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Holy crap that is some tedious work but my god they came out amazing!! Very Nice write up (i got tired just reading the DIY) and i am sure it was worth it in the end for you, they look sick! Congrats
How do your cutoffs and everything look without spacers? I am installing my lenses soon and am not sure what to do about spacers. Any shots of your cutoffs/light throw?
How do your cutoffs and everything look without spacers? I am installing my lenses soon and am not sure what to do about spacers. Any shots of your cutoffs/light throw? Great work!!!
Cutoffs are sharp and have some color flicker around the edges with no spacers. It's a pretty tight fit to get the aluminum lock ring back on the body, so I left the spacers out. I can post a pic later. Good luck with the swap!
Thanks blnewt! I remember reading all that some time ago, looks like it takes some fine tuning to get a good cutoff line and clear output. I might try it but not sure since it takes custom tuning with paper lense spacers to get the output right. Nothing hard just not sure if I want to mess with it after that Z guy had his beams all over the place.
If we just swap the lenses, does the cutoff line no longer be horizontally straight?
The cutoff becomes sharper and still retains the nice horizontal plane but even more defined depending on how much spacing you use. My Sedan lenses (the STiR version) I used a thicker cardboard spacer and the cutoff is great w/ a faint blue edge flicker which looks real nice. If I would have use the enclosed wire spacers (which I didn't think they secured the lens real well, that's why I didn't use them) I would have had an even sharper cutoff w/ a bit more blue edge tone. If I ever get into the lights again I'll use those bigger spacers.
For an even more dramatic "laser-straight" cutoff, the metal lens shield can be cut, IMO it's not necessary but if you're really into the stuff over on HIDplanet it seems the cutoff can never be too perfect
The cutoff will be the same as long as you don't mess with the bi-xenon shields. My only resistance to opening the lights up is the metal retaining ring to hold the new clear lenses with spacers tight. I wonder how much trimming to the shields is needed to perfect the cutoff or is trimming the black tab down required. Post some before and after pics of cutoff!
Well, while fixing my loose projector lense and bi-xenon shield getting stuck on bright, I realized I already had clear lenses from the previous owner. No wonder it came loose, the idiot hardly put the ring back on. Well, when I lubed the little rod that flicks the shield up/down for the brights, I must have bent it or something. So, the brights are fixed but now I have a great cutoff on the passenger side and a terrible yellow blur on the left with probably half the lumen. After all that work, I'm not doing it again so it's going to be ghetto until I pay someone to just send me a modded driver side. Ugh. For your laughing pleasure :
01-29-2014, 09:27 AM
