My hid is not bright!!!! street lights even brighter than my lights, i can see lights from the car behind me.

look how the housing is not full.

 

looks fine in the housing..... if the lower portion were to be lighted up as well.. you'd have light beams shooting up.

you might want to open them up and clean the inside up cuz it looks like you have lots of condensation goin on.

or buy new headlights.

 

and.. you might want to look into this.


https://acurazine.com/forums/2g-tl-photograph-gallery-99/fun-sandpaper-580286/

 

Im living in condensation city myself but i still get good light output. Do I really gotta do the process all over again to stop the condensation problem?

 

if you're getting condensation in the headlight.. try talkin to your dealer?

tell them it keeps getting condensation.. say you have a faulty head lamp??
haha.. idk


i don't get any cuz.. well.. my car is a weekend car.

 

I wanted to identify the problem why lights from the housing only brighten up the top but not the bottom as well before i replace or sand down the cover

 

Naw i ripped em open and painted. Didnt seal them right, so I guess I gotta do it all over again.


I hate you more and more everytime you say your car is a weekend car lol... But that just means you dont get to enjoy it as much as we do haha

 

thats normal.. ish.. cant really tell in my pic.. but it lights up only top portion.. you probably have a dying ballast or bulb..


eh. i look forward to driving it on the weekends.

atleast i won't be putting 30-40+ miles a week.

i think i fill up my tank like.. every 3 weeks or something..

 

Is that a recent pic?

 

that one?

is last year..

eibach pro-kit..

full blacked housings with that ugly silver strip on the side..

18x8.5 +30 LE37 all around.

front and sides kits only. haha

4~ months before that.. it was stock.

 

time for the retro man! = D

 

would be cool and everything but i like the look of my stock headlights with half blacked and half cleared.

maybe as a fun project, i'll probably make one.

 

moisture in the housing is death to the bulbs, and if it drips down and out the vent/wire hole and onto the ballast...it kills that too

No Moisture inside the lens is the allowable amount

 

I knowwww, I gotta reseal asap. Can i just apply more sealant or should I reopen and scrape off old sealant and use new?

 

^jus reuse whats their and put more sealant around the edges..but yes reopen them and wipe them off and reseal...

 

use the Nissan OEM sealant stuff..

http://www.mynismo.com/products/?id=5577&rsku=0

and Silica Gel Desiccants

http://www.issm-iseb.org/b2b/pics/Si..._Desiccant.jpg


but.. in my honest opinion....

depending on how well you open them and how well you close them keeps them from getting condensation...

 

My condensation was gone in one day of it being in the sun, but Idnt want that prob anymore.

Correct if im wrong but do I? :

1. Re heat
2. open
3. while its still soft apply more sealant
4. seal?

 

^ if you're gonna put more sealant.. scrape off old stuff.

 

That's what I thought. Probably the safest way to go, I dnt wanna have to keep doing it with the old stuff, I thought I could get away the first time but I guess Im not that good.

 

i bet you hear that all the time......

 

^ lol, damn no comeback.

 

I followed these steps right here:

1st. 1500 grit- 10 minutes wet sanding
2nd. 2000 grit- 20 minutes wet sanding
(after the sanding you wont be able to see through the light at all, so dont worry)
3rd. 3M rubbing compound (rub it in hard, or use a buffer)
4th. Meg's Polish
5th. Meg's carnuba wax

All items can be found at autozone and it comes up to $30 total for all those items above.

I just cleaned my headlights and here is the result:





Took me about a half and hour but it was well worth it. Not a good image because it was about to storm here in Delaware.

But to tell you the truth maybe you should do the above and maybe your headlights will beam brighter.

 

try a Powerball or similar foam buffing tool that goes on an electric drill
Makes scratches disappear in minutes, saves your arms and hands
wax on wax off!

They make special plastic cleaner and polish- its softer than stuff for paint and does the job right and fast

 

op- the front of the car looks jacked up, fender bender? the lights might be pointed a bit upward and thats why your not seeing the road clearly, u can always adjust where the light output is gonna be. 10mm screw on the back of the housing towards the middle. make sure u got hid bulbs. the pics u posted are rough and hard to tell, i see white light on the garage door but green light on the lens? what temp are the hid bulbs. 4300k is stock, anything above 6000k-6500k is just reducing light output.