Headlights

[Supp22]

Has anyone ordered any aftermarket lights that are worth anything??
I ordered a LED conversion kit from American Muscle, my stock halogens were better!!
So then I tried a 35 watt Canbus HID, from Protuninglab, absolutely horrible!!
Anybody have anything out there that actually helps see better at night than the stock headlights?
I haven't thought about the projector types because I really like the stock big headlight look.

 

[nyuk98gt]

Supp22,

Two things have greatly improved my stock halogen headlights: a wiring harness (Putco 239008HW wiring harness - it has relays, heavy gauge wiring, and sends full battery voltage to the light bulbs) and aiming the lights up a tad (because the car is lowered). Much better. The harness is not expensive at about $60. I got some split harness wrap and took off the bright yellow plastic wrap that the harness comes with. Took me a couple of hours to install, working at a snail's pace and being careful to run the new harness so it looks stock.

You can get retrofit kits for halogen projectors and HID projectors. There's a fellow on another forum who makes halogen-to-HID wiring harnesses and retrofits projectors into halogen housings. Stock HID lights are pricey but, if cost is no object, OEM is the way to go.

HTH,

Chris

 

[Red_LX]

HID's in halogen housings suck, never go that route. The light pattern is bad and they are blinding to everyone else.

 

[nyuk98gt]

Red_LX,

Agreed about HID bulbs in halogen housings is just wrong. I should have said that an HID assembly (reflector, bulb) can be retrofit into a former halogen housing. The HID kit has the proper reflector so oncoming drivers are not blinded. There's a fellow in TX who does these retrofits and he also makes plug-and-play harnesses if an owner wants to replace the whole halogen headlight assembly with an OEM HID assembly ($$). Seems that F-150 owners seem to do this more than Mustang owners.

Chris

 

[Red_LX]

I was addressing that more to Supp22 because he said he tried an HID retrofit kit. I've seen the guys put the HID assemblies into factory lamps. I'd love to have factory HID's but they're $1000 a pair even with broken off mounting tabs on the light housings.