It’s an everyday occurrence on the road – gleaming smooth-bodied cars, washed and polished to perfection, with yellowed, dim headlights! You see dirty, unkempt, cloudy, scratched headlights on old cars and you see them on swanky new cars. It’s surprising that people go to the trouble of vacuuming their insides and hand-polishing their outsides while their car headlights look positively ugly.

LEDs produce a beam of white light that illuminates a larger area than xenon and much more than halogen. They are also more efficient, last longer, and allow for much more attractive design options (yes, they are also more expensive). It is because of all these pros that the fashion of mounting LED lights in cars that did not have them as standard is spreading…