projector headlight pics
akiraboy
HondaCivicWagon.com Founder
Ladies & gents, I have had my projectors for a while now.
I thought I'd post some pics of them here. Probably on of the most satisfying mods to do. nuff said
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So I'll preach again on the wonders of the 9005 low beam conversion.
Simply put, you run 9005 bulbs instead of 9006 in your low beam housing.
The 9005 is only 5 watts more than the 9006 but it doesn't have half the bulb covered by opaque goo. The result is more light and no early burn outs(ahem Silverstars). If I had to quantify it, I would say 10-15% increase. And you get this improvement for the cost of a regular halogen bulb (no more $20 bulbs).
Most people hear "9005/high beam" and immediately assumes it blinds oncoming traffic. Well, it doesn't. That's because most of your high beams functionality comes from the housing, not the bulb. Put this bulb in the low beam housing and it focuses on the right part of the road.
You can either modify the bulb or the plug to make this work....there are a couple write ups floating around. You can either go look at your own car and a bulb or find the writeup. I'm not holding anyones hand.
It will even work on projectors. I'm doing it on my CRX right now.
Something I just read that looks promising but I haven't tried it:
http://www.hirheadlights.com/
My projectors were made for a hatch/rex so they'll need little or no attention being installed
Here's an Ebay listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/CLEAR-HEADLIGHT-honda-CIVIC-WAGON-90-91-chrome-housing_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33710QQitemZ8061356990QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD1V
Warning: I called and talked to a sales person the other day and this guy was a total ass%0le! All I wanted to know was whether or not the lenes were glass or plastic and dude gave me a tude!!!!!
all those Ebay projectors are the same shit.
the ones you picked out are no different than the ones we've been talking about, only those are a different color.
personally, i prefer the all black with no chrome on them.
as for why HID will not work on them, i still don't know. i emailed one of those people the other day and he was very vague about it.
(maybe they will melt as Akira said..who knows??)
i already have HID on my car so i just wanted to see if i could install those projectors on them, because i thought, it'd look kinda cool..but i'm probably gonna forget about it since it's too much trouble to get it done.
i hate dealing with fuckjobs and assholes like the ones on Ebay. this is why you should never buy from Ebay. they don't like to answer questions from potential customers and they all have a 'fuck you' bad attitude for customer service.
plus, if you get it wrong and try to return something, you can kiss your money goodbye.
none of these guys will care..you can rant and complain all you want..they'll just open another account and start new.
1. Look at a sellers feedback. Specifically, how many items they've sold over how long a period. Low feedback or a new account, best to be suspicious. Read any negative feedback and look for patterns/modus operandi.
Use the feedback tool. Its only valuable if people use it. Don't hesitate to leave bad feedback if you feel they deserve it.
2. See how they respond to email (or phone calls). Its a good indication of how they will do business.
3. Pay with a credit card whenever possible. Not Paypal, which I'll admit is convienient, but offers minimal protection if the deal goes south. I generally only use Paypal for transactions under $50.
If its a private party that wants to use Paypal, and its a high dollar item, be paranoid as shit. Check their Paypal feedback too. Paypal may be pretty bad about actually getting money back, but they won't let a fuckup use their service for very long. A lot of feedback means they generally do business well enough not to generate complaints.
If a Paypal deal isn't going as planned, don't get strung along waiting for the package to show up. You only have 30 days from the transaction date to make a claim.
4. Check the photo in a listing....there has to be a photo. No photo, sorry not interested in your potentially fabricated listing.
Is the photo of the actual item(or a stock photo)? Stock photos are hardly better than no photo. And it needs to be a decent quality pic. Large enough to scrutinize. Does the photo match the item description?
Does a photo mean that its not a fake? No...but ask for additional photos or a closeup of a particular detail. Can they produce more pictures? If not, be suspicious.
Anyway, that's a good start. Any place where people are handing their money over blindly will attract unsavory scammers...whether its online or in real life. Its just a fact. Be cautious.
But back to projectors, I'm not down to pay hundreds of dough if I'm only getting plastic lenes. I think I'ma gonna look at HID or HIR.
Another problem is with these fuckjobs on Ebay is that if they don't get the price they are looking for, what they do is open up another account and shill bid on their own fucking item.
A few months ago I was bidding on a Garfield telephone for my girlfriend cuz she like Garfield..anyway, it was all mine because nobody else bid on it and there was no reserve on the item and then at the last minute some 'new' account started bidding on it.
Then I raised my bid to become high bid again. Then at the last possible minute this asscrack outbid me.
I clicked on who this person's account description and lo and behold, this person was a brand spankin' new account.
AWWWW! come on now!!
This is not a one time incident. It happens all the time. I bid on several different Garfield telephones.
There's alot of shill bidding on Ebay which only makes alot of what is being sold on there a sucker's game. They will have either themselves or their friends with bogus dummy accounts boost their own items up and force you to bid higher.
A waste of time.
Lastly, Ebay doesn't police any of this shit. You try to email customer service on Ebay and see what happens. They send you a boiler plate stupid ignorant email they send everyone who emails them. They sit on their asses and collect the fees.
They are a public company that doesn't feel they are responsible for their user's actions. Ebay also owns PayPal, which means they don't bother policing scams on there either.
Back to the original thread:
I just got an email back from the guy selling the projectors. He can't speak english or type it enough for me to really understand what he's saying.
The gist of it is that he doesn't know why HID won't work on these projectors. Nothing more than that.
As weird as it sounds I may go back to my old lenses & some yellow bulbs
since my buddy has those HIDs coming in for me, he mentioned to me getting a set of projectors. He said doing a retro-fit for the HIDs would be much better than the standard housing. i'm worried about this because it has already been mentioned about melting the plastic housing of the projectors.
now i know that the stock housing is pretty good as it has a certian pattern so the light scatters properly, and that a 9006/05 mod helps get a lot more light scattered. and projectors only throws the light a few feet further. so i figure the projectors plus HIDs wouldnt be much of a difference. and there's the risk of the housing melting. should i bother with getting projectors? i like the way mrwagovan's HIDs light up everything, which is what im going for. should i try the retro-fit?
some ideas would be great!
:arrow: The reason is simple:It's a magnify glass.So if you put a HID in.BANG :!: WAY brighter lite.