the color. In fact, the color reminds me of my "daylight" fluorescent and LED bulbs that I use in my house, which claim to be 5000 K in color.The big benefit of the LEDs that I've noticed so far is that I can see better to the left side of my car. Where I had no light with the factory bulbs, I now have several degrees of illumination to the left of my A pillar on the driver's side. I can now see the median on a dark street when making a left turn. It's not as wide of a throw of light as I would like, but I now see the median curb in time to avoid it, and don't have to take wide left turns. The illumination arc to the right side of the car seems to be about the same as factory, but seems brighter. The forward illumination is approximately equal to the factory bulbs in distance and height, as far as I can tell, but the road immediately in front of the car seems more brightly lit.OPT7's marketing information says that they spent extra time trying to make sure they had a good focused light distribution, even if they are not the brightest. I can't say if they hit that mark for sure, but I see better with them than with factory bulbs. The one odd thing I've noticed is where the light is cut off by my projector headlights. The factory bulbs' light was cut off in a straight line at a certain height, with a slight bump at the right side. This is a standard light pattern for projectors, and is the same for my wife's 2015 Honda Accord Hybrid Touring with the factory LED headlights. With the OPT7 LEDs installed in my car, the light cut off pattern is more of a slightly wavy line. It still cuts off at the appropriate height, but the line is not straight. I'm hopeful that the wavy cut off won't adversely affect other drivers. So far, in the few weeks I've used them, nobody has flashed me with their high beams.I'm also hoping that they will pass inspection in Texas. Of all of the online material I could find, I didn't see any indication that these bulbs would result in my car failing inspection. Their color is not outside of normal factory LEDs' range, or any sort of DOT color regulations that I could find. They don't have a significantly different light pattern from factory bulbs, aside from the wavy line of the cut off, and slightly increased visibility to the left of the A pillar.My wife's car, with the factory Touring LED headlights, has been flashed several times by oncoming drivers. Her car's headlights are absolutely dazzling and even blinding when seen from a long oncoming distance, which I think was a poor design from the factory. I can't stand them when seeing them from the front, even a block away. Thankfully, my OPT7 LEDs don't seem to have that issue. The OPT7 LEDs are the almost the same color as the factory Touring LED headlights, but my projector lenses don't seem to have the same dazzling effect as the factory LEDs' projectors.One other thing I should mention is the noise of the fans on the LED heat sinks. When the car is sitting still with the headlights lights turned on, I can hear the sound of the fans both inside the car, and outside of the car. I can probably only hear them because my car is almost totally silent until the engine starts to recharge the batteries. The sound of the fans is not unpleasant to my ears, and it doesn't bother me. It is a muted hum inside the car, and a gentle high-pitched whirring sound from outside the car.Installation:I installed these bulbs in a 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid (low beams are H11, high beams are 9005/HB3). The hybrid's layout under the hood isn't the same as the standard gas model Accords found in videos on the Y-Tube, so it can be more difficult to install the bulbs. I could barely fit a single hand (large glove size) into the space between the headlight and the frame. The low beam bulbs were the only ones I could easily reach. I used a flat-head screwdriver to partially separate the factory power plug from the stock headlight bulb. I slid the screwdriver blade between the bulb's plug lock tab and the wiring harness plug to separate them enough to detach them, and then used my hand to disconnect the plug.NOTE: I found out from OPT7 support that I had to use the polarity reversal connectors that were included with the bulbs. By default, the RedLine LED driver connector plug pins were not set at the same width as those on the factory H11 bulbs, so they wouldn't plug into the factory wiring harness. I hadn't thought to use them initially, because I didn't think the polarity would be reversed, and wasn't aware that the polarity reversal plugs actually had different spacing for the pins in the connectors. I did not need to use the other included connectors, which are to be used to regulate voltage and prevent blinking of the LED bulbs in certain situations.Installation of the bulbs went smoothly after I had the polarity reversal plugs and LED driver units plugged in. When installing the bulbs, I made sure to have the black power wire facing downward under the red rear heat sink in their final locked position. That way, when the bulb was inserted and twist-locked into place, the LED domes on the aluminum frame were facing to the sides, and not up and down. The side-facing orientation was verified to be the correct orientation by OPT7 support. My Accord doesn't have any sort of dust cover over the back of the headlights and bulbs, as can be the case with some vehicles, so there was no concern about the heat sinks not fitting inside or dust intrusion into the headlight assembly if it was missing the cover.Support Experience:I initially chose OPT7 partly because they have a 2 year warranty on the bulbs, and other reviewers had been happy with the support they provided, compared to other LED kit sales companies' reviews I'd read. They don't currently have a support phone number that they answer (I had to dig a bit to find any phone number for them - 9493138890), so I contacted support by email. I thought they had sent me the wrong bulb kit. The kit labelling consisted of a white sticker (11-HL-6) on the clear plastic pouch covering the box with the bulbs, rather than an obvious model number of H11. I had to wait somewhere around a week for a email response by a human being. They had replied with an canned email within a few days of my initial contact, explaining that they were overwhelmed with support requests and that they would get back to me soon, but that didn't help me. I bought my bulbs after Christmas, and they were apparently overwhelmed by requests for support by holiday purchasers, and said they were hiring more staff to help. The delay in human response bothered me, and is the main reason for my 4/5 stars, but a follow-up canned email from their support manager promised that they would extend the return window, and provide a future-purchase discount coupon (which I have not received). When I finally received the response from support, they simply told me to use the polarity-reversal plugs included in the kit. I felt embarrassed for not trying the polarity plugs before contacting support, and then having to wait so long for them to tell me to do something I should have thought of beforehand. The polarity reversal plugs worked, and the bulbs lit up.Conclusion:Overall, I would recommend these bulbs, based on my short experience with them. Hopefully, you won't experience the delays I did with their support, or have any malfunctioning problems that some other reviewers have experienced. Thank you for reading my review, and I hope it helps you make your decision.

To start out, I recently purchased a new (to me) vehicle which had all standard halogen lighting throughout the vehicle. I purchased a 2011 Chevy Equinox with OEM projector headlights. My original thoughts of the standard halogen bulbs were not bad, but I wanted them to look better. I have had HIDs in the past on my vehicles and honestly, OPT7 turned out to be the best HIDs I had ever purchased. However, I didn't want to swap these lights with HIDs. My buddy had purchased some LED headlights from a local dealer and paid double what I paid for these. He said he really liked them and they were SUPER bright and couldn't talk high enough about them. So, I gave these a shot thinking that they must be pretty darn bright and I get them for half the cost of what he did!My initial thoughts were great, especially during the day. However, when night time came, I changed my mindset a little. I am not one who lives in a big city and does a lot of driving in the city; I drive a lot in the country and need my light for when I come across deer and what not.The things I like about these bulbs:-The construction is really phenomenal and are built pretty darn sturdy. I have a feeling that these will last forever in the housing as long as you're not extremely rough on them and honestly, in an equinox, you won't be.-They have 2 diodes per light which allows the lights to dim whenever your car uses DRL mode.-The lights came with a polarity fix which I needed for my vehicle. I followed the instructions, plugged them in initially, and didn't have any light. I then installed the polarity adapters and they lit right up.-They are bright to look at and look like a high end luxury vehicle from the front.-They come with a 2 year warranty.-They are instant on.-They will fit in my fog light housings and I will be buying a pair to install there as well.Now, with everything, there has to be some negatives right? Yes, there are:-They don't throw light as well as I had hoped. And honestly, I don't have a direct comparison from when I had my HIDs, but I'm almost thinking that my HIDs in a reflector housing threw more light. With this, I also noticed my drivers side bulb wasn't throwing nearly the same amount of light as my passenger side. I took it out, tested it and both diodes were lit. I put it back in and it must not have originally been installed properly as they both are equal now. The light output could change, but I'm not going to bank anything on it. If it does change, I will come back and let you know.-The cost; I don't think these are worth $100, but there also isn't a huge market for these things right now.Other than those negatives, I am very happy with them and would recommend them to anyone. Like I said, I will be buying another pair for my fog lights and I am hoping that these will last the life of my vehicle.EDIT: 11/19/15So I got the driver side fixed, turns out the bulb wasn't fully seated in the socket. So the projectors throw the light a little bit, but probably truly not quite as far as a standard halogen. I haven't bitten the bullet yet to buy the fogs, but I will be soon!

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