FG G6e MK2 headlights dying quick?

[biddie_fiddler]

6 minutes ago, Ezy2Confuze said:

I bought the LED upgrade kit from Superior vision a month back but am yet to fit it as one of the headlights has something caked onto it, so I'm just going to hit both of them with one of those restoration kits first.

 

https://superiorvisionaustralia.com/product/fordfalcon/

 

– 2x LED High Beam Bulbs
– 2x LED Low Beam Bulbs
– 2x LED Fog Lights Bulbs
– 2x LED Parker Bulbs
– 2x LED License Plate Bulbs
– 2x LED Reverse Bulbs
 

So I'm going to fit that over the Christmas break

 

Succcch and expensive kit though, which is very frustrating.

Nothing special about them, they're good quality don't get me wrong.

Just over-priced

[Ezy2Confuze]

Yeah I found them being recommended in a Youtube video and I CBF'ed organizing cheaper alternatives or having to buy separate items from different sites and paying courier fees each time.

[lykag6]

2 hours ago, k31th said:

Just get new globes and replace them yourself. It's piss easy and need not be done by a mechanic.

but the thing is I don't get how that handprint thing can effect the globes 9-10 months later...the reasoning doesn't make sense at all

 

2 hours ago, Ezy2Confuze said:

Do you happen to get the headlight fault error pop up a few times a month?  Or do both the low and high beams fail for the globe or just the low beams?

 

For two years I chased an issue whereby I would get headlight fault errors when turning the car off - it would only occur randomly about 2 -3  times a month - and roughly every three months the low beams would fail, sometimes both globes, sometimes just the one. Once it was fine for 6 months.

 

I replaced the globes with Nava and Phillips crystal visions multiple times and neither resolved the issue.

 

Then one day I thought stuff this and replaced them with the cheap on sale Calibre brand from Supercheap and they - touch wood - have not failed in nearly 2 years.

 

The only thing I did was change the globes, the battery is an Optima yellow top - installed by the auto electrician when my battery was moved to the boot - and has been fine each time it's been tested and only the low beam elements failed.

 

It was really doing my head in, hence why I went the cheap brand, because if I had to keep replacing them, stuff spending $100 or more a pop doing so.

 

Also each time I replaced them, I always wore gloves because of the reason given by K31th.

nope no issues like that man

[k31th]

1 hour ago, Ezy2Confuze said:

I bought the LED upgrade kit from Superior vision a month back but am yet to fit it as one of the headlights has something caked onto it, so I'm just going to hit both of them with one of those restoration kits first.

 

https://superiorvisionaustralia.com/product/fordfalcon/

 

– 2x LED High Beam Bulbs
– 2x LED Low Beam Bulbs
– 2x LED Fog Lights Bulbs
– 2x LED Parker Bulbs
– 2x LED License Plate Bulbs
– 2x LED Reverse Bulbs
 

So I'm going to fit that over the Christmas break

They look the goods, but if you do the shopping yourself you can get it all a lot cheaper than they offer as a full-blown service... but it has it's convenience that it all comes at once.

[lykag6]

btw you got a good guide or tutorial on how to do the replacements? I've got more standard ones lying around from ages ago so I can do em tmoro. Do I need to take the front bumper off?

[k31th]

Just for low-beams you just take the dust-cover off and undo the clip and unplug wiring connection to the globe then pull the globe out then reverse the process. It's in your owners manual, basically, since they expect the lowest-common-denominator owner to be able to do it

[lykag6]

hahahaha ok gotcha, cheers man

[Para045]

11 hours ago, Ezy2Confuze said:

I bought the LED upgrade kit from Superior vision a month back but am yet to fit it as one of the headlights has something caked onto it, so I'm just going to hit both of them with one of those restoration kits first.

 

https://superiorvisionaustralia.com/product/fordfalcon/

 

– 2x LED High Beam Bulbs
– 2x LED Low Beam Bulbs
– 2x LED Fog Lights Bulbs
– 2x LED Parker Bulbs
– 2x LED License Plate Bulbs
– 2x LED Reverse Bulbs
 

So I'm going to fit that over the Christmas break

I put a set of these 60W 18000LM H7 LED Car Headlight Kit  in my 2012 FG XR6T about a year and a half ago as I was having issues with the RH main beam blowing constantly 😖

Haven't had an issue since putting these in and the light output is much better, might get some more for the high beams soon come to think of it 🤔 

 

9 hours ago, k31th said:

Just for low-beams you just take the dust-cover off and undo the clip and unplug wiring connection to the globe then pull the globe out then reverse the process. It's in your owners manual, basically, since they expect the lowest-common-denominator owner to be able to do it

On my FG II they don't have a clip like the older Falcons or the missus's 07 Terra, they have a circular clip arrangement similar to these >  as part of the globe holder that turn and hook on tabs in the HL housing to hold in the globes 🙄

I had to cut the boot that goes around the clip/globe holder to get it out of the boot and get the wires out as well and refit it around the new globes as they have that "fan" section 😕

I did once get a warning on the dash going through the Graham Farmer Freeway tunnel but haven't had it since 😲

[k31th]

I dunno about you, but in that link it looks like a "metal retaining clip" to me... but whatever you want to call it, same same, in my eyes at least for this application. I have replaced low-beam globes in all versions of falcon from EF->FG-X and it's basically the same arrangement but very slightly different across years, but saying "clip" as-in the little bit of metal that actually holds the bulb into the headlight housing is enough to explain for all of these applications, I would have thought

 

yeah, the fat-butt-section of the aftermarket alternatives like HID and LED can get in the way of dust covers and some fiddling/modifying can be required, but it's usually fairly straight-forward.