LED Headlights replacement cost = $1000-1400 (part numbers)

[SgtLip]

It's optional extra coverage when buying a Ford PremiumCare warranty. So be it with your original purchase dealer or one of the online sellers like Flood Ford, Ziegler, etc. (although obviously Florida has special restrictions)

Yeah I learned that trying to get a Flood quote. I was lucky though to learn Ziegler is available to Florida residents.

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[Bushpilot]

Better not wreck the front end - insurance will total your truck due to headlight costs!

Exactly what I was thinking! An otherwise repairable front end wreck a few years down the road, likely to be totalled.

 

[Bushpilot]

Sounds like it might be an issue with your power. I've been pretty much all LED for almost a decade, and haven't had to replace any bulbs.

I believe my power is clean ... but who knows? I do know that I have replaced many LEDs in this house, and I have only lived here 6 years.

 

[SgtLip]

I believe my power is clean ... but who knows? I do know that I have replaced many LEDs in this house, and I have only lived here 6 years.

I had the same issues until I quit buying cheap Chinese LED bulbs and only buy the name brand ones for a higher amount. Solved my replacement issues.

 

[The Speaker Guy]

I would guess that 99% will never have to replace a headlight within the normal life of the truck, i.e. 20k miles per year for 10 years

 

[Espeer]

LED's are rated at 30,000 hours which should be good for 10 years makes it a bit more palatable, I guess?

Not sure where the 30,000 came from, but, at an average speed of 30mph, that would be almost a million miles. I don't think we need to worry about it too much...

 

[710-oil-614]

Sounds like it might be an issue with your power. I've been pretty much all LED for almost a decade, and haven't had to replace any bulbs.

Possibly but that's over three separate properties and I've watched the supply multiple times and don't see anything amiss.

 

[brnpttmn]

I had the same issues until I quit buying cheap Chinese LED bulbs and only buy the name brand ones for a higher amount. Solved my replacement issues.

Cheap bulbs could be it. I've mostly bought CREE and Phillips. The warm glow dimmable Philips are great: Amazon.com: Philips LED Flicker-Free A19 Light Bulb, Dimmable Warm Glow Effect, EyeComfort Technology, 800 Lumen, 2700-2200K, 8.5W=60W, E26 Base, Title 20 Certified, 8-Pack : Everything Else

 

[SgtLip]

Cheap bulbs could be it. I've mostly bought CREE and Phillips. The warm glow dimmable Philips are great: Amazon.com: Philips LED Flicker-Free A19 Light Bulb, Dimmable Warm Glow Effect, EyeComfort Technology, 800 Lumen, 2700-2200K, 8.5W=60W, E26 Base, Title 20 Certified, 8-Pack : Everything Else

I read an article awhile back about the cheap chinese LED bulbs and how bad they were. Mostly fire hazard but I decided then I wouldn't get them. I didn't even buy my first one until after Congress banned incandescent bulbs.

 

[botb70]

Not sure where the 30,000 came from, but, at an average speed of 30mph, that would be almost a million miles. I don't think we need to worry about it too much...

It's 30000 hours.

 

[botb70]

Do u think Ford uses a top quality LED, let's be honest????

 

[FirstFord]

Having a hard time with the fact that the led headlamps need to be replaced as a unit, costing over $1,000,(each)gnaws at me a bit. LED's are rated at 30,000 hours which should be good for 10 years makes it a bit more palatable, I guess?

You're opening a major can of worms here...

I believe that LED headlights can last the life of the vehicle barring an accident, water ingress or other incident.

But the 30,000 hour "rating" you mention isn't really meaningful. Reliability is a complex field and the statistics are not intuitive so it's really easy to misinterpret them without a lot of knowledge and effort.

We'll just take the 30,000 number as fact for the sake of argument.
This number would be for the actual LED chip as determined by the manufacturer through accelerated life testing and would be tied to operation at a specific current and chip temperature. If the lamp design can't keep at or below that temperature much of the time, then lifetime goes down dramatically. Modern LED chips are very long lasting and their lifetime in a lamp is mostly a function of how effective the thermal design is.

Also, when a number like this is published, it refers to MTTF; Mean Time To Failure. That means that in a large population, HALF of them will fail before that time. And half after. If the failure distribution is tightly clustered, it doesn't matter much; 29,000 hours or 31,000,. But if the distribution is wide, many could fail long before 30,000 hours. So MTTF without Standard Deviation information doesn't tell you a lot about when you might expect your particular unit to fail.

Edit to clarify a point. I believe that OEM LED headlights can last the life of the vehicle. I don't feel rhe same about aftermarket LED replacement bulbs. It is pretty much impossible to design an LED heatsink that fits in a light bulb socket and expect it to remove heat. The socket isn't designed to transfer heat. So the LED can only radiate into the enclosed headlamp space which is also not designed to transfer heat because traditional bulbs don't need cooling.

 

[SgtLip]

It's 30000 hours.

Driving 10 hours straight everyday with the lights on for a year is 365 X 10 = 3,650 hours per year.
30,000 hours / 3,650 hours = 8.22 years. So based on that calculation they won't last 10 years.

 

[WJOHNM]

Am thinking you have point about totaling vehicles, 2 headlamps 2000, bumper, grilles, aux fan, rad support, FX has better rad and fan, alum hood, were over 10k in parts another 6/7 with labor and materials, paint, blending doors taxes, truck totals at 80% some company's its 75%. If the insurance company don't like the shop they can total a vehicle at 50% with a high salvage bid. A air bag or two say good bye!!

 

[MLowe05]

Car companies have been putting LED headlights in vehicles for years now, all of them are non-serviceable. There is absolutely no reason to worry about this.

BTW - $1000-1400 is really not a bad price for a full LED headlight. A deer took out an LED headlight on my E-class and insurance paid $3,500 to replace it with an OEM unit.

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