With winter coming.... anyone tried swapping headlight bulbs from LED to HID (for heat to melt ice/snow)?

[4DRS4MRWHRS]

Not sure you realize the difference between LEDs and HIDs. You're not putting HIDs in these housings without doing a full retrofit (you ever open up housings before?), and that's gonna look all sorts of goofy with the semi-circle shape of the reflector bowls.

It sounds like you think there's a bulb in these things, and there isn't.

You're trying to swap a couple of these mounted in there horizontally...

With these....

I have but I've never opened up ones that had literal led chips only in them. You're right I figured they were like aftermarket led lights where the chips were on a bulb style insert. Well that sucks cause it's hard to see when they get covered and I wasn't even in a heavy storm. Thanks for the insight I'll have to find another way.

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[jonwithanelcamino]

Can you wire up a light bar or similar lights on the bumper and flip them on when your headlights ice up? Or would those ice up too?

 

[Lifeliberty]

Can you wire up a light bar or similar lights on the bumper and flip them on when your headlights ice up? Or would those ice up too?

Halogens would be fine, leds dont generate much heat. So it would work if you went old school

 

[Gabby]

I switch out to old school sealed beams ever winter, right about the time I replace my regular blinker fluid with the synthetic antifreeze type.

 

[jonwithanelcamino]

Halogens would be fine, leds dont generate much heat. So it would work if you went old school

Some Hellas with yellow smiley face covers

 

[Fordtorino93]

Have you tried a ceramic coating maybe right before the first snow storm? I haven't had an issue yet to the point I couldn't see anymore so I haven't bothered to try it.

 

[tripmcl]

Rain X helps but my front sensor yells at me for 6 months.

 

[harpo]

With winter coming has anyone swapped their headlight LED's to HID's? With my headlights freezing up due to the lack of heat last winter I'm trying to get a head start to see if anyone makes a HID kit or installed HID's in their signature lights?!

In the right conditions I had the same thing happen.

By the time it got dark I thought something was wrong and the headlights weren't coming on...

I checked this thread hoping someone may have a simple solution.

 

[7sKnuckledragger]

An off road SUV built in Michigan has issues illuminating the road on winter nights? That’s silly

 

[brkdncr]

I would try to retrofit rear window defrosters (and maybe some of that repair paint) before switching away from the stock lights.

 

[Mlarv]

I had an FJ Cruiser that the lights froze over as well as the windshield wipers when I driving from MI back to OH. I had to pull over ever 30 minutes to clean them.

I have not had this happen on my Bronco, but now I live in TN so I hope not to see that much cold weather.

I did a quick google search and found a few different companies that make a film or invisible wires to defrost them, but they have to be done during MFG.

On my FJ I used a good wax on the lens every few months. It seemed to help.

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