Helping a friend who had an accident in his 2014 F150 XLT Screw. Both headlight housings broke mounts but HID's still work. Not turning in on insurance.
Struggling to find housings, Carparts.com has the driver's side for $274 and passenger side for $290 minus the bulb or ballast or $564 total.
The plug is a 4 pin plug whereas the halogen plugs are 3 pin and they're not interchangeable. It seems every aftermarket HID is a conversion off the 3 pin.
Carparts.com has a pair of halogen housings with bulbs and CAPA certified for $171. Trying to keep costs low, can't find used HID ocally and frankly, on a
10 year old truck, they're likely hazed or cracked. He doesn't care about looks or halo rings or any of that, just ones that work. I know HID is better than halogen.
I can get cheaper halogen on Amazon but I'm not sure if the reflector pattern is as good.

My thought was to go to the salvage yard and cut off some halogen pigtails and cut the 4 pin plugs off and wire them in, assuming the colors match. I guess
I could leave the 4 prong plugs and splice the 3 pin in, but with 179k on the truck, he's going to drive it until it isn't worth driving. (He had a Suburban with 420k
on it before this truck.) I have no idea if all the other plugs are interchangeable going from an HID housing to a halogen housing, or if the sockets are the same.
Or is there a 4 pin female to 3 pin male harness?

 

You can't afaik. Halogen sucks compared to HID (OEM). Much better light output. I did exactly the opposite, I converted my halogen to OEM HID and can actually see the road at night now. Have you checked ebay? I had to replace one of mine after it dulled over,, found a good used one on ebay that was still in perfect shape (lens wise). The truck it came off of was also in a wreck but the housing was only busted on the backside, sight unseen, so I cut a patch out of an old antifreeze bottle and slathered some silcone sealant on it and done. That was about 6 years ago and still looks/works great.

P.S. 2013 was the 1st year for that type headlight, 2014 the last due to body changes in 2015. Either 13 or 14 will work for your search.