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my oem stuff crapped out finally and i bought the xb35 kit from retro fit for my car. dealers prices in nj are crazy. 255 for igniter 460 for inverter plus 206 to install and 135 to diagnose. I am wondering if anyone has any pics of their set up. I wasnt expecting to have to seal the headlight but it is what it is. I can do it and have some resources at my expense. tool wise. thanks in advance.
it has the pigtails so it's plug and play to the old input. I'd just leave the external ballast on the outside, keep the old one on there to steal the headlight, and just cut a hole in the cap to route the wire.
i did but had the wrong connector selected. not that big of a deal to me. i need my car asap anyway so. just gotta get it all sealed up and back together. taking the bumper off is some bs tho
at first i was interested in how other ppl have done it. to get an idea. this is how mine turned out. I'm gonna make a bracket at work to mount the pass side ballast. driver just got mounted to the air filter box. i kinda had no choice. i don't want it just tucked somewhere. plus my axles vibrate right now so i don't wanna expose the new stuff to too much just yet. ill upload pics of under the hood when its complete.
one side kinda looks a little purple tho. its really bright out here so its also kinda hard to tell. I'm hoping the constant handling of the headlight shell didn't throw off the adjustment of the light. thinking about it now tho i wish i would've went with a brighter bulb cause i didn't like them before but ill see for sure tonight how they look. i have lights and didn't before so I'm happy. wife said they make a slight buzzing kinda sound. I'm a little deaf so i don't hear squat
its offset cause the cap of the igniter is pretty bulky and thought the less crimping to the wire the better. i also had to cut the stock mounting tabs for the stock igniter away cause every time i closed the cap and opened it the igniter wire was loose. plus like you, ocd. its nice and clean on the inside now. i don't ever plan on selling the car so I'm ok with it.
Also my cars “lowered” a couple inches and did notice my lights were even less effective than before lowering it. Whats the process for adjusting the lights?
Pic taken from sunroof. In hdr mode. Driver side not projecting like the passenger side.
Here is how they looked last night. Driver side was pointing wayyyyyy to far into incoming traffic. Got it closer to being final. I dont know if my lenses are just that dirty or what but the driver side beam is way different than the passenger when projected on a wall. Any idea why?
Looking at pics again driver side looks a little high plus i think they both might be able to come in some. Im gonna mark a wall with tape accordingly tonight at work and see how they look. Its really hard to find a building that doesnt have the road slopped away from it.
I can confidently say the bulbs are in properly. I dont have anything to reference tho as far as comparison goes to determine if its always been like that. My lights have always been “less than what i thought they should be” especially on drivers side. Even worse as of late cause they never stayed on.
This weekend ill drop the bumper again and open it up and verify the bulbs seated properly. Lenses are stock and hazy. I shouldve opened them up and cleaned them but the looked like they were opened and resealed with something so ill just save that for another day and dollar.
You can clean the headlights with them installed on the car. No big deal. The haziness is going to be on the outside surface. Get some rubbing compound and buff them.
Ive never thought about wet sanding them. I have used rubbing compound with my mothers power cone and it didnt really do much but that was before the change of ballast and bulbs. I didnt get a chance to drop the bumper and pull the headlight assembly to check the bulb is seated correctly but my lights are still better than what i had before. After further reasearch tho the new bulbs would do a hell of alot better with projector housings. Which will be coming one day soon. Ill drop the bumper and pull the headlight tho to verify. I appreciate all the input.
Bumpers off. Bulb was seated properly. So i guess until i can crack open the headlight and look at the reflector inside or retro them with some projectors (which will probably be thw same time) it is what it is. Still better than what i had.
I quick wet sanded my lenses with 5000 grit then hit it with my power cone with some rubbing compound and they actually look like clear lenses. One more final aiming session and she will be good to go. Not having that concentration of light on the driver side has bother me so thats why i did it “half ass”. Now its there. I feel better bout it and ill do the procedure fully and properly this weekend. It doesnt compare to projector lights but its even better now than yesterday.
04-10-2018, 10:54 AM
Do those headlisghts justice
