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My Headlights are Awful. Suggestions?
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<blockquote data-quote="scottydsntknow" data-source="post: 16197890" data-attributes="member: 79824"><p>Except a PROPER retrofit will have a dead even cutoff line which will reduce glare and any issues with oncoming traffic. Retrofit= baking open the housings, cutting the back of the light and installing actual properly designed aftermarket HIDs or OEM HIDs from another vehicle. Properly aim them and set the cutoff and go. The issue with HIDs is when someone installs a "plug and play" HID bulb set in place of the stock bulbs without doing anything else. And then, as I mentioned before, you get into issues with these $40-$60 kits not only being problematic for those reasons but the quality/materials is shit. No quartz glass, no laser aligned bulbs, no actual QC to verify correct output of the bulb or that the ballast is ok. And THEN you get into the higher wattage kits that are sold because ppl think that their 55w kit has to be so much better than the same 35w kit when all that is doing is overdrawing the stock wiring and not actually producing anymore light. </p><p></p><p>So yeah... /rant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scottydsntknow, post: 16197890, member: 79824"] Except a PROPER retrofit will have a dead even cutoff line which will reduce glare and any issues with oncoming traffic. Retrofit= baking open the housings, cutting the back of the light and installing actual properly designed aftermarket HIDs or OEM HIDs from another vehicle. Properly aim them and set the cutoff and go. The issue with HIDs is when someone installs a "plug and play" HID bulb set in place of the stock bulbs without doing anything else. And then, as I mentioned before, you get into issues with these $40-$60 kits not only being problematic for those reasons but the quality/materials is shit. No quartz glass, no laser aligned bulbs, no actual QC to verify correct output of the bulb or that the ballast is ok. And THEN you get into the higher wattage kits that are sold because ppl think that their 55w kit has to be so much better than the same 35w kit when all that is doing is overdrawing the stock wiring and not actually producing anymore light. So yeah... /rant. [/QUOTE]
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