Hot headlights
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Hot headlights
I have a 04 G35 coupe brembo package with everything stock/OEM in and out of the headlights. Is it normal that they are very hot to the touch after 30min. of driving? It does not have the projectors however it does have OEM HIDs. Could that be one of the reasons why our headlights turn yellowish or foggy?
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Right...I believe the design of the headlights were flawed since high/low beam, fogs, signals, parking lights are all in one housing. I had all the lights on the other day and drove for only 30min. touched the headlights by accident and it nearly burned my hands. I am thinking if anyone else has experience this and is it normal?
Anyone tried switching the fogs nor other lights to LED bulbs? From my understandings, the HID and LED produces less heat.
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They should be around 115-120 F on the lens (in the dark, not with mid-day summer sun) if you shoot it with an IR heat scanner, pretty normal for every vehicle on the road not using newer style lighting. Nothing wrong with a combination lamp cluster either, if there was a design flaw it would only be how inaccessible some of the lamps can be.
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Since we are talking about LEDs. Has anyone tried out the LED bulbs that does not require resistors? I believe it will help with temperature and the brightness is higher, in addition each blink is sharper. If any one has tried them out please do share. I am very interested in switching them out. Please see the Amazon links that I found below.
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