New Headlights.....sigh

helty · Mar 23, 2007

After an unfortunate incedent involving my friends Lightning and another friends passenger side headlight, I was able to score a new set with clear corners for half price. (mine were scratched and had condensation )

Long story short,......they fit like crap. I wasnt expecting OE quality, but I wasnt expecting this either.

The gap on the drivers side is about 1/2" from the fender. The passenger side isnt near as bad, but still sticks out like a sore thumb.

speedfreak98r · Mar 23, 2007

What was wrong with your old ones?

stangGT97 · Mar 23, 2007

No offense man, but that doesn't look too good. How much would a new set of OE smoked headlights cost? Where are those headlights from?

helty · Mar 23, 2007

speedfreak98r said:
What was wrong with your old ones?

i edited. re-read.

I will elaborate on the accident though, lol. We were at the track with a bunch of cars; stangs, L's, etc. Of course all the mustang guys took their passenger side headlight out, and set them to the side of where we parked. My friend in the L decided he was ready to run, so he hops in his truck, backs up a little, and I see it raise up about 3", then fall down really quick. He gets out and looks around, and his face turns white........

crap, he took the picture down. anyway, he crushed one of the mustangs headlights, so I gave them one out of my car bc it was scratched, and the L driver gave me $100 towards a new set.

helty · Mar 23, 2007

stangGT97 said:
No offense man, but that doesn't look too good. How much would a new set of OE smoked headlights cost? Where are those headlights from?

did you bother reading the words before the pics? Im not exactly doing backflips of joy over the fitment.

these are smoked, w/ clear corners. they look funny bc I had the flashers on to make sure everything worked.

mustangtuning.com, and they will be contacted shortly.

01BlkGT · Mar 23, 2007

Well thanks for giving the heads up about that....to bad there always has to be a guinea pig. Hopefully they can get you a properly fitting set or your money back...unless they try to pull the whole you didn't install them right thing.

helty · Mar 23, 2007

01BlkGT said:
Well thanks for giving the heads up about that....to bad there always has to be a guinea pig. Hopefully they can get you a properly fitting set or your money back...unless they try to pull the whole you didn't install them right thing.

Pending what AmericanMuscle offers to do for me, I will either try another set in exchange, or see what Randy S. can do for me on a set of OE's. I know those bastards are $$$.

But, I did need new ones anyway. Things will work themselves out for ole helty.

speedfreak98r · Mar 23, 2007

I got some projectors from americanmuscle.com, and I had to cut the plastic behind the lights to get them to fit. Thats what it said to do in the directions.

geoffsgt · Mar 23, 2007

Pretty generous of you to offer your headlight up like that. The Lightning owner probably should have bought the guy a new one straight up.

If karma means anything, everything should work out for ya.

helty · Mar 23, 2007

speedfreak98r said:
I got some projectors from americanmuscle.com, and I had to cut the plastic behind the lights to get them to fit. Thats what it said to do in the directions.

No instructions Just 2 boxes with lights in them. I figured something as trivial as headlights wouldnt require instructions (although if you need to modify them, I could see then).

FWIW I my disappointment is not directed towards AM. com. Its just towards the crappy fitment of the product. They are not the manufacturer and I know they dont have the time or means to test fit every product in their inventory. They've done well by me in the past and I expect the will do the same here......I hope.

CobraRed_96_GT · Mar 23, 2007

i have the same problem just less bad, except mine from a difference in relation to the passenger side in edjustment. Anyway your driver side ones are pointing down too mcuh and that's why there's a gap?

Red99GTVert · Mar 23, 2007

If you want a set of Ford made OEM headlights, go to www.performancepartsinc.com

$169.99 for a set of smoked Ford OEM headlights. Excellent deal.

bullitt_2620 · Mar 23, 2007

Got any other pics, from the front or something? I was thinking of doing the clear corner headlights with the stealth bulbs. Just curious how they look on the bullitt, sucks bout the crappy fitament, that would happen to me too, horrible luck...

stangGT97 · Mar 23, 2007

helty said:
did you bother reading the words before the pics? Im not exactly doing backflips of joy over the fitment.

these are smoked, w/ clear corners. they look funny bc I had the flashers on to make sure everything worked.

mustangtuning.com, and they will be contacted shortly.

yes, I did read your post, I was just agreeing with you that they weren't too good of a fit. My AM.com lights also kind of fit like crap, but as you said, American Muscle is just a distributor. I'm sure they'll help you out.

DCjuggalo · Mar 23, 2007

Red99GTVert said:
If you want a set of Ford made OEM headlights, go to www.performancepartsinc.com

$169.99 for a set of smoked Ford OEM headlights. Excellent deal.

can you link to the lights plz i got lost looking for them.

helty sounds like u and me got the same batch of headlights lol i got mine off ebay though

helty · Mar 23, 2007

I posted on AM.coms forum, they are gonna hook me up, somehow. I gotta call them monday morning. maybe I'll take store credit and go for those OE's Red99GTVert posted.

Red99GTVert · Mar 24, 2007

DCjuggalo said:
can you link to the lights plz i got lost looking for them.

helty sounds like u and me got the same batch of headlights lol i got mine off ebay though

Unfortunately you can't link to them directly, but they are on the interior/exterior page, maybe 80% of the way down in a group of lighting items. Just look for the $169.99 price on the right.

ZakeriD · Mar 24, 2007

http://www.performancepartsinc.com/images/rheadlites.jpg
here is the pic... better to look from the bottom up.

007 · Mar 24, 2007

You need some stealth turn signal bulbs. Dont buy silverstars, get stealth ones on ebay. Or ill sell you the silverstars for 5 bucks, but they arent perfectly clear.

Kilgore Trout · Mar 24, 2007

The clear corners look good though. If you get stuck with those somehow, I think you may be able to re-shape them...

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