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California98Civic · 01-04-2012, 12:20 AM

The Leaf has LED headlights? That's a surprise to me. I thought they did not exist. At 50w per vehicle, that beats my HID system by 20w. And apparently the whole headlamp was molded so that there is no lens, collector, or reflector... "a single thermoplastic part" (1)... so maybe the bulge is partly, also, about functionality of the light as a light?

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California98Civic Cyborg ECU Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Coastal Southern California Posts: 6,299 Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe Team Honda 90 day: 66.42 mpg (US) Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike 90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US) Thanks: 2,373 Thanked 2,172 Times in 1,469 Posts	The Leaf has LED headlights? That's a surprise to me. I thought they did not exist. At 50w per vehicle, that beats my HID system by 20w. And apparently the whole headlamp was molded so that there is no lens, collector, or reflector... "a single thermoplastic part" (1)... so maybe the bulge is partly, also, about functionality of the light as a light? __________________ See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.