crappy headlights?? h4 conversion or hid conversion
biohazard cj
Jeeper
we all will mostly agree, the oem seal beam head lights suck, i live in ny on long island, where the deer cause at least 25 30% of all accendents, and the seal beam lights dont reflect or "fan out" the light like some newer cars. some people even look into spending almost a thousand dollors to have custom headlight made up to use the same hid systems that lexus mercedese and cadilac's and many more cars use now. there is a more inexspensive way to get hid conversions. or even a h4 conversion
im sure most of you heard about the h4 conversion, i have done it to every truck that iv owned that had sealed beam head lights. iv experimented with them as well, here are some dos and donts from my personal opinion from expierence. DO's: glass lenses with a clear look like your window's with no deflecters in the lense. the deflectors should be molded into the back of the housing where the reflector (shinny chrome piece) is behind the bulb. this is a more effective design to help with light shinning off on the sholder for perriferial vision and with these houseing you should be able to see further.ebay sells them serch jeep h4 conversion. if you do not want HID lights i sugest getting the silverstar ultra h4 bulbs they do help.
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DONTS: and this is very important. the plastic lenses are thiner and weaker then the glass ones and with in a year you will have oxiodized lenses giveing that faded orange glow. also glass or plastic lenses that have the deflectors into the lense this looks like the factory seald beam lights you wiill not be able to see the actual bulb. incase you are wondering,
some conversions you can get projector style. this is your own opinion if you want them yea for hid lights they are great they leave a sharp line of sight and leave little "glare back" in the fog rain snow and so forth, but be aware that they do take away from distance and sometimes (faning out of light the spreading of light from sholder to sholder of road way) I DO NOT recoment projectors for non HID applications. here are what i am talking about 83 84 85 86 JEEP CJ-7 7" ROUND H4 PRO HEADLIGHTS:eBay Motors (item 250545788643 end time Dec-12-09 11:14:04 PST) get those and purchase a hid kit as well do not use normal h4 halogen lights. u wont like them
as far as HID kits they arent as exspesive as you would think. 350 bucks, no well if you go to a retail store maybe, AMC 150 bucks maybe at retail store when they are on sale, well what about 50 bucks!? and no not stolen, or fake hid kits or gymics. on ebay motors you can find plenty of EBAY STOREs! with reputable feedback and scores where you can trust. its where i got mine from and i have no problems. here are some things you should consider. and in the link below there are pictures of everything what about to say.
a very big misconseption with color of light and the kalvin measurement is people think the higher kalvin the birghter the light. NO its not, 5000k is xtream white. 6000k is dimond white 8000k is iceberg blue (thats what i haveon my cj) 10000k is brillant blue and 12000k is kinda purpleish. i wanted a little blue so i sacraficed some lighting quality and got the 8000k, 10k and 12k are even more blue and less effective of lighting up the road, if you live the city no big deal. but out in the contry trust me stick with 5000 or 6000k you will see further and they will light up the animals and people so much better. plus 5000k or 6000k wont piss off as many people comming towards you
here is the link to the ebay store i trust the most and deal with once a month for myself and friends and family, just if you buy from them or any other store for hid kits you have to tell them what bulbs your car/truck has (the jeep h4 conversions housing takes a H4 bulb) so you would ask for h4 hid bulbs and what ever color you want, in the link you will see a pic of what i am talking about on the ebay page. XENON HID CONVERSION KITS*9005/9006/9007/H3/H4/H11/H13*:eBay Motors (item 180443032753 end time Dec-12-09 09:16:00 PST)
obviously if you want to do this another truck or car just say what bulbs you have in there its a simple hook up. just sometimes you HAVE to get a relay kit for them or they may not work right, for JEEPs you HAVE to get a relay kit which is plug and play or if you are good at eletrical you can hook up a relay very easy like i did, it is easy and send me a msg and i can help..
i also advise if you get the h4conversion kits even with out the hid kit the relay kit will also help a little with making sure you are getting supiror power to the lights.
after you get your h4 kit or HID kit for any car or truck and need help wirering them or have a problem like one works not the other, or one blinks, just simply msg me with a email or a phone number and i will gladly help im expierenced with hid kits very well. thank you for your time on reading all of this.
im sure most of you heard about the h4 conversion, i have done it to every truck that iv owned that had sealed beam head lights. iv experimented with them as well, here are some dos and donts from my personal opinion from expierence. DO's: glass lenses with a clear look like your window's with no deflecters in the lense. the deflectors should be molded into the back of the housing where the reflector (shinny chrome piece) is behind the bulb. this is a more effective design to help with light shinning off on the sholder for perriferial vision and with these houseing you should be able to see further.ebay sells them serch jeep h4 conversion. if you do not want HID lights i sugest getting the silverstar ultra h4 bulbs they do help.
.
DONTS: and this is very important. the plastic lenses are thiner and weaker then the glass ones and with in a year you will have oxiodized lenses giveing that faded orange glow. also glass or plastic lenses that have the deflectors into the lense this looks like the factory seald beam lights you wiill not be able to see the actual bulb. incase you are wondering,
some conversions you can get projector style. this is your own opinion if you want them yea for hid lights they are great they leave a sharp line of sight and leave little "glare back" in the fog rain snow and so forth, but be aware that they do take away from distance and sometimes (faning out of light the spreading of light from sholder to sholder of road way) I DO NOT recoment projectors for non HID applications. here are what i am talking about 83 84 85 86 JEEP CJ-7 7" ROUND H4 PRO HEADLIGHTS:eBay Motors (item 250545788643 end time Dec-12-09 11:14:04 PST) get those and purchase a hid kit as well do not use normal h4 halogen lights. u wont like them
as far as HID kits they arent as exspesive as you would think. 350 bucks, no well if you go to a retail store maybe, AMC 150 bucks maybe at retail store when they are on sale, well what about 50 bucks!? and no not stolen, or fake hid kits or gymics. on ebay motors you can find plenty of EBAY STOREs! with reputable feedback and scores where you can trust. its where i got mine from and i have no problems. here are some things you should consider. and in the link below there are pictures of everything what about to say.
a very big misconseption with color of light and the kalvin measurement is people think the higher kalvin the birghter the light. NO its not, 5000k is xtream white. 6000k is dimond white 8000k is iceberg blue (thats what i haveon my cj) 10000k is brillant blue and 12000k is kinda purpleish. i wanted a little blue so i sacraficed some lighting quality and got the 8000k, 10k and 12k are even more blue and less effective of lighting up the road, if you live the city no big deal. but out in the contry trust me stick with 5000 or 6000k you will see further and they will light up the animals and people so much better. plus 5000k or 6000k wont piss off as many people comming towards you
here is the link to the ebay store i trust the most and deal with once a month for myself and friends and family, just if you buy from them or any other store for hid kits you have to tell them what bulbs your car/truck has (the jeep h4 conversions housing takes a H4 bulb) so you would ask for h4 hid bulbs and what ever color you want, in the link you will see a pic of what i am talking about on the ebay page. XENON HID CONVERSION KITS*9005/9006/9007/H3/H4/H11/H13*:eBay Motors (item 180443032753 end time Dec-12-09 09:16:00 PST)
obviously if you want to do this another truck or car just say what bulbs you have in there its a simple hook up. just sometimes you HAVE to get a relay kit for them or they may not work right, for JEEPs you HAVE to get a relay kit which is plug and play or if you are good at eletrical you can hook up a relay very easy like i did, it is easy and send me a msg and i can help..
i also advise if you get the h4conversion kits even with out the hid kit the relay kit will also help a little with making sure you are getting supiror power to the lights.
after you get your h4 kit or HID kit for any car or truck and need help wirering them or have a problem like one works not the other, or one blinks, just simply msg me with a email or a phone number and i will gladly help im expierenced with hid kits very well. thank you for your time on reading all of this.
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