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can i use 5th or 6th gen headlight housing unit? on 1998 nissan maxima

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Old 09-23-2012, 11:57 AM
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can i use 5th or 6th gen headlight housing unit? on 1998 nissan maxima

Long story short i bought a hid kit from a store. i asked if it was legal and if the lighting was bleeding too much. i was told it was legal and that they were just bright. i want to get proper headlight fixture and was thinking the best and easiest way would use a 5th or 6th gen headlight unit and just put my hid kit in there/adjust lighting for hight and not have to worry about bleeding. Is this a viable solution? if not what is the cheap man way around this solution.

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Originally Posted by mail1853579
Long story short i bought a hid kit from a store. i asked if it was legal and if the lighting was bleeding too much. i was told it was legal and that they were just bright. i want to get proper headlight fixture and was thinking the best and easiest way would use a 5th or 6th gen headlight unit and just put my hid kit in there/adjust lighting for hight and not have to worry about bleeding. Is this a viable solution? if not what is the cheap man way around this solution.

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come again??????? this is not feasible.
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if youre asking what i think youre asking(hard to tell), then what you want to do is get a pair of j30 headlights, and do a retrofit with their projectors. theres a bajillion threads on it. you cant just use another gens headlights. our bumper, support, hood, other lights, pretty much whole front end, will be in your way.

to make things short you cant just put any car parts on any car.
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wait wait, heres the cheap solution:

put the lights in your headlights. turn them on. drive.
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Old 09-23-2012, 12:08 PM
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Just do a projector retrofit.
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Old 09-24-2012, 12:47 AM
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im a noob so i was under the impression that i could use a newer model part and hopefully it would fit for an older model.

basically i want to swap out/mod original lights
it so that it has that circle eye/orb in this picture
i want to do this as i feel the light from my car does not project low enough and thus blinding drivers ect
edit-found some guides.
ty

ive seen a few posts about http://www.theretrofitsource.com as well as http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/forum.php
if im trying to noob my way out what would i need? i got my hid plug and play kit. i assume eyes and housing?

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Old 09-24-2012, 04:31 AM
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This with bulbs:
http://www.theretrofitsource.com/pro...oducts_id=3181

And this harness:
http://www.theretrofitsource.com/pro...ducts_id=14032

You can reuse your ballasts.
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if its too much of a hassle to rearrange everything you can always smoke/tint your headlights
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Originally Posted by MaxFiyah
if its too much of a hassle to rearrange everything you can always smoke/tint your headlights
That'll hurt output.
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