While reading over on the Miata.net Forums to keep my Miata knowledge up to date I found a post that peaked my interest on LED headlights. Turns out they have now crept down to plug and play at affordable levels. Some one posted a link to a set on Amazon that was a mere $40. I took the bait and ordered a set. They arrived yesterday, so I spent 20 minutes in the garage putting them in.
This called for a drive in the dark, so a few minutes before the sun would set (which put it behind the Cascades, so no late evening glare) we backed out of the driveway and made a nice little 20 mile loop, around the south end of town through farm lands and along a bit of the west side the Upper Klamath Lake. The new headlights were not a holy sh*t, these are a fantastic upgrade, but the whiter color light was pleasing and they did seem marginally brighter. Maybe I’ll go ahead and get the high beams as well.
I would swear I’ve mentioned it here before (I looked and couldn’t find it), but I wish we could have the Masters Miata Club’s Bug Splat Rally here. Every time we take any kind of evening drive here, the front of the car returns literally plastered with bug carcasses and this would solve the usual lack of insects we experienced back in the south. Of course the bad thing would be picking out the car for the most bugs prize. I bet when we got home last night there were 78,000 splatted bugs on the nose of the Miata.
Coincidentally, the CTBNL’s odometer turned over 78000 somewhere on our drive.