FEATURED Philips 12824WLEDX1 DayLight 8 High Powered Luxeon LED Daytime Running Light
- High powered Philips Luxeon LED daytime running light
- Maximum visibility, premium design
- Premium ultra slim design
- Easy to install, smart clip-on system and wiring provided
- DOT compliant
Philips Lighting introduces LED DayLight running lights featuring German engineered optimized high-power automotive Philips Luxeon Rebel LED technology that projects a powerful bright white light and maximizes energy consumption. Developed in Europe for style and toughness, Philips LED Daylight 8 appeals to motorists who want to increase their safety while customizing their car with a stylish modern look. LED Daylight 8 is the only DRL you will ever need; it lasts more than 10,000 hours, the lifetime of the car, thus eliminating the need for maintenance.
Are you spending more time on the road and concerned about your safety? Or are you looking to customize your vehicle with the latest innovative automotive lighting technology? The Philips LED DayLight 8 Daytime Running Light is the solution to meet your safety and customization needs.
Philips LED Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) feature an optimized high-power automotive Philips LUXEON Rebel LED technology that projects a powerful bright white light and maximizes energy consumption. At the same time, it appeals to motorists who want to increase their safety while customizing their car with a stylish OE look. The LED DayLight 8 DRLs enables motorists to switch from a halogen to a LED light source during the daytime and reduces the use of the halogen lamps. It lasts more than 10,000 hours thus eliminating the need for maintenance.
Award Winning
Named as One of the Best New Import Products of 2011 by the Auto International Association
Maximum Light Output
Philips LED DayLight 8 enhances daytime driving for high visibility and maximum safety that delivers a 100% wider beam than the average DRL on the road. Cars equipped with LED DayLight 8 can be seen much more easily by pedestrians and other motorists. DRLs have been proven to contribute to a significant reduction in accident rates. Fully compliant with existing DOT and SAE regulations, the lights turn on automatically at the start of the engine and reduce by 50% when parking lights are on.
Premium Design
LED Daylights deliver the look of today’s high-end, high performance vehicles. The LED DayLight 8 has a premium ultra-slim design, which gives the lighting a highly distinctive appearance, setting your vehicle apart from the crowd.
Easy Installation
The compact LED DayLight 8 is easy to install (approximately 2 hours). Their snap-in mounts and plug-and-play connectors ensure easy and quick installation. The LED DayLight 8 design and smart mounting kit makes it easy for non-professionals to install. Once mounted, the lights switch on automatically. Note: this product is not compatible with Electric/Hybrid vehicles.
Designed for Safety
Designed for Safety Light is the first and the only proactive element of the safety circle that helps prevent accidents. The extreme white and powerfully bright light of the LED DayLights are best perceived by pedestrians and oncoming traffic.
A study, published by the European Commission, has evaluated that daytime running lights have a yearly life-saving factor of 3 to 5 percent (or between 1,200 and 2,000 road fatalities per year).
And that’s not all–a greater number of accidents occur during daytime than is commonly believed. About 40% of the total number of accidents occur during daytime.
Daylight light solutions provide better visibility of your car because of their unusual position, and because they diffuse light in all directions compared to low beam light that projects concentrated light onto the road.
Notice: Once installed, the vehicle must be turned on in order for the Philips DayTime Running Lights to operate.
Quality kit – some installation and operation info,
These Philips LED DRLs are well built, bright, rugged, and the supplied harness and hardware are top notch. Heatsinking is excellent so the LEDs should remain bright for the life of the car. The LEDs on my units are also of matched tint with none appearing particularly warmer or cooler. Overall the tint is a cool white which goes well with HID headlights, but my halogen fogs look very yellow next to these. They are not as surprisingly bright as I was hoping for after reading the reviews here, but isn’t that how it always is with high expectations. (EDIT: After 3 weeks in varying weather I can say they are satisfyingly bright. I find myself driving off at night forgetting to turn my headlights on since they do illuminate the road to a degree.)
Hookup is easy – 3 wires: battery +/-, and one lead to a parking light. The control module has two excellent waterproof plugs that connect to the lights. The lights have sufficiently long wires with matching plugs at the end. All wire is protected by a gloss black vinyl tubing. The lead to the parking light was not long enough for my installation (center of firewall to left front park light).
The lights function by sensing change in battery load and automatically turn on. When the module senses the battery is in a steady state the lights turn off after ~10 seconds. This works well enough, but has some quirks. My car has delayed-off dome lights. So when I open the door and trigger the dome lights, the module senses the current and the DRLs turn on (no key in ignition). Not quite 10 seconds later the DRLs turn off (meanwhile my dome lights are still on). Then when my dome lights turn off, the module senses another change and turns the DRLs on again for 10 seconds. So while this could seem like a fancy convenience function of the DRLs, it is the consequence of the simplified hookup design. I do not find this objectionable except when the battery is connected to a charger that is cycling on and off and the lights are turning on/off as well. Personally I would have preferred wiring them to the ignition or the option to. As is when I approach the car and unlock the doors with my remote, the DRLs come on and help locate the car as well as illuminate the walk toward it – not a bad thing.
The LEDs dim when the park/headlights are on unless the park light lead is not hooked up. These are bright enough that oncoming drivers will be annoyed if they are not dimmed at night. The control module uses PWM dimming which is basically a superfast strobe. This is noticeable when waving your hand in front of them, but not when driving.
I measured the current to the system and it was 1.25 A on hi, and 110 mA when dimmed which figures to 16 and 1.4 watts. By contrast my two dome light bulbs draw 680 mA each or 17 watts for the pair, more than the DRLs on hi.
Depending on your vehicle, installation may be more involved that the 2 hr. estimate. My car (2003 Audi S6) has lower grilles which are not ideal for directly mounting these. I fabricated some brackets that bolted to the bumper support and secured the lights into openings I cut in the grilles (I uploaded a customer pic of the finished install).
If you do mount as suggested by screwing the frames to the car then snapping the lights into the frames, be advised it will be difficult to remove them. The frames are a strong spring steel and snap securely over the light housings in matching recesses. So once the light is snapped into the frame they are flush, and once in the frames the lights obstruct the mounting screws. Removing the lights would require prying the frames up to free the locking tabs – something I’d rather not attempt. There is another suggested mounting option – directly bolting them to the car via two M5 tapped holes in the back of the housings and not using the frames, but there are no M5 bolts included in the kit.
My car requires removal of the front end for certain engine maintenance. As such I wish there was also a disconnect plug at the lights and not just at the control box. Removal of the lights would require unplugging at the control box and feeding all the wire back through – PITA. I ended up adding disconnects at the lights and making 2-piece mouting brackets so I could remove the lights, their frames, and part of the bracket easily as one unit without having to pry the lights out of the frames. When I added the disconnects I removed most of the excess wire and used some to extend the park light lead which was short.
The only non-OEM quality part in the kit is the connection for the lead to the park lights, a Scotchlok-style tap splice. I’ve had problems with corrosion over time with these, so I placed a blob of silicone in it before I squeezed it to encapsulate the connection.
Overall I am very satisfied with them and have confidence they will last. I would have liked the ability to disconnect the lights at the…
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|Great Product – But, No Support from Philips,
Based upon the glowing reviews for this product, I decided to make the investment in the LED DayLight 8 running lights for my new F-150 King Ranch. The product is well-made, lives up to all of the reviews, and the shipment was prompt and problem-free. Installation was relatively straight-forward, although the instructions for the wiring sequence were a little confusing and I hadn’t anticipated the need to remove the entire headlight assembly to access the wire to the parking light. I was very pleased with the end result, until a few days later when someone on the street pointed out that the running lights were flashing on and off. It seems that after the vehicle runs about a minute, the running lights begin flashing…5 seconds on and 2 seconds off. It appears the control box may be overheating….which seems further supported by the fact that the flashing stops when the running lights are in “dim mode” when the headlights are on. Convinced a replacement control box would fix the problem, I called the Philips support number that is listed on the instructions and on the box the running lights came in. This phone number is for the household lighting division, which is totally unfamiliar with this product. They transferred me to the automotive division…which appears to only be able to help consumers identify which replacement light bulbs to buy for their vehicles. After several circular conversations it became evident that Philips was unable / unwilling to help me….to the point that it seemed they had never heard of this product. These results are very disappointing. The LED Daylight 8 running lights were a great addition to my truck and I am very frustrated that after spending over 2 hours to install them, I now have to uninstall them tonight so that UPS can pick them up tomorrow to return Amazon. Since I’m not willing to invest the time for another installation with potentially similar results, I didn’t request a replacement set.
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|Fantastic!,
Extremely bright… exactly the same LEDs and brightness that comes standard on Audi, BMW, etc. Installation was a breeze, it took a total of 1 hour, most of that was running the wires neatly and mounting the control box. I was a little skeptical about using just two screws, so I added some 3M trim tape as well. They are on there extremely solid now. The control box includes a wire that taps into the stock headlight wire, so the unit can dim the DRLs at night. For the time being, I left it disconnected. Depending on how it looks at night, I might leave it that way, or connect it later on. While these are pricey compared to some of the other DRLs out there, they are DEFINATELY worth the extra money. Highly recommended!!!!!
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