Holley Retrobright LED headlight reviews?

[MikekiM]

I've been running the Toyota Koito H4 housing in my DD with upgraded harness and Hella 100/80 bulbs for coming up on a year. I had tried three different budget friendly LED headlights and though I like the bright white temperature, I hated the patterns...primarily because they had no pattern to speak of.

I want to keep the retro, period correct look but want a bright, 6000k bulb. Everything I read tells me it's a step backwards to put an LED bulb in a reflector housing, so I am abandoning that search.

Enter the Holley Retrobright LED headlight. Designed to be a classic retro look with modern LED technology. Available in 5700k. They are spec'd at 2000lm but I can't figure out what that is equiv to in halogen watts..

Theses aren't the cheapest option at about $350 for the pair, but if the pattern is clean they check off all the other options for me.

Does anyone have experience with these? Care to share your thoughts?
How do you convert 2000 lm to a usable number for the sake of comparison against an H4 bulb?

This...?

Lumens to watts table​

Lumens	Incandescent light bulb (watts)	Fluorescent / LED (watts)
375 lm	25 W	6.23 W
600 lm	40 W	10 W
900 lm	60 W	15 W
1125 lm	75 W	18.75 W
1500 lm	100 W	25 W
2250 lm	150 W	37.5 W
3000 lm	200 W	50 W

 

[voodooridr]

I've been looking at these for a bit
It would be nice to see some real world experience before dropping a lot of money on another set of LEDs that might not be any better than what I have

 

[jeepguy03]

I wouldn't buy anything from Holley. They used to be a good company, and now they are mainly concerned with buying up as many brands as they can and shipping out Chinese garbage. One of my friends bought a set of headers from them for his F100 truck. They sent out 4 sets of them, all were comically warped, before just refunding his money. I bought a few fuel system parts from them that were awful.

 

[Irun]

At that price, I'd also want to know if these are made in USA, or made in China, to US specifications.

 

[machoheadgames]

At that price, I'd also want to know if these are made in USA, or made in China, to US specifications.

considering Morimoto had a big hand in the production of these (at the very least the LED emitter, I would guess the parts that actually do something and can fail would be Chinese. I don't know that that means they are terrible though.

I had a set of custom LED headlight assemblies from Morimoto on my previous truck for a year and they worked fine. The DRL was on constantly for that full year and it didn't fail.

Also on the Holley's you can replace the emitter itself so assuming that isn't incredibly cost prohibitive, that may make them more viable as well.

 

[MikekiM]

The LED cartridge, which is replaceable, is made by Philips.

Not sure about the housing.