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Personally I think the light is worse. Also I have had problems with them icing up not from headlight washers (those dont work in -30F) but from the general crap that comes off the road.
What are you using for the headlight washer fluid? The junk you get at parts stores/dealerships use the minimal amount of methanol they can get away with (washer fluid is just a mixture of water and methanol). Pure methanol has a freezing point of -143F (but it is trivial to calculate the percentage needed to get a freezing point of say, -60F. I mixed my own.
The combination of headlight washers, and headlight wipers worked fine for me.
shouldn't take to much to get snow off the headlights, long as it's able to get the lamp above the freezing point...the hotter the better obviously, until it starts to affect the housing.
I hate the blue LED's they are obnoxious and look retarded. Oh and cops looooove pulling them over
That makes zero sense and has nothing to do with this thread. LED headlights (the topic of this thread) are LED based replacements for halogen or xenon headlights. This is a relatively new technology being used on high end cars at this time but will likely become more mainstream just as HID/Xenon based lighting has over the years. If you're talking about the LED's used for aesthetic or styling purposes rather than an actual road lighting element then you're talking about the wrong thing.
Last edited by iTsLiKeAnEgG; 08-22-2012 at 09:35 AM..
Unless you are in a really cold environment, shouldn't the heat from the engine be sufficient enough to melt the snow/ice?
I'm not so sure about that. My windshield had no trouble icing up with the heat on inside the car as I was driving through Nevada in December last year and chances are the exterior temperature of a headlight (particularly Xenon or LED) is just as cold.
I had Bi-xenon's(meaning high and low beam) in my Maxima and I used to apply rain-x as another poster said. Never had problems. I loved having the xenon's in the winter as it made seeing a lot easier at night. My Camry now doesn't have the xenon's, it's definitely a bummer. I haven't noticed any problems here with traffic lights being LED and getting stuck with snow and ice.
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