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Old 04-11-2015, 03:24 AM
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Lightbulb Headlight upgrade.

Can't remember if I posted this before or not. I have been on a mission to upgrade my old w201 headlights for maybe 2 years and I've purchased everything from the Sylvania silver stars to LEDs and finally had the HID installation done into my old Bosch housing which blinded everyone from pedestrians to pilots. I then purchased a pair of Euro headlights from ebay which was a small step in the right direction, but still not exactly what I was looking for. Finally I ended up in the junk yard one day and while walking around looking for nothing in particular just random parts I thought BINGO! I'll make my own headlights. I kept the ebay housing and gutted it and I purchased some headlights from an early model Infiniti J30 (1997) with projector lights. I disassembled the lights and took out the projectors and used an angle grinder to cut them down to fit inside my ebay housing. I did a little rewiring and some more slight modifications and came up with the best pair of headlights out on the road today. My headlights are comparable to the Lexus LS430 width output stretching at least 4 lanes on either side and I was able to get rid of the blinding effect and provide an extremely crisp cutoff. Now, unfortunately I know a lot of guys on here may frown upon the idea that I changed the factory look of the car to do this, but my 25 year old car was in need of a facelift anyways. With this upgrade I was able to add my own custom light modifications. So with these lights I have 2 HID 9005 bulbs, a pair of halogen H3 bulbs, a pair of 2 80w H1 bulbs, and a pair of 9004 HID bulbs which I wired to all function independently for the most part. So I can either drive with regular halogens or switch to HID lighting. Here is a YouTube video of the lights in action and also a few pictures to go with it. https://youtu.be/xj2Bq_d1TgI
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