I did the LED headlight conversion, and both sides of this debate are correct. The LED bulb is brighter and pulls less watts than stock bulb, BUT the reflector housing must not be designed to focus the LED light in the same manor as stock. When looking at the LED headlight on, DAY or NIGHT, it's bright but NO focused beam. At NIGHT the LED headlight bulb will NOT have a directed beam of light out in front of you at all, its USELESS. At night if you would just hold the LED bulb in your hand and power it up, you get the same amount of light out in front of you....... NOTHING.

The LED headlight bulb definitely has a much whiter light compared to stock bulb, so it looks COOL!!!

Here is what I do......... depending on my riding plans..... if I'm riding during the daylight I have the LED bulbs installed, if I'm riding at night I switch the bulbs back to stock so I can see where I'm going. I can switch both bulbs back and forth in less than a minute. I have 2 old prescription bottles that both the LED and Stock bulbs fit into and just switch them out, and carry the non used bulb in them in my front storage compartment.


In the picture below, the 80 watt LED is on the left, all the light is just scattered, on the right stock bulb, you can see on the wall how the reflector housing directs the light out in front of you in a focused beam of light.

 

I agree completely. We do 75% of our riding at night. I kept the stock bulbs for night driving and just added a light bar to "flood" the trail with light...

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That's perfect exactly what I needed to know. Appreciate it, I won't be doin that if the lights are that bad. My buddy runs hids they seem very bright but I don't want to have converter boxes down at the the headlight so unless somebody else found led that puts its light out similar to stock and focuses better I'll probability be sticking with with stockers

 

I haven’t tried these but was considering getting them. Has anyone tried them out?

https://atv.polaris.com/en-us/shop/accessories/lights/2876464/

 

I did the Dylan Hayes LED pod installation. They are brighter than my light bar and installation was plug and play. Have had them under water and they didnt care at all. Hes on Facebook a lot but im not sure if hes on here

 

I just went out to look at the Dylan Hayes LED pods. Look pretty nice. Looks like there would be no ability to aim so are they a pretty dead on aim out of the box? Also are they pretty much spots vs any flood - good mix? Just want to make sure it would be a good overall solution before buying. I have tried numerous LED bulbs and no go on any of them working well with the stock housing reflector. Same as what everyone else is saying - great bright white light but not even close to being usable for night riding. Thanks!


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