Vehicle: 2000 Mustang GT, bone stock, original body panels and headlights!
Yesterday, I received a pair of smoked headlights from blueoval industries. I went ahead and attempted to install them. NO LUCK!!! well after 1+ hour of messing with the passenger light, I noticed that the round plastic pieces, that lock the bubs into the housing, were too large, and were no clearing the metal brackets in the support. After, realizing that I had to push down on these part of the headlight to force it down, to allow it to clear the metal hole, the passenger headlight finally went in!
Driver headlight, well since it already knew about thet round/cylinder piece around the bulb, I went ahead and pushed down on it, as I pushed/forced the headlight in, and yup, in it went, put it flush against the fender and bumper, as far as it would go. AND this is where another little surprise arises, the tabs which extend through the other side of the metal bracket are too short!!! Now how the hell was I supposed to secure the headlight to the bumper!? I spend about 20+ mins making sure it wasn't my fault, double checking that the headlight was properly ligned up with the fender. It was on their properly! I took pictures to document the findings, wrote them an email and explained to them what happened. Granted I was very frustrated/pissed that I just had wasted 3+ hours dealing with the damn things, SO i might have been a little rude/sarcastic as they put it. According to them (blueoval), it seems like I can not install a simple pair of headlights?, weird, seing as how my stockies were back on in less that 5 mins! The problem,with the driver headlight, is that the tabs dont extend far out enough to allow for the metal retainer to go through them and secure it to the bumper! Let this forum be the judge, and let the pictures speak for themselves. I am no fool and can work a wrench more than enough to be able to install a simple pair of headlights! I persisted for about 3+ hours to try to get the damn things in. But, in the end, I mut be wrong, since they claim these headlights have been sellng for the past 7 years. Ironically, my stockies, fit like they should!? Hmmm...Im guessing, manufacturing errors dont exist, and everything that comes from china, japan, taiwan, etc. is free of DEFECTS!!!!!?!?!! Anybody else encouner anything like this, not from them, but from aftermarket headlights for their 2000 GT. The manufacture of the headlights appears to be Eagle Eyes, since its on the boxes each headlight is in.
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Yesterday, I received a pair of smoked headlights from blueoval industries. I went ahead and attempted to install them. NO LUCK!!! well after 1+ hour of messing with the passenger light, I noticed that the round plastic pieces, that lock the bubs into the housing, were too large, and were no clearing the metal brackets in the support. After, realizing that I had to push down on these part of the headlight to force it down, to allow it to clear the metal hole, the passenger headlight finally went in!
Driver headlight, well since it already knew about thet round/cylinder piece around the bulb, I went ahead and pushed down on it, as I pushed/forced the headlight in, and yup, in it went, put it flush against the fender and bumper, as far as it would go. AND this is where another little surprise arises, the tabs which extend through the other side of the metal bracket are too short!!! Now how the hell was I supposed to secure the headlight to the bumper!? I spend about 20+ mins making sure it wasn't my fault, double checking that the headlight was properly ligned up with the fender. It was on their properly! I took pictures to document the findings, wrote them an email and explained to them what happened. Granted I was very frustrated/pissed that I just had wasted 3+ hours dealing with the damn things, SO i might have been a little rude/sarcastic as they put it. According to them (blueoval), it seems like I can not install a simple pair of headlights?, weird, seing as how my stockies were back on in less that 5 mins! The problem,with the driver headlight, is that the tabs dont extend far out enough to allow for the metal retainer to go through them and secure it to the bumper! Let this forum be the judge, and let the pictures speak for themselves. I am no fool and can work a wrench more than enough to be able to install a simple pair of headlights! I persisted for about 3+ hours to try to get the damn things in. But, in the end, I mut be wrong, since they claim these headlights have been sellng for the past 7 years. Ironically, my stockies, fit like they should!? Hmmm...Im guessing, manufacturing errors dont exist, and everything that comes from china, japan, taiwan, etc. is free of DEFECTS!!!!!?!?!! Anybody else encouner anything like this, not from them, but from aftermarket headlights for their 2000 GT. The manufacture of the headlights appears to be Eagle Eyes, since its on the boxes each headlight is in.
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