Has anybody ever heard of retrofitting a reflector to reduce glare?
it seems that it would be a cheaper alternative to retrofitting projectors
in stock housing.
I saw somebody do it to their 99 civic heres the link: intellexual net · m k i v
scroll down to about the middle of the page it is
Pliep's 1999 Honda Civic with 4100K Lexus IS/LS reflector retrofit
I searched and couldn't find if theres an available thread please send
me in the right direction. Thanks.
i've seen one retro in hidplanet.com/forums...it did spread much better than halogen reflectors.....still it's almost equal amount of work as projector retro...
It would probably cost you the same as a projector retro if you have someone do it for you. If you do it yourself, it may be cheaper than a projector retro.
Reflector retrofit.
If you can get it for cheap and do it yourself, then okay i guess. You won't get as much spread of light and if you don't aim it right or paint your stock reflectors black, then you will have glare due to the design of our headlights.
In other words, it works, but it's not worth it. Why do you think most are switching to projector-based headlights?
Ive seen that before my take on it is the older civics and the IS's have the larger circular headlights so it was probably far less work then trying to fit them in our long rectangular lamps. Too much modding of the reflectors would probably lead to an output not to your liking.
Thanks for the inputs. I was just wondering if its done
and if it was cost effective. The old acura tl have hids in their
reflector headlights so i was wondering why cant we do it to ours.
This is interesting as these older TL reflector HIDs could come in very handy and do it cheaply.
All you need from them is the reflector and the bulb shroud.
I think you will find the reflector design is subtly different, and the bulb shroud is deeper.
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