Perhaps Nissan can follow Toronto's fine example - the Maple Leafs.Shouldn't the plural form of that be Lexi? The etymology of word is from the Latin 'lexus', what the Romans called their fastest and most ornate chariots. Therfore the proper term meaning two or more must be lexi. Mazda had the same confusion with a model years ago named the 'Millenia' which except it is spelled incorrectly, is actually more than one. Should have been named the 'Millennium' which is singular. Now not so clear what to call more than one Nissan Leaf.
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If they had kept improving sealed beams optically, that would have been great. I far preferred replaceable glass to UV-degraded plastic.personally, I wish they had stuck with the old sealed beams.. that way I wasn't getting blinded by oncoming vehicles with all manner of modern headlight.
The housings are slightly different and say bmw laser lighting on them.How could you tell, were the headlights brighter or a different color?
That’s here today and called a garage …I'd be happy if they invented a reasonable cost plastic housing for the light that didnt yellow and haze in a couple years.
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Wait untill laser exited phosphor beams make it to cars.
Give me some LED’s in the 4500-4800k range with a high CRI and I’ll be happy!It's cool but I can't wait for them to go back to 3300K or 43000 halogen/HID color temperatures when the cold white LED fad finally dies. If I had to guess, it will go full circle and the warm white light will be the premium. One luxury brand is going to pull it off and it'll trickle down again. It costs more to add so much phosphor on the LED chips, so it'll probably be marketed that way.
Once the Toyota Corolla got LEDs as standard, LEDs and cold white colors aren't special anymore--no offense to Corolla owners! I think CRI and CCT will be the next thing they focus on after all the Matrix-LED stuff is perfected
I doubt they'll go full circle back to the warm hues...closer to daylight as far as color temp the better IMO. I like 3000k in my living room, not on the road.It's cool but I can't wait for them to go back to 3300K or 43000 halogen/HID color temperatures when the cold white LED fad finally dies. If I had to guess, it will go full circle and the warm white light will be the premium. One luxury brand is going to pull it off and it'll trickle down again. It costs more to add so much phosphor on the LED chips, so it'll probably be marketed that way.
Once the Toyota Corolla got LEDs as standard, LEDs and cold white colors aren't special anymore--no offense to Corolla owners! I think CRI and CCT will be the next thing they focus on after all the Matrix-LED stuff is perfected
4800k Philips Xtreme Vision HID’s were my all time favorites. Looked like pure daylight in front of the vehicle.I doubt they'll go full circle back to the warm hues...closer to daylight as far as color temp the better IMO. I like 3000k in my living room, not on the road.
Pictures????US Market ID.4's (Pro S and above) have the matrix headlight hardware but the functionality has been programmed out for our market due to the older FMVSS standard. Some of the more knowledgable owners have been trying to figure out how to code the functionality back in but I don't believe it has been figured out just yet. There is also hope since FMVSS standards now allow them that VW will add them back with an OTA update, that's a huge long shot though as VW hasn't yet had any successful OTA update in North America to date.
Interestingly enough they do have some matrix functionality as the "poor weather lights" are like fog lights but with no separate lights or housings, it somehow creates what are pretty much fog lights out of the same projector. I tested it out one night and you could see the additional lighting on the road, hopped out and couldn't tell a difference when looking at the front of the car - just looked like the low beam projector lights. Kind of neat and now I can drive around with my fog lights on even when they aren't needed without people making fun of me (j/k).
Parts cost is ~$900 each side so not too terrible.
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Any option to make them yellow or at least a warmer color temperature.
I haven't hit a lot of fog for a while but last night was pretty bad. My Accord with yellow Hella DE fogs and 5000k HID's with 50W ballasts was much better than the white LED fogs/projector headlights in the Pilot.