Exclusive Auto Plus report on our AGM VISION LEDs and our story

Lighting and signal lights are increasingly using LEDs. We met Ludovic and Julien Andreau, founders of AGM Vision.

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Could you tell us the story of AGM Vision?

Maybe it all started with our father, a mechanic for 40 years. Our passion for cars is deeply rooted. We started by opening our own AGM garage where we obviously offered repair and diagnostics, but also engine remapping and aesthetic preparation. To be able to create our own LED brand, we took a lot of training to acquire the necessary technical background. We always want to move forward, that's our character. In addition to the garage, we were looking for an extra activity to set ourselves apart from the competition and bring added value to our clients. And in the end, the activity came to us! By constantly encountering problems with car lighting, especially with halogen lights, we launched a LED installation service. We quickly realized that standard products did not meet our expectations. Today, AGM Vision is the main activity of our garage with installation, but also the development and design of our own LEDs, which we also sell in our newly opened online store. AGM Vision LEDs carry a slogan that, for us, is a leitmotif: New Vision Of Reality.

What is the core business of AGM Vision?

The core business of AGM Vision is the creation of high-end products with unique quality, which provide more comfort when driving at night and therefore more safety for the driver, but also for others on the road. There is obviously also a certain idea of aesthetics. We have no limits. Our product range reflects this. Our lighting products adapt to all vehicles, whatever the lighting system. From 4x4s to family cars, including agricultural vehicles, motorcycles, supercars, and even race cars, we have a suitable product. And if we don't have it, we will make it custom in our laboratory. We can even now offer LEDs for classic cars with the famous yellow headlight light. Guaranteed retro effect! Our range is deep, with simple LED signal bulbs, position lights, indicators, brake lights, High Power LED kits for high beams, low beams, the additional headlights and LED bars even large ones for off-road use. We have gone even further by offering ultra-powerful LED lights for worksite safety. For a few months now, our expertise has been available in our online store with our range of LEDs, but also all our products such as error correction modules, for example. For our clients, it's the best way to benefit from our expertise without having to travel.

What is good lighting for a vehicle?

It must be precise, obviously, but it must also be dense. Often, we work on cars with lighting that is powerful at one point, but lacks density. This is dangerous, because your field of vision will be greatly reduced, resulting in poor visibility of the road and its surroundings. Density allows for homogeneous lighting across the entire light spectrum, better clarity, and enhanced vision to reveal the smallest detail of the road and its sides. Low density gives the impression that there are black spots in the light beam. Good lighting must be uniform and go far, especially on high beam. Let's also clarify, because it's one of the main questions from our clients, that LEDs are not more dangerous than halogen headlights and will not dazzle oncoming drivers. All the work we do in the laboratory obviously takes into account other road users. The AGM Vision products have been tested to avoid this issue, which simply comes from the poor quality of the products used, but also from poor optical adjustments.

Can you tell us about the advantage of LED lighting?

The advantages are numerous and it's no coincidence that they equip most new cars. The quality of the lighting is far superior to that of halogen bulbs, especially in terms of safety. Visibility and field of vision are significantly increased, with a range that can reach 300 meters. An LED lights up in a thousandth of a second at 100% of its efficiency. The other advantage is lower power consumption, up to 4 times less than halogen. This requires us to develop anti-error modules, available in our online store, because the car's electronics will trigger an alert, thinking the bulb is defective. The lifespan is unmatched: 2,000 to 5,000 hours for LEDs compared to 1,000 to 2,500 for xenon and between 200 and 600 for halogen.

AGM Vision is a laboratory, but is it also a test center?

The laboratory allows us to adapt a product to the reality of the road. For each client, we will test the LEDs to adapt them to their car. We start from the raw product and carry out all the necessary tests to adapt our product as ideally as possible to the car, but also to driving in real conditions. One of our tests consists of studying the headlight beam on a surface positioned four meters away. This allows us to measure the light intensity point by point. We compare with the original lighting to then optimize the LED lighting. We repeat the same protocol until we find the most suitable setting. Our approach is purely practical. We try, we test, and we keep the best solution without prejudging the result. To offer a high-end LED to our clients, we have tested more than a hundred to design the best possible product. All of our AGM Vision product range is made from these tests. We are equipped with a large number of specific devices: spectrometer (measuring colorimetry), luxmeter (measuring light intensity at a point) and integrating spheres of different diameters (measuring total light intensity). It's a real research and development laboratory entirely dedicated to the quality, reliability, assembly, and performance of AGM Vision products.

What are your projects for the coming year?

As we told you, the AGM Vision online store offers all its LEDs and a few other products. Our site specialized in LEDs will offer simple and fun tutorials so that everyone can install our LEDs to enjoy them optimally. For the rest, the goal is always the same: to offer the best LEDs on the market while remaining efficient and innovative.