Is there any place to get some decent retrofit headlights that don't cost $1k? I've found old posts about yuke who turned into retrofit factory, found that on FB but haven't heard back so I'm assuming he is no longer in business.
Retrofits?
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I did a retrofit on my 98. Let me say, opening them up is not an easy task. I've done 3 retrofits in the past and this was by far the hardest set to open up. I broke one set of headlights trying to get them open.
Having said that, once you get them open it's a piece of cake. No cutting or modifications necessary.
Having said that, once you get them open it's a piece of cake. No cutting or modifications necessary.
Yea, they look similar to the ones I got from 1a auto. My car came with non OEM style lights so I wanted to find the stock ones.
I don't have the patience to open them up lol, I've tried opening lights before and it never works out in the end. It's too bad no one does them, like I said I've looked at retrofit source, and a few others I can't recall and they want about 700-1000 for them.
I did mine for probably around $450, and that includes 2 pairs of headlights.
That's with a Morimoto Mini H1 kit from TRS, motoho1ders, and the 2 sets of lights.
If you have the patience you can do it pretty cheap.
Have you already checked here?
Yea I checked there, and they're out of stock, which means according to their site they're no longer taking orders for them.
I did A Bi-Xenon HID retrofit on my Jeep with parts from The Retrofit Source years ago and they still work great. I reused my headlights (after wet sanding, polishing, and coating) and the parts were around $200.
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If you're on Facebook look up Madd Retros owner Brandon Madrigal. He makes custom headlights that are much cheaper than $1,000. He does great work, too.
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Yea I've actually been emailing someone from there. I got a quote and its not much cheaper than that lol.
Wow! I thought I saw him lost a pair of headlights for $550. I guess I was wrong.
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Yea, I was put off by the quote since the site says 475 haha.
Well, ended up emailing quite a bit with him and settled on just getting them. I didn't do anything fancy, just an HID setup, though I would have liked LED but couldn't justify the extra price of them. Should have them 1st week of April hopefully.
DEPO projectors with 9011 and 9012 HIR bulbs. HIR=snow plow bulbs and fit in the 9005/9006 slots with a little tab trimming.
If you can still find them anyway... best headlights I ever had on any Mustang...
If you can still find them anyway... best headlights I ever had on any Mustang...
I had a set of those. The output was junk compared to a set of retrofits. Not to mention they just don't look good.
Did you have the HIRs in them? They were definitely crap with the bulbs that came with them.
I tried oem style bulbs, then tried a moshimoto HID kit.
No matter what bulb you use, they are just ugly headlights.
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