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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 12:02 PM
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Another headlight question

Hey guys I got a question/s! What's the reason for changing headlight assy's? I see threads about it all the time; is it for looks, performance,what? I know what ya'll mean when I see "Once you start adding mods you can't stop" So I was wondering if this is something I should add to my future mod list......Then which one should I change to?
 
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 12:13 PM
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some guys like the harley smoke look. others just like the 05-07 headlights and grille for looks. the 05-07 are the best if you want to upgrade to xenon. all of the assys suck for light output with the later ones being the worst in my opinion.
 
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 07:11 PM
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The ones on my 99 were starting to yellow so I put some smoked ones on that I got from ebay.. They look cool but light output was really bad. Put some Sylvania Silverstars in to help, but when I get the money I will go with the Harley lights, much better quality plus they are a 1 piece light.
 
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Old Jun 27, 2008 | 08:41 AM
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Thanks guys! So mostly seems like an appearance thing! As far as the syl silverstars go, I was considering them (headlight went out in my Focus & I installed one, man what a difference! Now I need to change the other one!) I recall some company making a plug in harness that is supposed to supply 12v straight to the headlight, they state the headlights only get 10v (something like that). It wasn't a bad price, but I never put a voltmeter on my harness to verify the lower voltage!
 
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Old Jun 27, 2008 | 08:45 AM
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Dfuser has them. I installed one on my truck. Made a difference.

http://www.dfuser.com/catalog/harness.php
 
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Old Jun 27, 2008 | 09:04 AM
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Yeah.. I had to do the same thing.. the sylvania silverstars helped but I still couldn't see very well at night.. so I drove to dfuser's garage and he installed it for me.. made a big difference.. if I didn't have the smoked out lights I bet my lights would be really bright!
 
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Dfuser has them. I installed one on my truck. Made a difference.

http://www.dfuser.com/catalog/harness.php
That sounds like a mod I could be up for!
 
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