I'm sure your opinion about retrofitting is as value as those opinions that criticize the Anzo headlights with HID. The big difference between retrofit and using aftermarket headlights is that retrofitting are using OEM HID projectors that was design to output HID. Anzo projectors are design for halogen and are more effective with halogen use. HID projectors distribute lights widely and evenly. As you can see, Anzo projectors centralize all lights in the center. Sure it is cheaper to go with Anzo headlights, but you get what you pay for. Go to one of the dealers and ask for HID headlights with ballast, it will cost you more than $1000 for a pair for any car that takes HID. And having straight cutoffs is not for the look, it is to make sure that no lights exceed certain height limits.

There are several studies that suggest the use of HID kit is unappropriate and cause glare. Go google them, and you'll see.

 

Dont worry all of the leds and halos will go out soon as well as water fogging, and I think I have the same projector foggs it makes me mad, the box says ultra white and they shine yellow. Just doesnt make sence wheres johnny cockrin when we need em

 

I disagree with HIDs in general outside of a projector designed for them, but I still have to say that your car looks great. The factory lip kit is still the best when combined with a drop in my opinion.

 

Cool..so i just got back from taking some more shot and these are way better quality than my cell phone.. now feel free to judge.. i was deleting my license plate but eh... we all got love for each other.. and the date is off because i just got the camera and forgot to adjust it.. i hadn't read all the stuff you guys had wrote but man... talk about a bunch of bull.. not cool... please if you guys are not going to say anything nice then it better you just don't say anything at all ...you guys know that already... i know TSX and TL and S2000 have better projectors but remember your running those on higher end cars unlike the tc its more affordable for more people..but whateva i like them and thats all that matters..and by the way..the i get sOOOOO many complements on how cool the lights look... its all about being unique.. but other than that here are some new pics i just got for the people that like and the ones that hate them





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and the pic i like the most...ohhhh lol

 

Here is a picture of what the cutoff looks like with the halogen bulbs in them. It might be an ugly and horrible cutoff to some, but I am not willing to spend $900-$1600 on a set of headlights and HIDs. Out of the current line of aftermarket projector headlights out there, these in MY OPINION are the best. I'd rather have this cutoff than the Vertex Racing "\ /" cutoff or stock OEM for that matter.

 

Any pics with just the halo's and led's lit up?

 

about the eight pic down.. i wrote something.. its kinda hard to take a pic of just the halo since they are so bright.

 

I think that cutoff is better than the OEM halogens, the important piece, IMO, is the cutoff on the left side. That's pretty sharp considering these were made for halogens. As long as that side is controlling glare for on coming traffic I don't see why the right side matters that much. It's not like it matters when a car with HIDs is behind you anyway, still blinds the crap out of me.

 

there's not supposed to be a cutoff on halogens since it doesnt have a projector?

 

is it just me or does that go up extremely high on the right side?? I have HID in stock housings and they don't even go up that high.

unless your willing to break it open and tack on a better cutoff inside the projector I would just stay with stock and save your money.

 

I know the projectors have up and down adjustments but do they have adjustments for the cut offs?

 

Someone on here broke open their projector and added a piece of metal to the cutoff and it straightened it out a bunch.

I think though there is a way to level them off a bit but I'm not sure how as I don't own them.

 

I hate to pop the bubble, but you can customize them as you wish, the quality will not be better than what aftermarket has to offers.

 

you have to use common sense when posting. if someone dosent like your ish, there gonna tell you. thats the price you pay for posting! thought that was common sense. if we posted "oh man those are hot" to every mod, we'd have alot of big headed owners w/ the ugliest tC's..

cutoff is poor, there is glare, if having crappy custom HID projectors is the definition of "unique", then we are all in trouble... TBH, what is so unique about your halogen projectors w/ HIDs anyways?
out of curiousity, what do you have stuck into your headlights now? anzo's plus HID kit is what? over 4 bills right? but that is an ok amount to spend on stupid lights? just trying to figure out yoru though process...

 

that is the most unknowledgeable HID/projector post ive read yet.

 

unique in the sense that not everyone has the anzo with HID's in em.. I also understand the concept that when you post something on here its gonna get critized by other.. but like i said.. if you wanna be plain simple and boring then keep the stocks.. dont fix your car up..matter of fact sell the damn thing you own and just ride the bus... if your so worried about the glare... you get glare from the stocks as well so whats your point... either way at the end of the day its my car and if i want to add more stuff to it to make it one step up rather than being plain and boring like you are than thats my desicion... by the way i created this post so that others can see what other options they have to modify your tc and not to please the haters.. so whatever..

 

I think a mod better lock this before it gets any uglier.

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so you have "unique" glare? your getting critized as you are spending alot of money on concepts but not getting the output that the concept is designed for. u want the look and feel of HID projedtors, but dont want to pay the price. your expecting everyone to be like "OMG that is so awsome" when we've all been around the block to know thats not the case. im not sure adding glare and hot spots are a mod. and personaly, i dont think my car is boring. if boring means clean, then im glad to be boring. but id rather be boring than have over 4 bills into a mod and not get a classy output.. but that is just me... and its great that you like it, but you need to take a video of you driving down the road w/ a camera on a tripod and u coming at it from the other lane then behind you a stock tc.. or the camera in another car coming at each other on a 2 lane.. i think you'll be surprised.

 

Just about everyone who has posted comments on this thread probably knows more about cars then I do, but I can say that you can't look at pictures and assume that there is glare. Seriously, there's no way to tell until you see it in person. If you take a picture of headlights at night, the camera will adjust itself to show glare. Half the HID glares that I see on the road are cars that come with HIDs stock anyways.

I'm running a similar set up and I've driven with my friends to places and all of them have said that there's no glare, from any direction.

Downsides: Just so you know man, seal the edges up because these things fog up like none other. And I give you 2 months before you start complaining about LEDS going out.

 

I agree with this poster. I went to take some random shots tonight of my car with a couple friends. All of them really like my headlights as well and were snapping pictures of them illuminated and every shot came out blurry or not as sharp as what we were looking at in person. It's one thing to see the niceness in person and another to snap a picture and for it to come out blurry. I don't support either side of this "debate", but I am happy I made the purchase of these headlights. If I thought I was going to put other drivers at risk by blinding them, then I would not have purchased these lights (currently using halogen with my Anzos).