WTB: OEM 03-04 Sedan HID headlights
OEM 03-04 Sedan HID headlights
as the title says, im looking for some OEM headlights. I don't need the ballasts or bulbs. My lenses are beyond fixing and just looking to replace them due to that. I've considered buying a cheap set of chinese headlights and removing the lenses but I think I'd rather go this route. I'm not willing to pay $200-$300 per light with broken tabs. Thats all i can find on ebay/junkyards. Let me know what you've got. Thanks
Can someone please tell me why junkyards/ebay are trying to sell these lights with broken tabs, damaged reflectors/lenses for upwards of $400 per head light? They are 12 years old. I understand new ones from infiniti are still outrageously priced but this is ridiculous.
as the title says, im looking for some OEM headlights. I don't need the ballasts or bulbs. My lenses are beyond fixing and just looking to replace them due to that. I've considered buying a cheap set of chinese headlights and removing the lenses but I think I'd rather go this route. I'm not willing to pay $200-$300 per light with broken tabs. Thats all i can find on ebay/junkyards. Let me know what you've got. Thanks
Man, I hear you. Us poor halogen 03 guys totally got the shaft without knowing it at purchase!
If all else else fails, it might help to know my setup using the halogen housings with HIDs with lots of experience tweaking them to be finally decent. What I did was order a pair of H1 hids (I bought 55w but decided to go with the cheapest of the cheap ebay ones because I was just experimenting and they're not all that bright, even beat by lots of OEM 35 watters)
I noticed that to no surprise at all, they have a blotchy beam patter and part of it even shines up in what looks like a pot leaf shape against a wall and I could only rotate the bulb about 2 ways due to the tabs. So I broke off the wider tab on the bulbs, and was able to rotate them until I found a decent beam shape that only shines down.
It still wasn't that great and had some glare of course, but I noticed everytime I was messing with the bulbs that if I pressed down on them, I got a nice wide-ish flat beam pattern that had almost no glare and ok cutoff amazingly but went back to crap as soon as I let go. So I found a solution... very easy and cheap
... just press a quarter into the space above the bulb in between the surrounding plastic and voila, got that decent beam pattern with an ok cutoff for non-projectors.
I took care to aim them down a bit, and went in front of car and tested for blinding. It's been 8 months no and not a single person flashed me, tested vs friends, they say it's fine and blind less than many oem setups so It's good. Hope you can find a better setup, but this ghetto method actually ended up working.
I'm doing the same with foglight hids too and it works well for a cheap quad hid look though the cheap ones suck so much you actually need 4 to look like a good set of 2
If all else else fails, it might help to know my setup using the halogen housings with HIDs with lots of experience tweaking them to be finally decent. What I did was order a pair of H1 hids (I bought 55w but decided to go with the cheapest of the cheap ebay ones because I was just experimenting and they're not all that bright, even beat by lots of OEM 35 watters)
I noticed that to no surprise at all, they have a blotchy beam patter and part of it even shines up in what looks like a pot leaf shape against a wall and I could only rotate the bulb about 2 ways due to the tabs. So I broke off the wider tab on the bulbs, and was able to rotate them until I found a decent beam shape that only shines down.
It still wasn't that great and had some glare of course, but I noticed everytime I was messing with the bulbs that if I pressed down on them, I got a nice wide-ish flat beam pattern that had almost no glare and ok cutoff amazingly but went back to crap as soon as I let go. So I found a solution... very easy and cheap
... just press a quarter into the space above the bulb in between the surrounding plastic and voila, got that decent beam pattern with an ok cutoff for non-projectors.I took care to aim them down a bit, and went in front of car and tested for blinding. It's been 8 months no and not a single person flashed me, tested vs friends, they say it's fine and blind less than many oem setups so It's good. Hope you can find a better setup, but this ghetto method actually ended up working.
I'm doing the same with foglight hids too and it works well for a cheap quad hid look though the cheap ones suck so much you actually need 4 to look like a good set of 2
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