About to purchase new halo headlights today. Stuck between the black or chrome housing. Any suggestions. The chrome will compliment the car. But the black is killer.

 

Can I convince you to not buy the halo headlights? You will lose much usable light output for the expense of looking cool.

 

Chrome since you have those big chrome rims.

 

please dont buy them they might look good but light output sucks

 

Wow didn't know that i"d be losing usable light. What about the projector type?

 

Usually any aftermarket headlight has less output because the reflectors are not OEM. Even the projectors will have less output. Maybe with a good re-aim and some HIDs, the projectors won't have bad output?

 

i had some TYC proj on my old truck(99 Silverado) wasnt too bad. but also had HIDs the beam wasnt to sharp tho. how bout modding ur stockers?

 

Had a accident a couple months ago. so i got one brand spanking new, and one with nine years of driving. I did the restoration. Made it alot better. But my wife said i could order a new one, so why not get two.

 

what kinda mods to the original can be done

 

Get some 02/03 headlights and call it a day.

 

You can add angel eyes to those if you want.

 

u can paint, clear, add halos, get some 03s convert to HID anything. ide say if u dont wanna buy 03s get some 00s and paint and halo them and ull keep oem quality and still have the look u want. if u wanna get crazy im sure u could retro some proj. in

 

can 02 headlights fit 01 maximas?

 

yes search around and you can find how to's

 

Yes.

 

thanks folks for ya help. might just go wit the 02s. if I can find a good set. I keep hearing the ebay products stink.

 

black out the headlights, i did. search the DIY its hard work, but worth it

lenses are a little cloudy and somehow a moth got into the housing and died, but you get the idea

 

I had a bee in mine. No idea how it got in.

 

Yea i saw one today with them blacked out. looked ok.

 

Then you have two options. You buy the ebay projectors and retrofit HID projectors in them. Here is a picture of that done. Here, the .org member sprayed the chrome shrouds with nightshades.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../tsxretro2.jpg

Courtesy of Dr. Roy.

Your other option is to pickup some 5.5 gen HIDs and call it a day.

 

I'd do a retro to the ebay ones, but get rid of the halos while im in there. Good projectors even with halogens are atleast equal to the OEM 5.5 HIDs.

 

Look at my sig...you can do that to your headlights

 

Those look like the cheap Ebay projectors only they come with rebased (to H4) HID bulbs. Since those are H4 rebased, then they're the same projectors meaning they are the crappy halogen projectors with terrible beam pattern.

I recommend against buying them.

 

There is a Newbie question thread....this isn't it.

IBTL

 

^ +1

 

That's hilarious...and accurate.

 

found a set of used halos on ebay for 100 bucks(the halogen ones). should be here this week. Didn't have to break the bank. Will install and post pics. if i don't like them i'll just resale.

 

Hey that sig is tight. What did you do to them, is that a led strip i see?

 

yes, ccfls and 80/ft leds

 

thanks for the suggestion but there is no way i would go with these even if they were free. there way better out there than that for the same price

 

are urs similar to the ones on the pic i posted. just wondering?

 

you mean ebay lights? lol no i did the work myself