batman419

I have the stock headlights 4 my 99 TL, which i'm tired of havin. Can some1 help me find new gud lookin 1's..... So I can have a new look on my whip.............

hANDYcaptd

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Pretty much your only options are a 02-03 front end conversion, or projector retrofit

You can find the projector retrofit in the DIY page. Not sure, but I don't think anyone has done 99-01 projectors.

jjashaa

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Razzi

bwahaha that's so gross josh. how do you always manage to find the nastiest pictures?

there's not a lot of aftermarket support for the 2nd gen TLs, and much much less for stuff like headlights. almost everything will have to be do it yourself

batman419

Yo those headlight r crazy..........do u know how i would be able to do that or buy those.............again those things r crazy...............

ftLauTL

i'd just black them out and maybe remove the orange reflector, get some 5000k bulbs or 6000

hANDYcaptd

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you can't really do much to outdated headlights and make it look good IMO.

Check the DIY page for the blacked out and cleared headlight.

Tay119

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http://www.yourhotcar.com/prod/Custo...dlights/17575/



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jjashaa

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^ you shitting me right? why spend $380 on something you can do with 5 hours and $20.

batman419

ok, dis may sound dumb but, wat and where the hell is dis DIY page... im new here.......... and he does have a point about me being able to do that blackin out myself 4 20 bucks.....and that blacking out wouldnt look rite on my car cuz my TL is white.....

phee

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black otu would look good on white.

and the DIY page is the thread in the main forum when you click TL.

it says "new DIY PAGE"

batman419

oooooh ok got'cha............

JRhodes88

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Go buy some cool eBay lights. I've heard those are great for fitment

Tay119

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i wasn't serious. but i was curious what everyone would say and obviously they weren't taken well

baddbenny

2000 TLP with project headlights - done by me - F*cken awesome! They get mad looks all the time!

Best 30 hours and $500 (included tools like a demel) I've ever spent! And it was fun doing it. If I was asked to do it again, could prolly do it in less than 20 hours

phee

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500 dollars? you have got to be kddng

twistedwedge

^^not real crazy about how that looks...sorry man.

OP: just black out your headlights..they will improve the look of your ride more than you think, and its much cheaper

nayaab88

for $500 you could pay someone else else to do it and save yourself 30 hours

hANDYcaptd

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Always loved the look of projectors, but the way the 99-01 headlights are, it doesn't look as good to me.

Its like...the highbeam housing is so small, makes the projector look...isolated? Hard to describe.

But that's just IMO, glad you like it.

jjashaa

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where's the fun in that? thats like paying somebody else to mod your car for you.

sounds lame.. paying somebody else to make yourself look good.. why not spend your own time and effort to make it your work to make yourself look good.

baddbenny

hahaha - find me someone willing to do this for $500 - with all new parts and paint - I'll buy the mod for you man...

baddbenny

[QUOTE=twistedwedge;10956895]^^not real crazy about how that looks...sorry man.

All good my friend - its a matter made strictly on opinions. She's a hottie in my eyes

Rockstar21

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i knew they still sold them... everyone was saying they stopped making them..

good find. its a steep price... but the upside is they have a clear reflector in place of the orange one so that when you signal people can still see it...

Dave408

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How do you remove the orange reflector?

TLin401

I would put a projector as the low and then paint the high yellow.

You can even black them out and then just paint the high yellow. I saw a Honda Accord coupe in a thread that painted the high yellow and it looked pretty bad ass.

adamlee05

These a very good quality/fitting housings.

BlackuraTL

I got mine from Atomic Street. They didn't stop selling them. Atomic just stopped selling everything and deleted his account on ebay.

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sen u r lights to me and ill through some LEDs in it, and collor mach u r housing, now that will me clean

CJITTY

Hey, those headlights came free when I ordered my Bedazzler kit for $29.99 + shipping and processing

fobstylez

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I just finished my retro like a month ago and it was way cheaper then that, you just have to search and wait for good deals. I bought an extra set of headlights for $65, thats for two headlights. then I bought a tsx headlight from a yunk yard for 20 bucks, because all the tabs were broken. Then the other tsx headlight I bought off ebay for 40. That puts me around 150 shipped, then I had to buy shrouds because I wanted it professional, that was like 60 shipped. Add on a few bucks for glue and screws/bolts, thats only 225 at most. But, imo well worth it, the output owns stock housing for sure.

baddbenny

Well you do get what you pay for - the only really used parts I bought were the donor TSX's off ebay for $125. Scored on a set of 2 month old OEM TL extra headlights for $100. New Philips D2S bulbs = $80, projector bezels = $65, paint work to color match NBP lenses = $50, New Dremel (didn't have one, a must to do the job) $60, Honda Bond and various nuts, bolts, washers etc. = $40 --- TOTAL just over $500
The feeling I get inside, every time I turn them on to take a cruise = PRICELESS!

fobstylez

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you do get what you pay for? Dude, we both put on used tsx projectors, the projectors sits inside the housing so when you take it apart, they look brand new. My shrouds were brand new, newly everything was near new when I put them on. But yes, a dremel is a big must, I would never do this if I didnt have a dremel. I'm sure just like benny, I got compliments all the time for my projector and hid fog all the time. I got one last night at 7-11. Do it, well worth any money you'll spend on it and time as well.

VuVewVoo

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on a difficulty rating from 1-10 how difficult would you rate to retro?

jjashaa

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12

haha.. it just takes time, patience and some measuring and so forth..

baddbenny

Yeah man - time for sure!
One thing to really keep in mind the whole time while planning and actually building is the need to be able to adjust the things...from a lot to the very little. A tiny bit of change makes a big difference 100 ft away! Can't stress that more...

fobstylez

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Benny is right on the dot, to do it, its really ez. To make it perfect, is quite hard. Because my headlights looks fine, but I still have to open them up to adjust. When I aligned it against a wall, it looked perfect, but like he said, 100ft away is a different story. I have to raise the beam up, but that is ez, just a matter of tighten a couple of screwed. On a scale of 1-10, putting them on is a breeze, maybe a 5-6, but the beam pattern/output, i say its pretty high up there. But eventually when I do another one down the road, it will be flawless. Would i suggest it to anybody else? HELL f-ing YEAH!

OntarioTL

Here is my set. I wont even mention how much it cost me to get done, but at least I know its one of kind






My buddy just got his quad projectors installed on his 03. I'm still waiting on him to send me pictures of the install. I did help afterall.

VoLLy

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Ive seen those quads, they're sweeet! love the shrouds he used for the quads, much more defined than the MDX bezels.

twistedwedge

Now that looks pretty darn good! Nice work!