Installing LED Headlight & Fog Light Bulbs In My Ford Ranger! 

My pleasure, I'm glad the video was helpful! Yes yellow fog lights with LED headlights is a thing right now, and it does look good! But I'm into the all white look, no yellow. Just a personal preference.

hows the headlights holding up?? 1 year later

These have been in for almost 3 years now, and have worked fine. Truck was recently sold out of the family but until now they were great, no issues at all!

Awesome!

Nice!

Yeah I didn't add more hardware. They're secured enough as is. I wish Ford made it easier to access those bolts, very stupid design but whatever.

You know, as much as I love LEDs, i kinda prefer the incandescent style blinking for the turn signals. I'm weird.

Yup, my nephew actually has the truck now and they're still going strong! Highly recommended!

Check 1aauto.com, that's where mine are from. They have a couple options for headlight assemblies there. Also, to further answer your question, these are oem style replacement headlights (the actual brand is Depo I think...?)

@@AutoFixYT thank you . i got mine if amazon that’s probably why they are low quality

Thanks!

Nice! Nope, MA haha

No that has nothing to do with the headlight bulbs. It's most likely a bad bulb in the dash, the indicator bulb that is. It's not super easy to pull the cluster out on that but I've done it before, doable with minimal frustration lol

I am receiving led bulbs in 2 days and I’m wondering if that’ll change the beam mattern and allow me to have both low and high beam finally. it’s just you seem to have a total of 3 headlight settings (the orange lights, low and high) and I only have 2 it confuses me.

The headlight switch on the dash has 3 positions. 1. Off (switch straight up) 2. Parking lights/running lights (one click to the right) 3. Low beams (two clicks/all the way to the right) The high beams are operated throught the multifunction switch, which is the same one that operates your wipers. Pulling on the stalk towards you will flash the high beams. From this position it should return back to the neutral position Pushing it away, towards the dash, will leave the high beams engaged until you pull the stalk back to its neutral resting position. The high beams flashing will operate regardless of the headlight switch position. You should be able to flash them even with the vehicle off. That is a safety thing. However, the solid on potion should only work with the headlight switch in the low beam position. On another note, the fog lights will only operate when the headlight switch is either on the parking light position OR the low beam position. The fog light switch is located on the right side of the radio. The fog lights should NOT be on when the high beams are on. That is also a safety regulation. If something isn't right, you may have bad switches, or someone has previously messed with the wiring. Hope this helps!

@@AutoFixYT thank you so much seriously I had no clue it was operated by the wipers. Take care!

I do not have DRL. Mine is an 06 so that must be a feature on the newer ones. However... If you didn't know, DRL works by lighting up the high beam bulb at half voltage. Usually LEDs will flicker like you said, because they're not getting full voltage. If they don't flicker that means they are able to operate at half voltage and thus will blind everyone. Regardless of the situation, you will want to disable your DRLs. Look up how to do it, I'm sure someone has posted something online about it.

@@AutoFixYT i think it was because i have a Canadian ranger in the US.. the US ones didn’t have DRL’s but i think after the 2004 model on the Canadian rangers they lost the ability to disconnect it.. although.. i have an LED flasher for my turn signals from diode dynamics and I’m wondering if the flasher will correct that flicker if i get it. I’ll keep what you said in mind and see if there’s another way around it. I appreciate your feedback!

@@LumberZack3 Hmm yes that is possibly why you have DRLs. So the flickering is actually caused by the low voltage that the bulbs cannot handle. So they just keep turning on and off rapidly. So a turn signal flasher will not solve anything, nor will a resistor. However, there is always a circuit that controls the DRLs. Even if it's as simple as one single wire that supplies power to a relay when the headlights are off. There must be something you can do to disable them.

@@AutoFixYT I’ll definitely have to look into it further because i almost want to get full aftermarket lights instead at this point, I’ll look deeper if i have to

Yeah I'm sure someone else has been through this

Worth it! Huge difference at night.

Gotta get her fixed up! Ranger danger!

@@AutoFixYT if I can get to run, get new cats & seats, new transmission, muffler (I have a Thrush glasspack), intake tube, tune up, radiator flush, for sure new tires, & new brakes

@@Jeremy_Hill_2020 Sounds like a pretty complex list, good luck!

@@AutoFixYT my ranger has the 4R44E transmission transmission has issues shifting but when it does get into 2nd gear, O/D turns off automatically plus the O/D is snapped the gear selector cable isn't connected, odometer stopped working cause the gears fused into each other

Well if you have sentimental attachment to that truck then I understand wanting to fix it, but with all those expensive issues, wouldn't it be worth it to get another Ranger and build that one?

Yeah I could do that too. Might be easier actually.

That is actually a very common misconception that people have and that comes from many different areas. Especially from the fact that most people don't know how to correctly upgrade and end up with exactly what you're talking about. Trust me, I've experienced it too. There are ways to get a very nice beam with no glare when upgrading to LEDs in factory housings. I have a video coming up in the future where I talk about all this and cover all aspects of how to do it right, and what to avoid to make sure you are NOT blinding others while getting the most lighting for yourself. After years of experimenting with LEDs I can guarantee you I am able to get a perfect beam from all my cars. There are tricks to do it right as well as some things you must have/make sure of to get this right, but it will all be covered in that video. So stay tuned if you're interested. Also, I can assure you this truck has never blinded any oncoming traffic. The beam cutoff is spot on and the headlights are adjusted properly.

@@AutoFixYTGreat response. I replaced everything in my F-150 with lights that can been seen from space. When aimed properly, low beams will not blind anyone. They certainly aren't "plug and play", as the light pattern was quite different than the OEM halogens. Without aiming them thermal damage might occur to oncoming traffic. 😄

@danvanleeuwen1974 that's awesome haha but yes, a well installed set of LED headlights should not blind others and benefit your own visibility.