Do you drive with your halos on? Wondering about halo longevity...?

[BowtieBelle]

I love the way my car looks with her halo lights on, and I almost always turn them on instead of the DRLs when I'm driving. Oddly enough, I also have noticed I seem to get more compliments on the car when I've got the halos on.

What I'm WONDERING, as I get closer to being out of the bumper-to-bumper warranty time frame, is how long those halos will last before LED's start going out, or they start to dim. I know they are crazy expensive to replace, and I'm not sure if you can just break them down and replace a single LED or three...

Anyone else drive with their halos on most of the time like me? Has anyone here had any issues with them dimming or ceasing to work properly?

[daveagogo1]

I never drive with my drls. Mine are blacked out and it isn't smart to run them. All the heat ia trapped in. So i run halos always. DD 17 months zero issues.

[Rocks RS]

I run my HALO's unless I am using headlights. I love the looks too.

My car has 94,500 and it hits 3 years on 6/19.

[BowtieBelle]

Originally Posted by Rocks RS

I run my HALO's unless I am using headlights. I love the looks too.

My car has 94,500 and it hits 3 years on 6/19.

Awesome. I put almost 30k on in my first year and am feeling awfully guilty about it-- but I really think I need to let that go and just drive it and enjoy it. It's just hard to not care about racking up miles...

[Rockin the BlueSS]

i have the halos hard wire to run any time the car is on. 50K slow freeway traffic miles later no problems.... knock on wood

[Parag]

Leds last somewhere like a million hours. You're good

[dwinva]

I don't have exact numbers, but LED's are supposed to last between 25 and 50 times longer than a normal long life bulb. (But what does "long life" really mean?)

[h2oplay]

LED's have a long life, they can be replaced although not simple.....

I run mine always, I replaced mine with the JDP colorshift kit last month.

[Wantconvertible]

Turn Halos on each time I get in ,they have a, DAM that's nice look to them

[AZCamaroFan]

isn't it hard and expensive to change them though?

[menendez1293]

I didnt know the halos in the RS package were LEDs.

Since they are HIDs I thought they were made from xenon gas and that what made them brigheter compared to the tungsten-felement bulbs.

[Rockin the BlueSS]

Originally Posted by Parag

Leds last somewhere like a million hours. You're good

well this is kinda true... it is based on how the led circuit is designed. LEDs can last a million hours if the voltage is on the low side of the design limit. The interesting thing about them is that the higher the voltage the brighter they get to a certain extent.

You can have a LED on the low side of the power and it will last hundreds of thousands of hours, or take the same leds and apply higher voltage and it will be brighter but it could only last one hour. Then you get into pulsing, take the same power that only lets the LED last and hour then run it for 0.001 second on and 0.001 second off and you can double that hour

So it varies greatly on how the circuit is designed, however i do not think we have a problem in the halos. like i said i have run mine on all the time for a long time now.

[Worgnakh]

Originally Posted by Rocks RS

I run my HALO's unless I am using headlights. I love the looks too.

My car has 94,500 and it hits 3 years on 6/19.

Almost 100K miles in 3 years?

[BowtieBelle]

Originally Posted by AZCamaroFan

isn't it hard and expensive to change them though?

This.

Originally Posted by menendez1293

I didnt know the halos in the RS package were LEDs.

Since they are HIDs I thought they were made from xenon gas and that what made them brigheter compared to the tungsten-felement bulbs.

The headlamps themselves are HID's. The halo's around the headlamps are LED's with a cover over them that blurs them together, producing the look we love

Originally Posted by Rockin the BlueSS

well this is kinda true... it is based on how the led circuit is designed. LEDs can last a million hours if the voltage is on the low side of the design limit. The interesting thing about them is that the higher the voltage the brighter they get to a certain extent.

You can have a LED on the low side of the power and it will last hundreds of thousands of hours, or take the same leds and apply higher voltage and it will be brighter but it could only last one hour. Then you get into pulsing, take the same power that only lets the LED last and hour then run it for 0.001 second on and 0.001 second off and you can double that hour

So it varies greatly on how the circuit is designed, however i do not think we have a problem in the halos. like i said i have run mine on all the time for a long time now.