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Originally Posted by Pidish
theres no reason to have brighter DRL's, its stupid. your car already has HID's, just use those...
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Use HIDs as DRLs? You wouldn't want to use your HIDs as DRLs as running those bulbs at a reduced voltage will damage the bulb and the ballast and essentially everything related to them. Not seeing the connection here...
To be fair, most new vehicles, particularly German vehicles, have insanely bright LED DRLs, which simply dim when the in-most-cases HID low beams turn on. It's not really the brightness of the Cree LEDs that concern me, as much as how the reflector setup is optimized for a high beam pattern that shoots light into the skies, whereas cars that actually came from factory with LED DRLs, at least the ones I'm aware of, usually have the LED DRLs setup in a strip format that isn't done in a reflector housing.
With that being said, I've seen a lot of LEDs stuck into reflector housings as DRLs, even supposedly ultra bright Cree bulbs, and pretty much every vehicle I've seen with LED DRLs retrofitted have the actual light intensity significantly dimmer than any incandescent setup. Reflector housings will never be able to properly distribute light from anything but an incandescent halogen bulb. So I will leave you with the benefit of doubt that it is in fact the camera not being able to capture the true intensity of the LED DRL.