12-06-2020, 08:05 AM
(12-06-2020, 07:31 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: I had a bad experience trying a LED on my 2013 and 2014 and went back to the H4 .
Unless you change the lens you could be disappointed in just changing the bulbs.
Sometimes mom and pop bike shop are not all that great , mom and pop diners might be a better shot.
This is true. If you replace just the bulb with an LED H4 bulb, and not the entire housing, you will not have the same beam pattern. The LED bulb used in a halogen reflector will not produce a uniform light distribution. There will be bright spots and dark areas. However, (IMHO) the overall increase in light, and the improved color temperature, justify the trade-off. You can achieve a better result by using LED bulbs which allow you to adjust the beam, like HIKARI H4 bulbs sold by Amazon, but the resulting pattern is never perfect.
On the other hand, our Hondas and most older motorcycles use standard 7 or 5.75 inch round headlights, or a rectangular light, and it is easy to simply drop in a complete LED headlight. The only bike I have trouble doing this with is my Royal Enfield Bullet, which uses an odd conical housing to hold the headlight inside the bucket. The housing is too shallow for the cooling fins on an LED headlight, but I am in the process of cutting away enough of a spare inner housing with a Dremmel tool to make it fit.