The Magic Crytal LED Car Bulb review!

If inspection tell that you failed you return with H7 halogen bulb. Pass inspection, and after that put LED inside again! You don’t have to pay single penny for additional inspection if you failed. You have 7-15 days deadline to repeat inspection.

I will pass inspection with LED bulb i am 100% convinced in that.

Now question for you:

  1. How can police officer detect and determine what type of bulb do I have and what type of reflector do I use in a car? Police officers has smarter stuff to do and they don’t care for that.
  2. There is no such thing as Homologation print on my reflector and even if there it is somewhere “beneath” Police officer can’t disassemble that without an warrant.
    3. Police never checks freaking lights when car accident happens:
    First thing in a car accident situation:

- If there is no medical assistance and fireman they help to people

- They secure place of an accident and call necessary services

- Collect all necessary data from people involved in a car accident

- Do alcotest and Drug test of participants

  • Finally they do car crash report

Also you are pretty wrong with “magic crystal” too. Light should be much intense with extended range but I will have to test this. So far as you can see you have aliexpress reviews so people using that are not dumb either. They all report great improvement over halogen bulbs.

I disagree with almost everything you said…

Can’t speak for anywhere else, but here in NYC these douchebags ride around with those idiotic 2×N lightbars right across the grille blinding everyone in sight, and never get pulled over, at least not for that. If a cop wants a pretext to pull you over, he certainly can, like, “I notice your lights seem ‘odd’, and I suspect they’re non-compliant, so…”, and then run your plates, reg, lic, etc. And then let you be on your way if you’re cool or toss a few tickets at you if you’re an ass.

That’s why practically everything else (turn, backup, markers, etc.) I long ago converted to LED, as they’re nigh-impossible to tell, but headlights are THE most visible and glaring (haha) light-source on the car, and even Andrea Bocelli would be able to tell if they’re Angry Blue and obviously not what came with the car from the OEM.

For lowbeams, you might be able to do the H-whatever to H-somethingelse conversion (snip tab, file notch, etc.) to get double the lemons for only 10W more, and still have the same exact filament placement., but at the expense of bulb-life.

For ages in my old car, I was running 90W/130W H4s that were still very well-behaved, and I never ever got flashed, let alone pulled over. And the capsules came with that blue film that I just scraped off anyway, so they had the legit look of real hotwire bulbs.

Just stuff to keep in mind… :laughing:

Yes,

As you told people with powerful diy lightbars are not only seen in USA but in Europe too and that is really idiotic to use in regular traffic… Mostly hunters of Jeep like vehicles have that…

Now Xenon and HiD are very intense angry blue lights and they are legal! There are no LED bulb on a market that can match their intensity so people don’t be worried about stupid regulations!

Ad. 1 and 2. Every single legal reflector has something like this:

HCR at the top means halogen low beam and high beam. Every police officer knows about it and they do check it quite often. One of my friends installed HID retrofit in his Audi A6, projector lens with nice cutoff line etc. He got caught in less than a week.

Ad. 3. They do in most cases, especially if someone was injured or it happened during the night.

Phantom23,

I drive VW Passat B8 2015. and there is no such thing on mine car reflector. Such models(Passat B8) have Xenon, LED and Halogen headlights by default so they should never and ever suspect!

This reflector from your picture looks like old Lada or old Golf reflector?

You are worried to much, and HID kit is more intense than any LED and people with that are blinding everybody on the street since most have bad spread without suitable optics so even Andrea Bocelli could see that like Lightbringer mentioned. Tell your friend to install LED H7 bulb.

LED should be visibly weaker than Xenon or Hid but yet slightly more intense than Halogen.

There were no xenons in B8 Passat and they will suspect because each reflector type in this model looks and operate differently.
Those markings are mandatory on every legal reflector.
HIDs make more light but they’re much easier to focus. LEDs produce different beam pattern which means they focus differently than regular bulbs. Usually it ends up with increased glare and shorter range especially in classic reflectors.
You will see more light right in front of the car but at the cost of shorter range.

Please lift the bonnet (hood). It might be on the “edge” of the light housing. Which is nice of course, because you need some form of probable cause to lift the bonnet.

I drive a 2015 Subaru with factory HIDs and find them much less bright than the newer model cars that sport the latest OEM LED headlights! Given the wild disparity of bright white LED and yellow halogens seen on the roads, I would think it unlikely that you would be pulled over with 6000K LED retrofits that were aimed properly! I have been driving my 2009 Kawaski Concours with twin retrofitted LED bulbs for several years, never got stopped except the time I was speeding way over the limit. nary a mention of my headlamps!

phantom23,
Man you are exaggerating in everything! And again wrong… How something will focus depends on reflector/optics and bulb design! You can’t claim stupid things like “HID focuses easier” this is not true and quite opposite from that you wrote! HID kit ends up with increased glare in classic reflector headlights while LED bulb should have beam pattern that depends on LED bulb design(as you see you have at least 5 different types of LED bulb design) and it is surely capable of giving even beam pattern with better looking less intense light than HID.

No one will ever suspect. And even if they “suspect” What they should suspect? This is no felony!

So question for you: Did you test any of LED “bulb” design in your car? If you did please tell us which car LED bulbs you used? If you did I could actually accept your opinion but if you did not use them I simply can’t accept opinion which is not empirically proved. That kind of opinion means nothing…

I opened this thread to see if there is any BLF member that could actually help me to choose car LED bulb and to help other BLF members in their choice. You are obviously not one of them :slight_smile:

DOMEHAVEN,

Thanks on experience with Police and LED. It is good to know that LED can be brighter than HID( I would be happy camper if it will be brighter than halogen).
About “retrofits that is unlikely aimed properly”. I believe that it can focus same like Halogen if not better. Click my mentioned link for ordered light. Look at the photos people posted. Beam looks even and perfectly centered with my ordered model of LED bulb. How it will behave in my car reflector I still don’t know until I try.

HID focuses easier because the very light source (an electric arc that’s a few mm long) is optically close to the filament in the regular bulb. It does produce more glare simply because it’s much brighter. 100W H7 bulb will also produce more glare for the same reason.

Meanwhile with LEDs they are all optically different from halogen bulbs, they have higher surface with lower surface intensity, they have different shape etc. Side effects are very reflector dependant, some reflectors will focus better than others, some will produce more artefacts etc. Classic reflectors are much worse at dealing with LED retrofits than projector lenses.

My opinion based on 1 bulb in one reflector will mean much less than multiple tests you can find around the internet.

“Suspecting” is not a felony but it’s enough to stop you and/or take a loot. “HC” on the reflector and you will end up with a ticket.

Dom said that factory lenses can be brighter than retrofit HIDs. It’s very likely.

phantom23,

This is thread where we strive to find the most suitable or should I say the best possible LED bulb for our car. We are on BLF after all. Here we(not me but there is certainly someone who knows something about that) should know more about that than internet and youtubers right?

Attitude where LED is not suitable as a retrofit or this is better than that, or like LED bulb is big problem for Law Enforcement Officers that will skin us alive will not lead us to proper car LED bulb selection.

Everybody can decide on their own whether to put LED bulb or not. In my case I have 0(zero) risk of doing that.

Where Dom mentioned retrofitted HIDs? He said that factory HID is less bright than OEM Factory LED. So LED can be brighter after all…

So to be back on topic look at the pics of costumers that bought same Car “Magic Crystal” LED:

How that looks to your eyes?

That looks awful. Don’t want to have that car approaching me.

The fact that we’re on BLF doesn’t mean we should encourage dangerous behaviour.

As for the pictures - glare galore with LED, the second picture is terryfying - there’s no cutoff line, just one massive light glow illuminating trees and everything around. That’s dangerous.

Look that from brighter side of life.

Someone has Xenon or HID and blinds everybody on a road and on the other hand you have ability to install something like in above mentioned photo (which is still a lot weaker than factory Xenon or HID). That could be called as “equalization”.

phantom23

I still think that you are exaggerating about safety. Above are randomly picked photos and I don’t know whether they are high or low beam. They look perfectly fine to my eyes without any blindspots as I could see with plenty of other 2 sided LED bulbs.

Here is another photo of “Magic Crystal” in newer Škoda Octavia:

Phantom in one of his post stated that “Magic Crystal” will be less bright than classic halogen. Well it surely does not look like that :laughing:

Really, really looking forward for that. The last pic with Skoda is something what I can expect in my car since they are within same VW VAG group (VW,Skoda, Seat, Audi). By judging that picture it looks as it should look and can pass Car inspection without any problem.

I guess phantom23 could also find errors in that beam pattern? :laughing:

it does not matter how it is aimed, “fake” leds or hid are clearly distinguishable. it is very easy to spot them. they do blind oncoming traffic as well as those in front of you. all true, but can we please NOT turn into “the other” forum
as far as laws: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 (FMVSS 108) regulates all automotive lighting, signalling and reflective devices in the United States.

it is not the brightest you need to look for, but the one that works best with your headlight, which kit that is… that is only possible to answer if someone who had tried several of them on exact car as yours. which will not be easy to find, otherwise you’ll have to try few and see how they work. or more like , if you like how they work, cuz none will worked properly with optics that were not designed for the light source. but if you insist of swapping, this will be how you find the best for you.
several years ago i read that certain kind of leds worked great, so i got those exact lights, installed them, and they worked worse than what i had before. so what is good in one man’s opinion, is unacceptable for another guy

I picked best two costumer photos I found on Aliexpress regarding “Magic Crystal LED” bulb (it can be bought under 4 different retailers, different OEM but they are same)

Projector headlights or optics in close valley (Sharp borders of aspheric lenses are clearly seen):

Reflector headlights:

They both look like short light beam? If I’ll judge photos they both look perfectly fine. Since I am aspherics fan first one looks much better with sharper borders but I have reflector headlights so mine will probably look like bottom one with wider spread…

alpg88,

This one seems like universal fit as you can see by photos.

yes, they will all physically fit, but they will all work different with different optics, and since the optic was not build for those, the beam quality will differ from car to car.

If they did, they wouldn’t get type approval. So I think that properly done LED bulbs are close enough to halogen for that to be a non-issue.

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HID retrofit can blind others due to sheer brightness. LEDs are dimmer but it doesn’t mean there’s less glare - due to different optical characteristics and artifacts there can be much more glare! Like in your picture!

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Your eyes are wrong, they look horrible! There are tonnes of glare in both puctires.

Yes, who cares about safety, right? There are nowhere near accidents on the roads right now, we should die more!

I said they can provide shorter range as that’s usually the cse with LED retrofits.

Being in the same manufacturer group says NOTHING about the optical characteristics of the reflector.

That beam patters is horrible as well, there’s monstrous glare that illuminates entire house and a tree in front of it.

You will not pass the inspection for one more reason - those bulbs have fans and they’re pretty loud. Guy performing the inspection will spot it right away.