Old and Dull VS New Brightness Halogen or LED Lights for Car Truck SUV

Hey, have you ever been driving behind somebody in either the snow, the fog, or even some rain and you notice that, maybe, you have a little bit of a hard time seeing them? Well, it might be because of the halogen lights.

Hey, friends. It's Len here from 1A Auto. Today, I want to talk to you about some of the differences between halogen lamps and LED lamps. Let's get into it. To start that, let's turn off some lights.

Okay. So, we all know exactly what a halogen bulb looks like inside a tail lamp. It's not too hard to imagine, because well, you drive behind them pretty much every day. Most modern vehicles are gonna come with halogen bulbs inside of the tail lamp assemblies, and it's gonna be a bulb just like this with a single filament inside of it, or even a dual if it works as a brake light as well. And it's essentially gonna just light up that filament a little bit. And then the reflection from the lens on the inside is gonna be what disperses the light and illuminates it so everybody can see what's going on. As you can tell, just by looking at this lamp, it's not the brightest. And of course, it's pretty much just focused in one little area here. So, if you're driving down the road, and maybe it's a little foggy, snowy, or whatever it was like I said before, maybe you're not gonna be able to see this little itty bitty light right here. We've all been there too, haven't we?

So, now let's have a look at one of our quality 1A Auto tail lamps here. As you can tell, we have a whole bunch of LEDs inside here. LED, essentially, stands for "light-emitting diodes." Each one of these is emitting light. And, as you can tell, it covers a much bigger surface area. So, of course, you're gonna have much better view. And, in all honesty, the light that's gonna be coming out of this is gonna be much brighter than the light that's coming out of the little halogen bulb that's over there. So, real quick, let's have a look at how much light is getting emitted out back behind us.

All right. So, here I am standing behind our nice quality LED lens. As you can tell, you can see me and, in all honesty, I'm probably, I don't know 7, 10 feet away from that LED lamp. So, you're gonna be able to see that from a pretty good distance. I'm sure I could see it from way back there. But with that said, let's move along over to the passenger's side where we have the regular halogen bulb in there. And well, I don't know if it was dark out here, you wouldn't even be able to see me, in all honesty. Okay. Let's step this up a notch and take a step on that brake pedal.

So, a couple of things that you probably noticed was the LED over here was so much brighter than the halogen over there. Isn't that true? It's a much bigger surface area, so you've got twice the amount of surface that you're gonna be able to see, especially if you're in inclement weather such as snow or fog or anything the like. With that said, you might have also noticed that the LED lamp itself turned on much faster than the halogen bulb over there, which of course, would increase the safety, especially in a panic stop situation where maybe the vehicle in front of you is coming to a stop. And as soon as they step on that brake pedal, this one right here is gonna spark right up and it's gonna say, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down, pal." That one over there is gonna go, "Whoa, slow down."

Okay, friends. So, hopefully, you've got a clear view of what I'm talking about here. We have our halogen side here. Of course, it looks decent. This is the model that came with the particular vehicle. But, in all honesty, like I said before, it's not the brightest. It's, kind of, inefficient and in all actuality, it's, kind of, antiquated technology. Did it serve its purpose for the time? Of course, it did. But nowadays, we have more advanced lighting, something that's gonna make you more visible to other drivers around you. So, take a look at this right here. I can look in there, I can see the filament and I can even see the numbers on the bulb. So, obviously, it's not the brightest that it should be. If I was to move over here, we're looking at this LED lens right here. You can see we have a whole bunch more LEDs inside there. So, of course, that's gonna increase the brightness. If you look across the whole lamp assembly here, you're gonna see we have a whole bunch of lights coming all the way down. And of course, that increases the surface area of lighting. The more surface area for lighting and the brighter the lighting, the more safe you're gonna be overall.

And, of course, we're not just gonna talk about the brightness of the LEDs because yeah, they're way brighter than the halogens, but let's just look at this lamp assembly. Well, aside from this right here, you can tell that it really dresses up the truck a lot. I think it gives it a little bit more appeal, but, of course, that's up to you. And you do you, boo boo. And of course, if you didn't wanna change the look of your vehicle, maybe you liked the original tail lamp assemblies, maybe you just didn't wanna go with something that looks like this, you can, of course, try to replace those halogen bulbs with a single LED bulb. It will increase the brightness, but of course, it won't increase the surface area of the lighting itself.

Okay. Friends, I hope you liked the video. Hopefully, you liked what I did with the tail lamp over here and I wanna get to work on replacing the one over on the other side. With that said, if you liked the video, smash on the like button for me because it would mean the world. While you're at it, why don't you go ahead and subscribe? Ring the bell, that way that you can be kept up with all of our latest content. Thanks.