Any Akkon LED headlight owners?

Thank you @tcjacado let me take a look.

 

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Haha just a girl, give yourself some credit!

 

Without being able to probe the lights or see what those wires are supposed to be feeding, I don't know of a way to solve for that. You might try changing the title of the thread (or starting a new one) asking if there are any users on here that own those lights. If there are, I'd bet they be willing to help figure out what the plug does.

 

@Jeffch lol ok ok! Just a girl needing some help! I am going crazy trying to find this part

@tcjacado I tried to post on the thread and said my account has to be 30 days old to be able to post on that thread.

 

I'm trying to not be too dark since you're a new member and it's important to be polite and welcoming. But those headlights, well, they aren't good and they aren't an upgrade. I would resell them or give them away or toss them myself. You're doing all this work to downgrade the performance of already poor performing headlights. OEM LED is the only upgrade and it's expensive.

Put some Philips H9 bulbs in the low beam (remove green plastic in the H11 connectors and trim the metal tabs on the bulbs if you have to) and call it good to go. There isn't much point in spending so much time and energy only to make things worse than they were before.

 

It's @crashnburn80 who, time permitting, confirm that these headlights are not an upgrade.

 

Agreed. I got a ‘17 and I bought a buddies morimoto setup. Which are nice lights, however I must be going blind cause I think it’s less light than I was getting from my oem ones. Hell I have to run these on hi-beam just so they will throw the light far enough.
I mean they look cool with all the extra bling, but I can’t see shit.

 

@daveeasa thank you for the feedback, that's probably going to be what I am going to have to do since I can't use them. I appreciate everyone on here giving me feedback and helping me out

 

thank you I should have looked!

I’ve done the after market crap oem works the best and do not leak!

 

This is because the lights are an improper flawed design, as covered in the Morimoto review. All OEM lights have uplight, light above the cut off at reduced intensity so you can see beyond your low beam cut off. The Morimotos (from Taiwan) and most all cheap Chinese headlights do not. This creates a high contrast cut off with very bright light at the cut off and absolute blackness above it, effectively blinding you with your own lights so you cannot see anything beyond the low beam cut off. Which is why you feel the need to always drive with the high beams on so you can see far enough, because that is placing light above the cut off. The Morimoto lights are not OEM quality or an OEM grade design, they are a downgrade for this reason. OEM lights are significantly superior.

@mlopez86 This is good advice. The lights are not worth the effort and will be a significant downgrade over stock, which is not recommended. A simple bulb upgrade as mentioned will provide significant improvement of your OEM halogen assemblies, and if you want the very best performance OEM LED is the way to go. They are not inexpensive, but they are the absolute best lights available for 3rd Gen. Another thing to consider is that if you live in a cold weather region where snow is a concern, LED lights will not clear snow and can pack over rendering them useless. In areas where regular snow fall is a concern halogens are a better route as the heat generated will clear snow, especially with the H9 upgrade.

 

Would you say going back to the oem LEDs would be the best plug and play? Or do you have another vender your recommend? These have got to go. I unfortunately don’t have my OEM lights anymore.

I know you’re the guru on lights, I have read thru a lot of your threads and posts.

 

Oof. Did you swap your OEM LEDs for the Morimotos?? The OEM LEDs are the best lights for 3rd gen by far, nothing else compares. Unfortunately if you swapped your OED LEDs for literally anything else it will be a huge downgrade.

 

He's a '17 so I assume his OG headlights were TRD Pro Halogen ones. Unless @Built2Ride indicates differently. I'm guessing he might be confused on LED DRL vs OEM LED which would have come out in 2020 and not been original equipment on his 2017.

 

So I got more pictures if this helps? AKKON reached back out to me and said they don’t sell replacement parts. @Puppypunter

 

What trim level is your truck? SR, SR5 or TRD?

 

@daveeasa SR5

 

PIC 3

This is either high or low beam

PIC 4

Can you get a picture of the wires coming out of this plug?

PIC 5

this is either high or low as well

PIC 6

This is where your turn signal will plug in.

PICS 7, 8, 9, and 10

These are the other part of the puzzle. I know what type of plug they are, but I don't know how they all tie together. I know from the pictures you first provided, the missing harness section matches the plugs in PIC 4 and PIC 7-10. That part is PIC 9 looks like a driver or resistor of some type. Resistor would be my guess. But I am not sure how it ties into this. Is there only one of those pieces in PIC 9?

 

They don't sell replacement parts because they don't make the lights. They are just re-labeled imports from China that they are selling at a high markup to US consumers, so they can only get a complete set not the individual components without cannibalizing another set. Very common practice on off-brand LED companies.

 

Since you have them, may as well plug in and observe. DRL is the one thing I suspect you won’t have.