bruistopher

I'm hearing a lot of talk about HID projectors, retro fit and stuff. I'm kinda unfamilar with these terms and would like to know what they mean.

I know one thing for sure 99-03 Acura TL's come with HID, but is ours projection or what, what kind of housing our the bulbs in and what is cut-off or shield cut off?

Rockstar21

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we have HID bulbs without projectors. they are in a square/squarish reflective housing with the 99-01 and 02-03 having differences in the design

fobstylez

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Thats my headlights with a tsx retro fit. So 99-03 does not come with projectors, and projectors does pretty much what its called, projects your light. So it takes your headlight and projects the output, making it more intense. A cut off line is a clear visual line formed by your headlight output. Regular housing just sprays it out there and fades into the distant, projectors has a shield inside the housing that cuts the top part of the light, making a cut off line.



Just like the picture above, that is a cut off line. When you are driving and there is a car in front of you and you can see it changing colors, like from white to blue to purple, that is probably because he is hitting some bumps and the cutoff line is shifting up and down, so you see variations of the line. anyways, thats what it means.

JterrorC

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i wish i had extra headlights around....i would def hav started this....still lookin for a spectacular deal to get started

fobstylez

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Just surf ebay until a deal comes up, happens all the time. You just have to wait. And if you want to go cheap then e46 projectors from a 3 series goes for fairly cheap.

fsttyms1

This is something i wouldnt go cheap on and would get good projectors/glass

bruistopher

OH thanks now its more clear to me! So the 3rd generation Acura's must have a projection housing and the 2nd generation has a reflective housing. So the 2nd generation doesn't have a cut off line at all...hahah I actually would pull up to a wall as posted in the pic above and be proud that I have a cut off line but really i don't.

So the only benefit the projector housing has is that it makes the HID light sharper and intense?

JterrorC

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i hav the projectors...jus need extra head lights

winhansse

I'm doing retrofit on my 99 headlight and cut off look great without the stock headlight cover on but as soon as the cover on I lost alot of light output and cutoff sharpness maybe like 50%. How about yours? Any diffrent with or without headlight cover.

fobstylez

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Its a bit toned down but I had semi foggy headlights so I polished them out and they are better now. Make sure you aim them correctly. When you are aiming them, dont just aim them at 5-10ft, that will do you no good. You have to go out on the street and see, because I did the samething, I measured from the end of the garage to the wall and when I use them at night, they were way too low. just fyi

winhansse

What projector and light bulbs do you use ? Do you have any pics of cut off from your lights? I think I need puff alot to improve the sharpness. I think our light cover is not design for projector lights what a let down after all the hours of work.