Looking for advice on upgrading hB3 bulbs on my Freelander 2 MY 2014. Current bulbs don’t seem that bright and wondered if certain bulb upgrades might be too powerful.

Stick HB3 in the search section mate, that's where I went and found tons of advice

know what you mean about the lights mind..  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

As above They are diabolical but with uprated bulbs tending to blow and splatter the inside of the lens I stick with standard bulbs and the one I so far have had to swap in the MY13 it came from Andre Page for sensible money. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Not sure what bulbs are on mine, not had to delve in there yet. Having read the horror stories on here, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of light on dark roads. The car had two MOTs in October, before I bought it, and neither mentioned light issues, however I have had a few people flashing at me, so I think they are set a wee bit too high. For now I am keeping the adjuster set at half-way, which has stopped the flashing, and raise them when I am out on quiet country roads at night - seems like a good compromise! 2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel

Osram night breakers seem to be among the best around. My Son just changed his HB3's whereas mine are H11's, & H7 for the high beam.
Just bought a set of H11's, but not fitted yet, will update when done!

Worms,Most of the complaints about poor headlights relate to MY13 onwards which only have a single bulb fitted that does both dip and main beam. An electric shutter partially covers the bulb to give dipped beam then moves to uncover the full bulb when switched to main beam. The bulbs seem to have a short life span which has been attributed to the shutter covering the bulb thus causing it to overheat. Earlier models have the more familiar setup of 2 separate bulbs for dip and main beam and are ok in most peoples opinion.

Ah! That explains it!  2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel

Get a pair of xenon headlamps and have an Indy amend the CCF  MY14 Kahn Converted Dynamic - Fuji White Ebony/Pimento Interior
MY15 Xenon Headlight Conversion

MY17 RRS SVR - Estoril Blue Cirrus/Ebony 🪣💺’s

Dondiddy, cheers for that as I was unaware of that, makes sense now.  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

Happy to have helped!

some high street motor factors (the ones with big orange signs with black writing) are starting to refuse to sell higher output HB3 to LR/RR owners due to the bulbs exploding or melting. I had to go to LR dealer for new ones at £36 pair but they really aren't that great at all.

LR are supposed to be looking into the issue but as yet ive not received any other info on their response

Guys.... Land Rover released a Technical Bulletin about blowing bulbs. Common I believe and only when I was on my third set did I find out about the upgrade. Technical Bulletin basically says that if bulbs are replaced from dealership and don’t last a year then the vehicle should be given additional resistive cables fitted between bulb and wire. The Bulletin only applies to bulbs fitted by dealer and oem bulbs. I just as recently with the Aberdeen dealership had heated discussion as I followed their advice and paid for two oem bulbs to be fitted at my cost. And within the year returned the vehicle back with the blown bulb. After heated discussion in the showroom I purchased both resistive cables myself at cost of £64 and fitted them that day. After talking to the Aftermarket Director yesterday my grievance is that I believed I followed the instructions by Land Rover and Dealership only to be charged for the upgrade to stop my bulbs from blowing. I’ve worked in manufacturing and as far as I’m concerned this is a Land Rover manufacturing defect that I’ve had to pay to fix. Doesn’t warrant a recall but certainly a free upgrade, certainly not a cost to the customer. Only certain models affected.

Technical Bulletin is LTB00841V2 and released in March 2016 which superseded a previous version.

Call you’re dealer and see what they say. The Aberdeen dealer and Land Rover for me are pretty clueless, well the two guys I was dealing with. They thought I was concerned about bulb costs when I was concerned I was paying to fix a manufacturing defect that Land Rover clearly knew about.

Chris

Thats very interesting ( and annoyance aimed at LR)

One of my OEM bulbs bulb after 18 months from new. I would have taken it to a dealer but I assumed this was a one off and wouldnt be covered by dealership warranty. Its well out of warranty now of course.

I later changed to Osram Nightbreakers and one of those blew after a year.

Do you have a part number for resistance cable ?

Might be able to get them cheaper than £64 if I can find the specs. Some sort of ballast resistor I presume.

Anyone know the specifications? Jules

Part no for the cable is LR081691. Two are required.

How is the 'Resistance cable' configured in series or parallel to the bulb ?

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