I have a 5.5 and my headlight lenses are pretty ugly.

Does anyone know if the lenses on the ebay headlights would fit on the housing of the oem 5.5 gen headlights
I want to swap the lenses from the ebay lights onto my oem headlights.

Or does anybody have a picture of the back of the ebay headights? thanks

here is a link....the lenses seem to be similar to that of a oem 5.5gen headlight...its a cheaper alternative than buying new headlights

link.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/00-01...Q5fAccessories

 

If you look around most of the ebay headlight adds have pictures of the back of the headlights. i doubt they fit though.

have you tried polishing them? my original headlights were really hazy when i bought the car but i took some brasso to them and like 10 minutes later they looked so much better

 

I have ones almost exactly like that they do fit.. bigger in the back of the headlight that stock tightening up space even more in the engine bay especially on drivers side where the Fuse box battery and now back of your bigger headlight are.. the fitment on the exterior however proved to be exact fitment like they said actually.. The only problem i have had yet with these is one seal on the passenger side was slightly open allowing condensation into the headlight. i removed all condensation by leaving the back part open on a nice day then resealing the seal with Super glue and presto. no problems since.. actually seems to be decent quality... you'll save on price and ease.. however i can tell changing the bulbs on these will be extremely time consuming..

 

Sounds like you thought the OP was asking if this type of headlight will fit on his car, but the question I got from OP was can you bake the outter clear lenses off of the new ones and stick them on the old ones.

I'm curious about this too.

 

yea i was talking about just the outer lense .

ANd yes i have tried polishing them but one of the headlights is just to beat up it doesnt have the clearness to it anymore.

 

Sounds like we may have a taker for being the guinea pig on this!

I would ASSUME it fits properly, since they are "Made by OEM approved manufacturers with quality meet OEM standard"

oh and dont forget...

"Brightness Look, Improve Safety"

and

"Our Lights were use hot plate welding
Pass the1) Vibration test , 2) Salty spray test , 3) Photomatric test"

wtf ever all that means lol

 

lol yea the salty spray test haha... if they do fit ill probably sell the ebay lights on here with my old lenses on it see who takes them lol

 

I could probably tell you if they'll swap over if you post up or send me some pictures of the areas where the lens meets the headlight body

 

They look like different sizes.. and IMHO I doubt they will fit

 

Haha. Way to misread. Start over with this thread and you'll understand.

 

In the time it took you to write your response you could have just clarified what it was the OP was asking...you should have realized this seeing as you are so smart.

 

Why would I go and do that when it was clear from the start? I just decided to inform you that you had it wrong. You can spoonfeed yourself

 

does anyone have these ebay headlights that would be willing to take a couple pics of the back and where the lense meets the back of headlight

 

I have a similar problem with mine. The outer plastic on my left one is cracked, and allows moisture in. Trying to find the stock HID housings "cheap" isn't easy. I am contemplating buying a complete aftermarket set of Halo's or ?? Does anyone have any recommendations of what looks good and has a good fit.

There are several different makes on fleabay, but it's hard to tell what's good, or is it you get what you pay for?

Figure I could sell my stock HID stuff for what I will pay for an aftermarket set of lights.

 

there are many threads on the ebay crap and why would u switch oem for ebaylights they are crap

 

I have a request in to a salvage yard for a new (used) housing. Hopefully someone will come through, and I will keep my stock HID's.

 

Hopefully someone will crash so you can get their headlights LOL

 

Usually the right side gets smashed (left hand turns) so that will get me a good left one.

 

I would like to know if the clear housing fits as well

 

Me too. Anyone?

 

cheap ebay headlights vs oem stock headlights.... I think its worth a try to see if it fits... I just dont wanna spend 150 bucks on new ones, so does anyone want to send me some cracked or junky ebay headlights to find out? lol

 

the top seems to be exactly the same just for some pics of the bottom

 

just wet sand your lenses they will be fine. just search headlight cleaning. wet sanding headlight

http://forums.maxima.org/detailing/3...es-2-08mb.html

http://forums.maxima.org/detailing/5...ning-pics.html

http://forums.maxima.org/5th-generat...storation.html

 

The circled area would concern me. Seems like maybe the aftermarket ones are not quite as wide here. Either that or the fitment of the front facia is not very good.

 

My sisters maxima (the white one with ebay lights) has been wrecked in the front end... the radiator support is still messed up, so i would assume things would be unaligned, especially since her hood doesnt close easily, and neither do the front doors... I'll try to get pics of the bottom in the next few days, but she lives an hour away

 

Ahhh ok well that might explain it then

 

yea that would help alot if you could get those pics..thanks a lot

 

lol when I had on my stock headlights and they started to get like yours I just went to autozone and bought a lenses cleaner its a blue gel like liquid and just simply wipe the lens with a cloth put the gel on and wipe a few time and they looked 90% better almost new.....

 

I've taken nearly every measure to clean the lenses. I have used a simple rubbing compound, I've used the 3M sanding and refinishing kit, I've had them professionally refinished, and I've also clear coated them. and you can still see the light shining through them as if they are still hazy. and that's the OEM headlights you can see in the pics above.

I'm going to try the swap as soon as someone posts in my classified ad for used cheap ebay headlights.

 

Clear coating headlights? That's a first.

 

are you serious??

 

it looks like it will fit perfectly

 

Any updates?

 

they dont fit properly

 

if you do it make sure you seal it good enough otherwise your going to get fog

 

I am going to bump this..


If youre still around, can you elaborate on why it didn't fit? Was it something that a little RTV can fix?