M T L T L

This happened suddenly one night when I noticed my driver side beam is not as intense as the passenger side and the cut off line is not very distintif. I thought maybe the bulb has reached its life's end. I swapped in brand new Morrimoto 5000K bulbs. They still need to burn in to reach its peak but its visible the problem is else where. Any ideas why ?
Note: the morrimoto is only in the driver side, passenger side is still oem

Carbon Legend

you need to be at least 25 feet from the wall to see the full sharpness of the projector. also make sure you bulb is properly seated. there have been some reports of morimotos with bulbs out of alignment so the return wire is not properly placed and can cause a blurry cutoff line.

M T L T L

The blurry cutoff line was there before I swapped in the morimoto bulb. Not only the cutoff is not sharp but light output and hotspot is not as intense as the right side.

HEAVY_RL

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its because you cannot have a navtool. LoL

M T L T L

Screw the navtool, I'll velcro a iPad over the nav screen

Carbon Legend

take a cereal box or a metal washer (something thin ) and make a bulb spacer and space the bulb back and see if that helps with the sharpness.

HEAVY_RL

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hahahaha

TampaRLX-SH

What you see are different focal points for the two beams, which is intentional. The illumination pattern is asymmetrical so that the drivers side beam will not blind approaching traffic. If both beams were focus to project exactly the same (and appear so on you picture) then both beams would be synched to shine too close (reducing downroad illumination) or too far (blinding approaching traffic).

M T L T L

I think I failed to mention that both beams were identical in intensity and distintiveness of the cutoff line was the same a month ago. It's just recently that I noticed the left side has gone dimmer n blurry. After swapping in new morimoto bulb, problem still exists so this leds me to think that either the bulb is not sitting or alligned properly inside the projector bowl or some other optical malfunction.

oo7spy

Optical malfunction for sure. Go visit your optometrist.

Carbon Legend

Tampa that illustration could also be that the passenger side beam usually sits higher than the driver side beam. and that illustration seams to fit more for Halogen lighting rather than HID lighting.

the chrome of the bowl could have started to tarnish.

Here is how the light output should appear evenly lit on both sides. passenger side slightly higher than the driver side

EL19

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is your headlight lense cloudy or scratched?

HEAVY_RL

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post pics man!!

ichi d

maybe the ballast is not putting out enough juice?

Carbon Legend

Ballast are either on or off there is no dimmer for them. so when they start to fail they will not fire, they will not dim

M T L T L

Yes, they're hazed n cloudy but both about the same

Here we go, iPhone pics...















Both lights are equaly hazy n cloudy. I doubt this can be the cause.

M T L T L

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I just found some old shot from last spring... here the lights look clean. There are about 6 months old.

Carbon Legend

thats a huge issue right there.. you need to restore those headlights. they will make your cutoff very blurry in that shape.

Think of it like a pair of sunglasses that are dusty or smudged with finger prints everything you see is just not clear. same thing goes for headlights.

M T L T L

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I hope its just that. I'll do that with a window tint next week.

oo7spy

Not a garage queen I suppose?

M T L T L

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Not at all... hopefully I'll put a ceiling over her within the next 2 years if I still have her.

oo7spy

Supposedly the UV rays are the culprit. I'm glad I can have mine covered at home and work. Legend #1's clear coat took a beating from the Texas sun and it was hard to watch.

M T L T L

Ok, the lights are done. They came out really good. Both sides are housing morimoto 5K bulbs. Im really impressed with them, specially for the price.
These are very good alternative for pricey oems.
The blured cutoff line is much less prominent now but a trained eye can see a difference between both beams. Driver side is still a little bit less sharper than passenger side n also a little bit dimmer.

Here are some some beamshots infront of white walls, the duplicates are HDR versions I uploaded also so u can better see the beam difference.

Carbon Legend

still looks like your too close to the wall. 25-30 ft from the wall should yield the best results for sharpness. if you want to make it sharper and increase light output you can do a clear lens swap.

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Clear lens

M T L T L

Carbon do u have a detailed documentation of ur headlight project ? I'm tempted to do a LS460R projector retrofit. In the meantime, what specific tool I can use to adjust aim of the projectors ?

Carbon Legend

No sorry I do not have much on my build. I have some new designs I'm working on for spring time I hope to get more pictures of the process I get in the zone and completely forget pictures.

The ls460 is far too large for our housings cannot go much bigger than the OEM projector.