4loco

I recently bought aftermarket headlights from some website. It didn't say anything about the brand, it just said OE Replacement part. The price is pretty damn cheap, only $213 shipping included.

When the headlights arrived, I saw the brand is Eagle Eyes. It fits find, and looks okay. But after I installed my HID, the light's output is super weird.

This is how it looks :


and when I'm driving in the street, the light is aiming on the side of the road, not in front of my car. So it's kinda difficult to drive in the dark area.

Is that because the projector material itself is cheap? or is it because the glass on the housing is low quality?

Can I do something about it? I'm thinking to open the housing and change the projector to different kind (TSX projector) ; kinda retrofit it. But I guess if the outside glass of the housing itself is cheap material, it's useless, isn't it?

Thanks for any advice.

Mauby

Did you try turning the bulbs?
I mean literally turning them, that can change the directionality of the beam.

What about adjusting the whole light?

XIEmperorIX

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I doubt adjusting the light will help. Those headlights were cheap for a reason. Your best bet is going to be a retrofit.

Eziekel

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yeah those headlights are cheap. stick with the halogen bulbs or retrofit projectors

XIEmperorIX

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Chances are the projectors on those lights (I assuming they have projectors) are only meant for halogen bulbs anyway.

4loco

I guess the bulb won't be able to turned around since the housing has a pattern that exactly match with the H11 bulb pattern itself.

The whole light can be adjust up and down only. Not left and right.


thats what i thought of. but is not because the glass of the housing that make the output so crappy?

and yeah, if I use halogen bulb, the lights output is fine.

XIEmperorIX

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glass housing? Are you talking about the plastic that surrounds the headlight? If so no that shouldn't have any affect on the output unless it is damage in some way (i.e. moisture or it's faded).

4loco

yeah thats what i meant. I guess i'm gonna try to retrofit it then.

Phanon_TC

not sure if itll work on those but they work on OEM 08 headlights to do an easy retrofit

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/pro...roducts_id=254

4loco

did you try to retrofit your OEM projector?

and how's the quality of Morimoto Mini Bi-xenon projectors?

XIEmperorIX

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I have seen pictures of the kit for the 2008+ wrx and they look like they are great quality. I plan on buying this kit for my 11 wrx so I can let you know how it is. No idea when I will get it done though lol

XIEmperorIX

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Bringing this back a bit. I got my morimoto kit from retrofit source for my WRX..haven't installed it yet but in case anyone is interested here is what (at least my kit) it looks like.



If anyone is interested I'll post pics of the finished product