retrofit Projector headlights?

[everydaychris]

Would anyone buy these??

AlphaRex NOVA-Series LED Projector Headlights for Tesla Model 3 / Y

Looking for the new improved 6x version? Click HERE The AlphaRex NOVA-Series LED Headlights not only improve the look of your Tesla, but increase the performance. Designed exclusively for Model 3 / Y, AlphaRex NOVA-Series LED Headlights are a direct plug and play replacement for your OEM...

tsportline.com

IF so, what questions would you guys have? THey look so sexy and the light output is supposed to be WAY better

Who wants to see an installation video??

 

[Grandpa Gebis]

As someone who has a vision only car, I’m all for improving my visibility.

Honestly though, I’m not impressed with the light output of these, at least from the pictures. Id rather have an OEM matrix retrofit, but I know that will never happen. Something like these might just have to do

 

[Snakedoc]

KimJava has an installation video out already. I think I saw it last week. She installed it with T-Sportline. Looked impressive. Light output was greatly improved.

 

[Kairide]

Coming from the Tacoma community, I can tell you AlphaRex is garbage. When testing light output lumens, their products are garbage. To the naked eye a whole bunch of light looks good, but when testing their headlights with equipment, they were on par or worse then stock halogen headlights.
You can find the same headlights branded as AlphaRex on Alibaba for 1/2 the price usually.

 

[DoublePhister]

Also coming from the Tacoma cummunity I can say that the stock MY matrix headlights make the stock halogen Tacoma lights feel llike I am trying to light the road with birthday candles. I can finally see at night. No way am I replacing the matrix lights.

 

[Kairide]

Also coming from the Tacoma cummunity I can say that the stock MY matrix headlights make the stock halogen Tacoma lights feel llike I am trying to light the road with birthday candles. I can finally see at night. No way am I replacing the matrix lights.

Throw in some RX-350 projectors and your Tacoma will transform. Best mod I ever did.

 

[everydaychris]

their nano led's look interesting. gonnna get a light output meter and test the 2

 

[Jkwan]

As mentioned in another thread, light output width wise is not as bright as stock lights from there own pictures; in addition, it has two hot spots. We been asking for awhile of actual lights output comparison on a actual road and not against a wall from Tsportline, but been ignored.

 

[GoldenBoy]

Would anyone buy these??

AlphaRex NOVA-Series LED Projector Headlights for Tesla Model 3 / Y

Looking for the new improved 6x version? Click HERE The AlphaRex NOVA-Series LED Headlights not only improve the look of your Tesla, but increase the performance. Designed exclusively for Model 3 / Y, AlphaRex NOVA-Series LED Headlights are a direct plug and play replacement for your OEM...

tsportline.com

IF so, what questions would you guys have? THey look so sexy and the light output is supposed to be WAY better

Who wants to see an installation video??

I'd like to see a before and after on the road light output comparison video. A couple hot spots on a wall like Kim and Tsport both did, really tell us nothing practical.

If you can prove they have improved output in the real world, and don't suffer in some other dynamic like width, I'll buy them via your affiliate link.

 

[Kairide]

Here’s a picture from the headlight guru in the Tacoma forums.

An AlphaRex headlight is on the left and a Morimoto headlight on the right. The AlphaRex has all foreground light which looks good to the eye and gives a false impression that they are bright. They impair your nighttime distance vision sine they offer all their light in the foreground. A good headlight will have little foreground light and increase in intensity to the cutoff so you don’t outrun your headlights.

 

[everydaychris]

I'd like to see a before and after on the road light output comparison video. A couple hot spots on a wall like Kim and Tsport both did, really tell us nothing practical.

If you can prove they have improved output in the real world, and don't suffer in some other dynamic like width, I'll buy them via your affiliate link.

trying to put alot of real world thought into it.

 

[everydaychris]

Here’s a picture from the headlight guru in the Tacoma forums.
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An AlphaRex headlight is on the left and a Morimoto headlight on the right. The AlphaRex has all foreground light which looks good to the eye and gives a false impression that they are bright. They impair your nighttime distance vision sine they offer all their light in the foreground. A good headlight will have little foreground light and increase in intensity to the cutoff so you don’t outrun your headlights.

do you know what series it is? I know they have a ton of different types and their newest is the nova series quad projector ones

 

[tom @ eas]

Installed a set of these last week, fitment is very good and essentially Plug and Play - there is a wire on each headlamp that needs to be wired to the 12V battery.

Don't have any review since the install was performed during the day.

Before

After

 

[Kairide]

do you know what series it is? I know they have a ton of different types and their newest is the nova series quad projector ones

I believe it is their nova series with quad projectors, but not 100% sure.

 

[bnsfengineer]

Throw in some RX-350 projectors and your Tacoma will transform. Best mod I ever did.

Uhhhhh... This is a Tesla forum btw

 

[bnsfengineer]

As someone who has a vision only car, I’m all for improving my visibility.

Honestly though, I’m not impressed with the light output of these, at least from the pictures. Id rather have an OEM matrix retrofit, but I know that will never happen. Something like these might just have to do

It's overpriced at close to 2K with installation, I can't justify the cost and rather spend on some other mod

 

[Kairide]

Uhhhhh... This is a Tesla forum btw

Uhhhhh…..doesn’t mean you can’t give advice on another model of car when the topic comes up.
Reading the thread before commenting helps.

 

[schen72]

I think the stock headlights on my Y (non-matrix) are plenty bright for me.

 

[everydaychris]

Retrofit is done!
Now my question to you all:
What's more important? Brighter lights with a narrow beam pattern? Or dimmer lights with a wider beam pattern?
This is with fog lights OFF.
The alpha rex are SUPER bright.
Installation was actually not difficult either. Removing the front bumper I thought it might be a challenge but tesla makes it easy.

 

[schen72]

Retrofit is done!
Now my question to you all:
What's more important? Brighter lights with a narrow beam pattern? Or dimmer lights with a wider beam pattern?
This is with fog lights OFF.
The alpha rex are SUPER bright.
Installation was actually not difficult either. Removing the front bumper I thought it might be a challenge but tesla makes it easy.

Did you forget the pic?