LED Headlight Upgrade and Bucket Repair on My Saab 900!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
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I hate repair jobs where you have to destroy things to do the work - it's a scary "well, no going back..." feeling. But great fix
My daily driver first car was an 02 9-3 hatch, I really hated those old gen 9-3 headlights. Replaced them with a morimoto universal kit, I had to open the headlights and remove material to fit the universal parts. The difference was AMAZING though, and up until I had to let the car go a few years ago they were working perfectly still. I was really sweating at the time though, I even considered buying some headlight replacements from ebay and using those vs messing with my only pair in case something went wrong lol.
I got to pick the color of the beams, I went with 4000k which is very white but not that horrible blue so many people liked to do back in the day, and because it was in a projector housing the light coming out of the headlights while visible to oncoming traffic gave less glare, and they threw a couple hundred feet further down the road than stock. One of my favorite projects just based off how much easier it was to see.
Definitely, lol. Only downside of this repair
gotta look further into this. By the way, Autopsy i am currently doing a crazy projekt on my own saab 900, i am swapping the instrument cluster from a saab 9000 into my saab 900
Nice! Definitely interested to see how that comes out when it’s done. Good luck!
Replaced the US DOT with E-codes and LEDs on my 91 SPG. Vastly improved night driving.
Awesome!
What LEDs did you use for the Ecodes?
@@OldRedSaab AUXITO off of Amazon.
Thanks for the video. The snow mobile bulbs the 900 take are pretty dim for sure and the LED's you installed look amazing.
Unfortunately bevinsee's site won't let me start my search by country so I can't even get started.
Sorry to hear about that - I’ll reach out them and ask what the issue may be. Others are saying the same. Here’s the link to exact bulb. Make sure enter “Autopsy11” at checkout for the 11% off! www.bevinsee.com/products/f31b-hb1-9004-led-headlight-lamp-bulbs?_pos=2&_psq=9004&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Now you don't get to enjoy the humorous jiggling of the beam with every bump in the road!
I bought the same set you put in your NG on the previous video and they work great, so I'll be off to find a set of these for the 9000T!
Lol nice!!
No mo jiggly jiggly....lol
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Looks good
Thanks!
New owner of a last year 900 Turbo, so loving your channel. Question, I did try to use the black circular retaining clip and broke one (the other, I figured out the led bulb unit that I purchased, comes apart and you can put it back together with the retainer clip sandwiched in it, so no prob). I know you aren't using the retainer but my LED has some looseness. Do you know where I can source that circular black retaining ring?
WBO 278 is a 9-5 sportwagon in Sweden!!
Yep! I believe the person who sent it to me still drives it - you can see it on their IG
for some reason the bevinsee site won't let me select the country to enter the car. what was the specific bulb model they sent you?
Sorry to hear about that - I’ll reach out then and ask what the issue may be. Here’s the link to exact bulb. Make sure enter “Autopsy11” at checkout for the 11% off! www.bevinsee.com/products/f31b-hb1-9004-led-headlight-lamp-bulbs?_pos=2&_psq=9004&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Perhaps silly question: how do the new LEDs affect your brights? Does it just make them super duper bright? Debating on installing them on my 900!
Tbh, I have not used the brights lol. I do not believe it makes the brights any "brighter" than the normal low beams, though
3D printing is AMAZING, but I'm always hesitant when it comes to replacing car parts with 3d printed. Like you said that one white clip broke when installing it, I think likely 3d printed parts won't last as long as OEM. Sometimes there's no choice, like for this situation here...
I'm really looking forward to fiberglass reinforced prints, I find that the fiberglass reinforced plastic bits of cars hold up way longer than abs or whatever other types of plastics.
Well see how they last. MCS makes incredibly high quality parts; some of them have metal sleeves, as I’m sure you saw. I’m pretty confident it’ll hooks up for a long time!
Did you post the exact LED model that you installed. I just spoke to my mechanic and he said H4 should be used. Bevinse sent me the 9004/HB1.
Hmm. I haven’t had any problems with mine in the months of them being installed
@@AutoAutopsy is that the model of lights you got? 9004/HB1?
Makes me miss my 900’s! So does Bevinsee have LED’s that work in a 2005 9.3? Can’t seem to find reliable info and tried two different sets which did the CANO blinking thing.
👍🏼😁 All of the LEDS will blink regardless without proper tech2 or Maptun LED programming. Heres a video with some more info! czcams.com/video/eC_ptwr__6I/video.htmlsi=aHhQsd_-VgISf3Bt
ive been contemplating doing an upgrade like this on my 2001 9-3 but the car was driven by an old man so they are super bright even tho they are halogen bulbs so i havent seen the value
If your current lights are bright, no need to do the upgrade imo!
Nice upgrade. 👏👏👏
Thanks! 👍
amazing thnx! are flatnose headlight the same parts or did they change things between flat and slant?
The flat nose are different, unfortunately. I don’t believe he makes a kit for the flat nose, but if you reach out to him, he might be able to assist or print something up!
I've been wanting to upgrade my 900 to LEDs. Their site doesn't seem to be cooperating tho
same here. if anyone figures out the bulb model please post.
Here’s the exact bulb model. You will probably have to manually enter my discount code since this isn’t the affiliate link: “Autopsy11” www.bevinsee.com/products/f31b-hb1-9004-led-headlight-lamp-bulbs?_pos=2&_psq=9004&_ss=e&_v=1.0
LEDs are cool, but I really desperately wish they'd offer them in 2700K, maybe 4000k. 5500K is just too blue, and 6500 is unbearable. I did a xenon retrofit on my OG 9-3 with 4000k, that was about as "white" as I ever wanted lights to be. Anymore I just stick with the bulbs because I find the nice glow of halogen is easy on my eyes... also color reproduction is amazing with halogen. Xenon and LED are often like 65% which means things look really muted and washed out, it can make a difference when spotting things on the side of the road.
I dunno - the halogens were unbearable. I couldn’t see anything at night if it was more than 20ft away. It was almost dangerous. Check the end of the video where I show how the light is distributed. I think it’s perfect imo!
@@AutoAutopsy I totally agree, that's why I had to upgrade mine with the projector retrofit, I just wish they made the color less blue. Blue actually refracts a lot, it's the hardest light wave for the human eye to pick up on... I guess it's an acceptable tradeoff to be able to see more than 100 feet in front of the car lol.
For as amazing as Saab was and all their quality and safety I feel like their headlights really suffered. The 9-5s had ok headlights with the two seperate bulbs for low and high, I really wish they'd done that with 900s and 9-3s.
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You can't have a new reg plate on an old car. Looks wrong
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DONT PUT LED IN HALOGEN HEADLIGHT!!!! If you do hope u get stopped... you are blinding everyone.... :(
Right? People flash thier brights at me but I can see very well
They’re aimed down. I said it multiple times in the video hoping to avoid these comments 💀😂 I’m not gonna get stopped. These headlights are still less bright than what comes on new cars!!
@@AutoAutopsy Hope so! 🤣🤣 did this on my Og 9-5 police flashed at me and everyone! Got messages from friends that i have to remove my LED or they will smash my headlights 💀🤣🤣! But i changed to led Ds1 on my 9-5 2006 with xenon. Thats perfect!
@@freeland2526oh man! Brutal…maybe they were aimed too high? Hopefully they didn’t end up getting damaged or smashed lol!
@@AutoAutopsy Changed it same day, i used them in the high beam. What a upgrade that is!
Your headlamps are DOT US Spec lamps.
They suck. What you did, though, is irresponsible, and dangerous.
Why?
Because DOT spec lamps have very poor beam control unlike the EU spec lamps.
EU spec lamps have a different lens (which are glass), and sometimes even have a different reflector which control the beam much, much better. They do not blind on-coming cars, and provide far superior side light beam which illuminates road signs on the right (left in RHD cars).
Now, by putting LED bulbs in the DOT lamps the glare will become much worse for the on coming traffic, and many people will think you are driving with your high beams on.
That is irresponsible, and dangerous.
If you were in Europe, the cops would pull you over in no time, and remove your license plate, until you remove the LED's.
Your only way to get more light out there is to replace the US spec lamps with EU spec types, and use the 55w quartz halogen or quartz iodine bulbs.
Lol come on…really? Calling what I did “irresponsible and dangerous” is overboard. 🤦🏻♂️ These lights, as stated in the video, are aimed properly and will not be blinding traffic. I drove the car on a cruise with a few friends over the weekend and asked that they confirm that from a different vehicle’s POV.
I guess it’s a good thing I don’t live in the EU. Cops here don’t do that trash! 🇺🇸🤣