If you shopped the aftermarket parts market for awhile then you know that there's all kinds of half-baked lighting upgrades, especially when it comes to anything led. From extra ballasts to retrofitted wanna-be projectors to gimmicky innefectual illumination patterns, there's all kinds of junk you can stick in or around your headlights that won't make things any better. Not so with these lamps from Sylvania. These are the best automotive led lamp retro I have ever used.
The feature a design where no llight is emitted from the end of the lamp. This is very clever for two reasons. First, it leaves room for a large heat diffuser. LEDs do not produce near as much heat as incandescents but they must be kept cooler. If the LED becomes too hot it will fail. Recall that many early LED bulbs could not be placed inside of closed lamp housings? This is why.
The other reason is it helps create a more balanced light pattern. LEDs emit highly directed light. Meaning that they tend to be blindingly bright from a few angels and rather dim from all others. Usually, to mitigate this, LED lamp designers place many rows of low intensity LEDs all over the housing including on the end. Usually this works ok, especially if the lamp is behind a heavily fogged diffuser. But instead, this lamp shines all of its light backwards towards the light housing's reflector. It does this by mounting the LEDs on the angled supports of the heat diffuser tower. And it works brilliantly! When viewing the lamp illuminated inside the housing, you get an almost perfectly uniform presentation of light.
Aside from this clever design, the lamps are very solidly built. They come with a lifetime warranty. Sylvania is really standing behind this product. I cannot recommend them enough.
| Manufacturer | SYLVANIA |
|---|---|
| Brand | SYLVANIA |
| Model | 4114LED.BP2 |
| Item Weight | 1.12 ounces |
| Country of Origin | Italy |
| Item model number | 4114LED.BP2 |
| Exterior | Machined |
| Manufacturer Part Number | 4114LED.BP2 |
| Position | Right |
| Special Features | Base W2 5x16d, Voltage 12V, Wattage 1.7 |
| Mirror Lighting Type | automotive-exterior-back-up-light-bulbs, automotive-exterior-turn-signal-light-bulbs |
