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The "Speaker" brand ones are the only half decent LED headlights I've seen but they are an entire 7" headlight and not just a globe, so no good for your GU.
I think you're leading yourself up the garden path... like you said, the LED technology is just not there yet.
me personally, I'm replacing my HID headlamps and going back to 100/55w halogens.............. HIDs give me the shits because youve got to angle your lights down too much to avoid dazzling other drivers and for me the colour they give off is shit, does nothing to improve my night driving vision. The sealed beams on my old clunker were better for efffs sake (personal opinion)
I'm hazarding a guess that the led jobbies would be roughly the same.
And TD the point of the cut off in projectors is so that they dont dazzle oncoming drivers like standard hids do. When you pop them onto full beam then its another story
Im not a fan of the projector style lights, regardless.
Sealed beams are perfect for a 4x4 if doing bog holes etc all the time.
Gets expensive changing reflectors all the time as your lights have filled with mud.
Being made of plastic {GU} limits the wattage you can fit ,if too high things will
start to melt I suppose
04 ST 3lt auto, not enough Mods to keep me happy, but getting there
That will be happening when i rewire pretty much everything coz the previous owner was clueless, unfortunately tho that's pretty much all on hold till after I've fixed the builders mistakes and landscaped so maybe in next year if i don't find more stuff wrong with this house! (Sorry little off topic)