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Old Feb 3, 2010 | 08:47 AM
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Default Head Lights - What I did

My lights (like most peoples) were terrible. Just did not put out any light.
1. Purchased 50watt Fog Lights (Take one out and go match it at the parts store). I think they also are the ones used in 1980-1990 model Camaro.
2. Adjusted fog lights up to about level.

That made a big difference but then went further.

3. Purchased Sylvania Silverstar Ultra High Beam bulbs (65 watt).
4. Take a small pair of cutters or a small wood chissle or a small knife blade and remove the keyway pieces that stick up inside the socket of the bulb itself so your low beam connector will plug in. Same plug just has a small plastic protrusion difference. If you look at the bulbs at the parts store you will see the difference up inside the connector.
5. Install in lowbeam spot. (low beam sockets are pointed down more than high beam sockets in the headlight bucket so you won't blind people)
6. Go out to a flat road (in front of my house in my case) and adjust headlight buckets to get good light down the road. Mine were way low and pointed too far right. Make sure you spray the adjusters down good with a penetrating oil at least 30 minutes before you try to adjust. Move slow or you will break the adjuster bolt. If this happens, you can still adjust. Just have to remove bucket and get things freed up and then adjust by turning the bolt that the adjuster rides on.

Now I can see great. Lot cheaper than doing the HID kit stuff and you get better fog lights in the process.

Hope this helps some poeple.

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Old Feb 3, 2010 | 10:27 AM
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Thanks Thomas, I'm going to give this a try. (I've already converted the fogs and they did make a difference.)
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