Product Description

The PIAA Platinum 1100X Dichroic Driving Lamp is one of the industry's smallest dichroic driving lamps, with the 1100X compact design giving you versatility without sacrificing performance. Offering performance like HID at a fraction of the cost, each lamp uses a dichroic 12V 55=85 watt Super White bulb, giving you 85 watts of light for only 55 watts of power. It also features durable silver PPS housing, a chrome-plated aluminum trim ring, and a glass lens. The lamp kit comes complete with two lamps, pre-assembled wiring harness, relay and switch. This product is covered by a limited warranty (bulbs excluded from warranty).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6714 in Automotive
• Color: Chrome
• Brand: PIAA
• Model: 1192
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Compact design of 1100X driving lamp gives versatility without sacrificing performance
• Driving beam: dichroic 12V 55=85 watt Super White bulb
• Features durable silver PPS housing, chrome-plated aluminum trim ring, and glass lens
• Includes 2 lamps, pre-assembled wiring harness, relay and switch
• Backed by limited warranty (bulbs excluded from warranty)

Customer Reviews

Motorcycle lighting extraordinaire
I have mounted a pair of these on my BMW R1100RS. They complement the existing headlight by creating a triangle of bright lights, which makes the motorcycle conspicuous and provides oncoming vehicles with a visual reference for depth perception. Thus they are a safety feature. At night, they are significantly brighter than the headlight, and the beam pattern provides excellent visibility of either straight or curvy roads. The 110W power demand is manageable for my alternator. The units were easy to install, and the PIAA literature is clear and easy to understand. I have two minor criticisms. First, the housings are made of relatively flimsy plastic. My previous PIAA lamps had a heavier plastic housing but one was still broken by a stray rock. I would have preferred a metal housing. Second, the lamps are not easy to mount if you don't happen to have a rigid horizontal surface handy that you can drill into. I wish PIAA made mounting kits to allow mounting to vertical surfaces or round bars. Still, I would buy these again based on what the competition is currently offering.

lights but wrong bracket
The lights seem to be the same as are shown for various "kits". However, I can find no specifics describing what is in various "kits" for different applications, and the lights are apparently the same for each. Is the wiring harness different in different "kits" ? Who knows? No specifics are offered. Are the mounting brackets different? Who knows? Only hard -to-see pics are offered. Apparently the brackets are different. I ordered lights to mount on a BMW R1200GS. I ordered the mounting bar from PIAA. It was fine, but the bracket that came with the light kit would not work with that light bar. So can I just buy the correct brackets? Who knows? Apparently not. Can't find that on PIAA website. This kind of hassel and frustration is not worth it. Amazon would onloy allow me to return the product but offered no assistance with making the bracket situation right. Are the lights good? Who knows? Can't mount them to see if the work....

Good lighting but not durable
I have a set mounted on a KTM 950 Adventure. They were the only aux light housing that was small enough for my application but I think I need to look for something else that's not as fragile. I've gone about 20k miles of mostly on road touring but lots of dirt/gravel roads as well with these lights.

I've had the 1100x on my bike for about 14 months and I've gone thru 3 bulbs and a left housing because the inside wiring fell apart and you can't just replace the wire. The only good thing was that PIAA warrantied the bulbs and housing but it doesn't really help when I'm riding on a backroad at night to find that I only have one driving lamp. Only one of the bulbs burned out. The connecting pins on bulb of the other two broke at the base. The replacement bulbs are $40 each. Glad they were warrantied but it's silly that they couldn't just use H3 or other similar bulb.

The reflectors are not very good either. They just throw a lot of light everywhere. There is no cut-off so you can blind oncoming traffic. Before I upgraded my headlight to HIDs, I rode with the PIAAs on all the time but they were pointed about 15' in front of the bike. Now I have them adjusted normally but don't use them unless there's very little traffic.

When another bulb goes out, I'll be looking to replace the whole system rather than pay $40 for bulbs that will surely fail in another 3-6 months with limited use.