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alanwestport 11-20-2013 04:59 PM

They were $995!!!!! Yikes right!?! They come in black and chrome. Obviously I thought that black would be the way to go on a black car. The replacements were plug and play front and back. The new headlights took a bit more "encouragement" to lock into place. Unlike the stock ones which once in the correct place made a little pop sound and all was good, the aftermarkets required about 2-3 times the leverage to pop. Not a big deal but a little nerve racking at first. I never want to force something to make it fit. Otherwise a very nice factory look and feel. As for the nozzles, no such luck. There is no way to mod it since the corner is not a cut out. Motor mounts will have to wait because I am considering making the white LED's along the bottom daylight running lights. I am going to have to do a bit of creative wiring but it looks pretty cool to have the white LED's on and then turn on the blinker. They fade on and off when the blinker starts and then stops. Check out this youtube vid.

JSavinoJr 11-20-2013 05:08 PM

Looks great. I have the headlights as well as the first LED taillights that came out. Love the look they give to the car. Did you add HID'S to the head lights? I put a set in the main beam and the fog lights.

alanwestport 11-20-2013 09:42 PM

Thanks. I'm pleased with two exceptions. First the price, which I'm almost over. The second is the high beams. A beat weak. I will go HID once I've done my research. I've seen pics where people have melted and discolored their factory lights by going too big on the HID. I don't want to make that mistake. What luminosity did you go with and did you choose the large or small ballast? Is bi xenon an option? I don't know. Need to research, but yes an upgrade is in order.

Empyreal 11-21-2013 09:15 AM


Originally Posted by jateshk (Post 3985052)
My problem on the headlights are that my headlight have the jet sprayer. I don't know if I want to lose that.

I have those as well, and in 18 months, have probably only used them about 2-3 times, and just for the novelty, more than anything else.

alpine003 11-21-2013 04:43 PM

Unless you drive your car in the snow/mud or never wash your car headlight washers aren't really needed or useful IMO.

Dennis C 11-21-2013 04:47 PM


Originally Posted by alpine003 (Post 3985914)
Unless you drive your car in the snow/mud or never wash your car headlight washers aren't really needed or useful IMO.

That depends on where you live. If you drive on mountain roads in the winter like I do, then headlight washers are an absolute must have item. We get a thick coating of road grime on the front of our cars out here, and the washers make a huge difference.

JSavinoJr 11-21-2013 04:48 PM


Originally Posted by alanwestport (Post 3985369)
Thanks. I'm pleased with two exceptions. First the price, which I'm almost over. The second is the high beams. A beat weak. I will go HID once I've done my research. I've seen pics where people have melted and discolored their factory lights by going too big on the HID. I don't want to make that mistake. What luminosity did you go with and did you choose the large or small ballast? Is bi xenon an option? I don't know. Need to research, but yes an upgrade is in order.

I went with 6000k Slim HID's,and 3000k Yellow slim for the fog light. I don't think you can go Bi Xenon because there are 3 bulbs in the headlight assembly.

buzzm 11-21-2013 04:54 PM


Originally Posted by jateshk (Post 3985052)
My problem on the headlights are that my headlight have the jet sprayer. I don't know if I want to lose that.

If you ever try and use them when driving more than 10 mph there's a good chance you will lose them anyway lol

alanwestport 11-21-2013 06:12 PM


Originally Posted by JSavinoJr (Post 3985921)
I went with 6000k Slim HID's,and 3000k Yellow slim for the fog light. I don't think you can go Bi Xenon because there are 3 bulbs in the headlight assembly.

Thanks J. I'm going to go that route. I might hold off on the fog lights. We don't get a lot of fog here in Orange County California, in fact I drove in fog a couple of weeks ago for the first time in at least 5 years and the stock fogs worked fine.

carrera4slakem 11-22-2013 12:32 PM

looks great!

r38johnson 11-22-2013 02:14 PM

Led Hi beams
 
I bought a set of led blubs for the high beams I put them in and they didn't work, moved them the fog lights. They worked went back and the high beams and low didn't work, found out the light switch went out, replaced the light switch, left the Led's in the fog lights, will try Led's later, when I figure out what caused the switch to bad. The switch worked on every thing except the head lights, hi and lo beam both sides, every thing worked before installing the led's in the high beam sockets.


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