I ordered one of these for my 2011 Suzuki SX4 sedan. Finally found some time today to swap halogens with new LEDs. Current pair of halogens are Philips H4 90/100w and they are pretty good. I wanted to switch to LEDs primarily to lower power consumption, Headlamps will run cool and white headlamps looks neat! This page will serve me as a reference in future if I ever go back to halogens or need to replace these LEDs.






Installation Issues:
These LED headlamps are designed to be simple plug and play units, however, while installing, I could not get them attached to the bulb receptacle. Rubber/Silicone boots which provide dust and water protection to the headlamp interior seems to have an issue and needed some work to get them to accept these LEDs. The modifications I made to the boots does not compromise its dust and water resistance and they can absolutely work again with halogen bulbs!
The LED lamp needed to be installed a little differently by first removing the notched metallic collar , fixing the collar to the headlamp bulb receptacle, securing it with the wire clip, sliding on the protective rubber boots and then inserting the LED unit and twisting it into a locked position.

The portion of the rubber boot which goes around the neck/stem of the bulb was interfering with the locking of LED bulb and I had to trim about 2 mm of its length.


I also needed to remove four protrusions on the back of boot. They were interfering with the complete insertion of LED bulb and getting in the way of heatsink.


I did a mock assembly on my desk before heading out to the car




Now, need to repeat these steps in the car.













Comparison Test (Halogen Vs LEDs).
Wall distance = 13 feet.
Verdict:
100watts halogen definitely looks a shade brighter and more focused. I still have to do real world test and night time drives to get to a fair conclusion.
I will post updates later.
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