so my new headlights came in and i took them to my local auto body shop and had the installed. at first they said they had to remove the bumper to get the the headlights but they jacked the car up and turned the wheel and were able to get into them that way. is this correct way to install them without removing the bumper? here is my real question though. i wanna make sure that the headlights are alined and focusing straight at the road. when you install these things is there a proper way of doing it? how do i know they are straight on and not pointing/aiming a little high or left or right? anyway to check? thanks

 

I guess you are asking about your headlight replacement bulb and not the whole headlight itself. For replacement bulbs, it's perfectly fine to turn the wheel and remove the liner to reach the headlights. That's actually the correct way w/o having to remove your whole front fascia. However, it makes it much easier to work with to remove the wheels if you need extra space to work but not a must.

As far as your alignment of the bulbs, this will not affect the aiming/projection of the bulbs as long as your bulbs are oem quality. Only time you need to re-adjust your aiming/projection is if you slam your car.

GL! Hope this helps.

 

Exactly what he said!

MY G37 is about 2 months old and when I went to change my bulbs, I took the tires off to get behind. Now after replacing all the lights up front, I've learned to just remove 4 clips and move down the fender lining to get to what I need.

 

Yeah no way you can change out the entire headlight through the wheel well but bulbs are no problem.

 

yes i was changing the 4300K lights to the 8000K lights that the place sent me. so i should be good with not having to align them again? i am sort of confused about the alignment part. if you just replace the brightness of your bulb you dont have to align when you put them in the new socket?

 

you don't need to align the headlights if you just replace bulbs.

 

If you feel that your cutoff or projection alignment has been altered, that is probably due to the poor quality HID replacement bulbs. I see a lot of people replacing OEM 4300k bulbs for china/taiwan made generic ones just to get that hint of "blue" in their light. Cheap bulbs can be a nuisance to other drivers but can also hurt the overall performance of your headlights. They can affect the cut off of your lights and most of them decrease overall light output when you increase to higher Kelvin temp bulbs. If you don't want to shell out the $$ for quality bulbs like Philips, Osram, etc, you are better off with your OEM 4300K bulbs. If you really want to upgrade your lights, you are much better off replacing your stock lenses for the STi-R lenses or the TSX lenses. This will greatly improve your cutoff and also give you the hint of purple hue that we all want just like the lights of euro cars.

 

Don't forget to change the blinker fluid though...

 

so i have 8000K bulbs right now. i love them they are that icy blue and look great. but the people i bought them from says that you dont want to go above 8K because they really decrease your visibility at night so they dont even bother selling them. if i really wanted good quality 10K or even higher for an even more bluer look where is a good quality place to buy them from?

 

Please don't. 10,000k = ricer. 8,000k is even a bit rice imo and that's coming from a Chinese guy. But if you must, I'm sure VLEDS has some.

 

why on earth would you want to do that knowing it will decrease your visibility? if you wanted blue lights, you should have bought a cheap Civic without HIDs and throw in those blue or purple bulbs. what's next? a giant shopping cart spoiler and fast and furious paint job?

 

how easy is the lens swap?
i replaced my stock d2s bulbs with 6k morimotos from theretrofitsource.

my cutoff is not sharp anymore, not sure if that has something to do with the bulbs or whether the guy who painted my headlights messed up as both was done at the same time.

 

The lense swap itself is not that difficult. It does require baking and opening your headlights. However, in order to fully take advantage of the clear lenses, you also have to mod the cutoff shields which brings out the purple/blue hue w/o losing any light output like adding a pair of higher kelvin bulbs. It's not a DIY for any novice working on headlights but definitely do-able if you are patient and can meticulously follow directions. I had my done through 180Custom. Here are some pics from my 08 sedan for your reference.

Custom Headlights w/ STi-R clear lenses + 6000K Philips Ultinons + LED Orb Rings

Here is a DIY I just dug up from driver.

Clear lense swap + Color Mod for G35 (not G37)

*Please note that above DIY is for a G35 and NOT a G37. However, the process is essentially the same.

 

haha wow tough crowd in here... just was wondering man. never said i was officially going to do it. just wondered because some cars like BMW, Range Rover even a 2012 Nissan Maxima from far away their lights look blue/purple and as the closer they get they turn white. i dont know if the stock Infinitis do that or what. what kind of Kelvin does BMW and rang rover use in their head lights?

 

My bad dude, i was just havin' fun with ya about the blinker fluid.. lol

It's not just the K (Kelvin) rating that makes the "look". Like some guys said above, theres other factors involved to the looks you are comparing to.