Gen 2 LED headlight housing retrofit

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hyap463

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Hey All

I have a 2019 Leaf and love everything about it except i could use brighter lights for the dark county roads full of pickup trucks with those drop 10000lm LED bulbs :evil:

Anyone know if the factory LED headlight assemblies from the SV Techpackage or SL will plug in and work? I am not talking about putting in H11 or H7 (rest of world) based LED retrofit bulbs

I can’t find it anymore but I found a post on Reddit where someone successfully did this and the only gotcha is that the DRLs don’t work which is fine by me as long as low and high beams work!

Thanks!
 
Looks like someone has done it

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/juuggd/2018_and_up_headlamp_upgrade_to_led_lighting/i23o3ic/?context=3

These are the part numbers
26060-5SA5B
26010-5SA5B

Now it's keeping my eyes open for nice used ones from eBay!
 
What's wrong with good retrofit bulbs? I'm not talking about the cheap Amazon $40 garbage, but proper ones like GTR Lightning, Morimotos, or SL1s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-s4Eg7cyw
 
From my research even the best ones are at most slightly brighter than halogens in a Projector housing especially since we can use modified H9 bulbs in the H11 projector.

I decided to go with an HID kit for now, hopefully the glare or extra foreground light are contained if not, I’ll stick w the high perf >H11 bulbs or modified H9 while I look for used LED assemblies
 
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