So it's not just on my end where it's slow, good to know.
Regarding headlights, I love my H1 & H4s. LEDs are too modern except for tail lights but I don't know if anyone is making E9 units. LED tailight systems are available for round and square 2002s.
I get the sentiment around this subject, and LED's looking too new. I think that you are referring to the color temperature of the LED bulb. Many people associate LED's with bright white or blue temperatures. There is a vast range of options with color temps now. When you buy bulbs, you need to pay attention to the look that you are going for.
When LED's hit the home market the early bulbs were all bluish white, weren't dimable, and had lackluster performance. LED's will be the standard for new automotive bulbs moving forward, and the technology has improved greatly in the past five years alone. I've switched out almost all of my incandescent and and CFL bulbs at home with warm LED's. My bathroom fixture went from 375w to 25w with similar color temp and brightness. Just like an old car, I figure it's less current running through my 55yo home wiring.
I've always been into lighting and electrical upgrades. My VW had 55w/100w H4's with 130w H1 pencil beams. I used three 30a bosch relays, one for the low, one for the high, and one for the driving lights. I upgraded my poor jeep sealed beams to IPF H4's, and shoehorned in an OEM 160a alternator from a 5.9 Durango.
I agree with the OP that it's nice to be able to get a lighting improvement without upgrading the harness. One can have similar color temperatures with the light, but with newer looking bulb ends popping out of the back of your housing. Alternatively one can add a non-factory wiring harness so that you can run high wattage bulbs. I'm leaning towards LED's. I have had a Bosch relay fail while moving across the country. Rather than troubleshooting the relays on the road, I just reverted to factory wiring at a rest stop in Iowa. I suppose I could have played musical chairs with the relays but I didn't want to deal with properly setting up 12 pins in the dark.
