Sylvania ZEVO LED Bulb Comparison
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2015
- This is to show difference in stock bulbs and new LED bulbs, without having to replace the taillight assembly to achieve LED brake lights.
Shown on a '99 Dodge Dakota SLT. - Авто та транспорт
THE Perfect video. No fat, just info. Thank you.
Thanks. I made a long review too, but needed a short one because I hate sitting through a bunch of nothing to just see the result.
Thank you for your 4 year old video. It completely settles the question of which automotive led bulbs are worth it in signal/marker applications
Haha, this video is getting old. I guess they still sell the same model bulbs now? I don't think they've made much changes to them.
The ZEVO LEDs are made in Italy. I bought a pair today and they are brighter. I like how they light up faster too.
i just got the zeno bulbs for my jeep and i wanted to see how good they are before i put them in, amazing video, insane difference. thx you
Already running some of these zevo 3157's for DRL's in my '00 silverado. Love them and after watching this, I'm definitely going to replace my brake lights with 3157R's and amber turn signals with 3157A's.
Some older vehicles (like mine) will need an LED-compatible turn-signal flasher to avoid "hyperflash" problems; So to anyone out there looking at buying these, make sure to do some research on your vehicle before replacing your turn signals with these.
+Eric Butler Do some research if you own a Volkswagen or similar car, they have something called a CAN bus and that can cause problems with plain old LEDs that have no resistor or other circuit in them. My best advice is to make sure that you can return them even if the package is opened and they bulbs were used. This way if for some reason your car doesn't like the bulbs you aren't stuck with them. Make sure to ask these questions BEFORE YOU PAY and of course keep the receipt where it won't get lost or damaged or even exposed to excessive heat and sunlight if it is that damned thermal paper they all use now.
Zevo LED' s are great! no doubt..i have the red ones...Very bright, quick response. I totally recommend them!
I have these in my wife's Kia soul. 1157 and my neon. 3157. they are great. The reason why it would say not street legal is to protect the company from lawsuits and local laws vary all over the place. the ones I have were purchased from Wal-Mart for 19.99. A general rule with LEDs as most of you all know. use the bulb with the same color as the lens.
Method 82 thanks does that help keep the brightness about the same as an incandescent dim it down a bit instead of using the white color?
Thanks for the video. There isn't a lot of info on these new-style ZEVOs yet.
I've been looking into buying Sylvania Xevo and your vid has me sold. I was looking to keep my OEM lights with all the perks of a drop in LED and this will do what I want. Great short video, thanks for sharing.
+Steven Cassada Great! Glad to help.
+Steven Cassada The nice thing about these is they are plug and play for cars with a bulb out detection system or CAN bus. Any car that has either of the two would either need the computer reprogrammed or need load resistors IF they don't have them already in the bulbs. In some cars the gremlins can get really upset with you and you need a resistor or bulb that already has one because in rare instances really strange things can happen. There is a UA-cam video with a Jeep Patriot that had some kind of bizarre problem. Until I saw that I thought that it was mostly a problem with Volkswagens and similar cars. I have an 06 Jetta and that car is somewhat finicky about bulbs.
Great video. Thanks!
tnx for the video and helped me decide on buying the same bulbs. they a little pricey but they really worth it.
+Saul Espejel Yeah, they're a little pricey, but they should last forever. They seem well made, high quality.
I can't decide if I like the instant-on effect of the LED better or not.
Does it hyper flash ? Have you installed load resistors on these bulbs to prevent hyper flash ?
Do not get for front turn signals on a 2014 Silverado. They are not brighter than incandescent bulbs in the turn signals
Is this compatible with my dodge 1500 2012
The Zevo's are great! I was a little skeptical at the way they were manufactured with the metal heatsink and the way the LED's where positioned on them.They look great on my 2001 LR Discovery!
+JUKE179r LEDs are very unidirectional light sources. The Sylvania Zevo and Phillips Vision 3157 & 1157 LED modules have SMT LEDs that are purposely angled such that they are focused directly into the sweet spot on most original equipment Tungsten bulb reflectors in the original lamp housings. This allows the extremely bright and focused unidirectional LED light to sufficiently mimic the original omnidirectional Tungsten Filament bulbs without being overpowering. As you can see the light completely fills the Tungsten Halogen lamp housing and is noticeably brighter and more visible than the original Tungsten bulbs but not so bright that it attracts the attention of law enforcement or, more importantly, causes other drivers problems.
I would be interested in a longer distance night highway visibility demo where Tungsten and LED bulbs were compared from 1/2, 3/4, & 1 mile distances on a straight flat road.
Hi Kenneth.......If you still have your Dakota, I'd love for you to do a comparison going back to an incandescent bulb but this time try a 3457 which is (40/3 candlepower), vs. your original incandescent 3157 (32/3cp). In all fairness your 3157 may have been worn and the inner-bulb coated with carbon from the filament burning off over the years.Also, the best incandescent-bulb for that 3457 is the GE Nighthawk, but right now they're inflated on Amazon, unless you can find it in a parts-store and pay no more than $5 a pair, or try any another well-known branded 3457.
There's a possibility it might be brighter than the ZEVO. What many people don't understand is LED retrofits (cheap or brand-names like the ZEVO or Philps) DO NOT work well in most tail-lamps since the lamp housings optics were originally designed for an incandescent bulb. While your video does show more luminocity, the camera or even the human eye can be tricked.......maybe dead-on it's brighter, but not as bright as an incandescent off-axis and off to the side, high/low and at all angles.
An even better experiment is to back the vehicle up about 10' from a white wall and then take a photo or video of what's actually projected in brightness and beam-pattern on the wall. That's the best test vs. photometric lab-tunnel testing .
Learned all this on the Candlepowerforum's auto-lighting board, that has a few automotive lighting engineers who run that section for the past 15yrs religiously.
I bought a pair of the regular Sylvania LED bulbs. They're definitely brighter than the original 1157 bulbs I had. And my particular tail lights they leave kind of a dark Center which I don't like. Has anyone ever compared them against the zevo?
i put them on my 2004 mustang gt and they are cool but they are triggering the light out switch. so when i use my turn signals both sides the lights flash alot faster. i dont know if i can get pulled over for that. my tailights look like strobes. people prolly think the police got someone stopped because the mustang has 3 red bulbs per side.
There is a ballast or load-balancer for that.
It's a $20 plastic thing you add to the power wires
Switch your relay out with an electronic one. The Ford part number is EP27.
on sylvania buld do you still need resistors ?? so it wont blink fast ?
+Jordan Francogallardo It depends on the vehicle. Even though my vehicle is old, it still didn't need anything extra. I guess because of the single bulb setup my truck has.
Thank you for the video. I'm replacing my girlfriend's parking lights. She leaves her lights on whenever she drives. I'm wondering if the lifespan of these LEDs will far outlast the traditional incandescents. Any idea?
Women and cars do not mix! 😄
My girlfriend thought that the oil in her car lasted for the lifetime of the car until it turned into tar
Can anyone help me out here one package says zevo h-11 and the other package just says h-11 LED.. they both say 6000k, are they the same?
If it’s h11 it’s still h11. Simple as that. With zevo version, it just makes ur low beam led brighter than regular ones
Check out the "LED Brake Lights Review" for the full review.
I bought some ZEVO 3157 ambers for DRLs in my Corvette, they're a little dimmer than the stock incandescent and one of them burned out after a week.
ConnorWolf did they hyperflash?
I'm wondering why all the tests for incandescent and Sylvania were done with the vehicle in the dark, while the Pilot test is clearly in light. As a result, the test is skewed. I'll look to other videos that give fair testing in exact same environmental conditions.
Nope, they were all tested within 30 mins during the day. The camera probably made it look darker and lighter. I should've locked the exposure, but I didn't.
I have the Exact same bulbs As far as I can tell sylvania 3157r zevo, The difference between the two is almost Non existent Do I have the Resistor on the wrong wires Ground and major, 1996 Dakota.
Comparing side-by-side stills of this video, the incandescent bulbs are brighter than the Pilot LEDs when fully illuminated.
Or it at least appears to be. I may be mistaken, but I believe the incandescent bulbs are white/clear, when I think they should really be red. Why compare red LEDs to white incandescent bulbs? Bananas to plantains.
I believe the incandescent bulbs are supposed to be clear (oem). The Pilot LED bulbs were white as well, and they weren't as bright. The Zevo bulb was the red, and clearly brighter than the other two.
I wonder how they would compare if they were red. In either case, this video has definitely sold me on Sylvania ZEVO LEDs for my tails. I drive a Dakota, so this video was perfect.
The clear bulb is a fuller spectrum where RGB makes white, while the LED dongle is red spectrum (it will not change the red output in any way) the Clear/white bulb will let more yellow ish threw through a red lens... on the RED/Green spectrum, RED+GREEN = yellow.. So the clear incandescent bulb has a much higher advantage over the RED only LED.
The test is skewed because the incandescent and ZEVO are clearly with the vehicles in the dark, while the Pilot is with the vehicle in a lit area.
Nice video. I was wondering why I was getting hyper flashing when I attempted to replace the turn signals. But, I thought u use red bulbs if u had a clear lens and white bulbs if u had a red lens??
with led lights use the color of the lens. red lens use red led. hope that helps
+AlexTaco yeah, I tried a red set after watching the vid. Definitely brighter. Red lens allow red light to pass through. Regular clear incandescent bulbs do give off some red light but that's not the case with a white led. With LEDs definitely go with the color of the lens.
+Zane G did you have issues with hyper flash? with the red leds?
+AlexTaco with all LEDs. so I just left reg bulbs in the blinkers. Didn't really want to install the relays. just replaced the brake bulbs. Looking for some good back up lights now. I'm checking out the ones at vleds.
just and update. vleds.com hands down the best led bulbs I've used in my 05 Silverado. I tried everything at the local auto parts stores. These are brightest and most contrast between running and brake. Also ordered some reverse lights. Only reverse leds I found that was brighter than my stockers. 1000 lumens.
Song name?
Geez man! I'm gonna have to look it up. I really can't remember. It was a while ago when I made this video.
With a little digging I found the song... Linkin Park - Universe (2006 Demo)
Thanks a lot!!
zevo wins
pilot LED bulbs suck