Kia Niro EV Led Headlight Installation

I accidentally dropped one of those black fastener push pins, and it's lost. Does anyone know how to get replacements for that?

 

FYI, I measured these LED headlights with an illuminance meter and they are putting out about 1/3 to 1/2 the light of the stock halogen lamps. They also have a smaller area of illumination and quickly fall off into that 1/3 range. I have not tested them on the road yet - just in my garage. Will probably be sending mine back to Amazon and sticking with the OEM bulbs.

 

Do you have any idea how many watts you're saving by switching out the headlights, and perhaps the other lights?

 

I didn’t know this either! Is this the same for the 2017 Ex???

 

Replaced the courtesy lights and dome lights with these leds, now my interior lights won't go off for about an hour after opening the door and there is starting to be a burning smell (electrical) when I just opened the door. I would not recommend this for the interior lights. I replaced the headlights and am very pleased with them.

 

I was curious how much difference changing headlights from Halogen to LED would make in range/charging time so I went through the math:
Halogen bulb power 60W (source Walmart replacement bulbs)
LED bulb power 20W (specs on Amazon)
(60-20) X 2 = 80W
Typical long drive = 600 miles / 75 mph = 8 hr (assuming all night time driving, not including charge times)
80 W X 8 hr = 640 Whr
Kia Niro EV typical consumption 250 Whr/mile
640/250 = 2.6 miles of range gained
Additional charge time required: Est charge rate at 80% SOC = 25 KW = 88 mph est charge rate/60 = 1.5 miles/min
2.6 miles / 1.5 miles/min = 1.73 min or 104 sec extra charging time over the 8 hr trip.

The above makes assumptions about Whr/mile which may be much higher at 75 mph and/or with heat or AC on. And the charge rate may be higher than 25 KW especially if charging at less than 80% SOC. But as an order of magnitude exercise I think it tells us what we need to know: Changing to LED headlight bulbs will make a very small, hard to notice difference in the range or charge time. I am all about efficiency and cool tech, so I really like the idea of making this change. But from a cost or efficiency standpoint it may not be worth doing.

I didn't attempt to go through the numbers for the side lights/tail lights/license plate lights but since they are all much lower wattage bulbs I expect that the total difference for all of them would be much less than for the headlight bulbs.

 

Very interesting. We just purchased a 2019 EX Premium, which will be delivered next week. One of my concerns is the quality and brightness of the headlights. Haven't seen them in person (at nighttime) myself, but curious if others have replaced them with LED bulbs, if they had to replace the entire enclosure or if just bulbs can be swapped out?

 

Jayc1358, how are those bulbs lasting/working out for you? This link refers to product that is no longer available. Any idea what model replaces it? Thanks, Eric