improved headlights?
Melting Slicks
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From: LaGrange Park, IL IL
St. Jude Donor '13, '15
Subscribed as well. Originally wanted to save money and went with Corvette Mods Low Beam HID bulbs in stock housings. VERY disappointed with the light output and wish I would have just waited to save more money and get the entire new HID housings like most vendors carry. Now I watch the used marketplace and vendor sales to see if I can snag a set to replace mine and then sell the ones I have.
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2013
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From: SoCal CA
Something to consider: The factory headlights were designed to focus light into a small area directly in front of the car. Running silverstars, HIRs or even HIDs in these housings will only brighten this small area.
The Projector in our housings is design to illuminate an area nearly 10 times a large as the area illuminated by the factory lights and with the HID power source it has no problem doing this.
We will be having a sale on these lights very soon (within a week)
The Projector in our housings is design to illuminate an area nearly 10 times a large as the area illuminated by the factory lights and with the HID power source it has no problem doing this.
We will be having a sale on these lights very soon (within a week)
Racer
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From: McHenry Illinois
St. Jude Donor '14
I do not presume to tell George or any businessman how to run his company. I'm speaking only as a consumer.
Supporting Vendor
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From: Republic of Texas
I know you're right, but I can't get over the $650 price. George advertised and then had a sale recently, but the $50 reduction wasn't enough for me to go ahead. I know he has to make a profit on what he sells and I've read only good things about these lights. I'm hoping he might be willing to do a further reduction for a limited time for a relatively small number of these kits without sacrificing too much of his profit margin (the downside is that people would expect that price every time and that's not good for him). That would get me to pull the trigger. I'm not going to put any more money into aftermarket bulbs that fail in less than a year (Silverstar).
I do not presume to tell George or any businessman how to run his company. I'm speaking only as a consumer.
I do not presume to tell George or any businessman how to run his company. I'm speaking only as a consumer.
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Burning Brakes
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From: SoCal CA
For the time being, I decided to go with the RF 4-Hi harness and HIR bulbs for both high and low beams. It made a large improvement and only cost about $125. For the amount of night driving I do, this is good enough for me. I would love to install either the RF Bi-Zenon projectors or the European 80-90 watt setup, but the budget just won't allow it at this time.
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Burning Brakes
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From: SoCal CA
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I know the majority of people on here don't like the depo lights they say they look like frog eyes but had them for over a year with HID bulbs and don't even want to think about the factory lights anymore mine are bright and I can see without a problem