Ill start off by saying im new so if these are stupid questions.. sorry?
Anyway, I searched all over for a new set of eyes but I couldnt find anything that I liked stylewise.. its not worth the hundreds I would spend for custom ones, and the 5.5s are too expensive for me, unfortunately. I DO NOT want HIDs or xenon, I love the color of the sylvania silverstar ultras I just put in. Would I be able to retrofit these bixenon projector lens without issue? Or would the fact that theyre bixenon lens make them incompatible with halogen? Or light output problems? Anything would be helpful honestly. I trust myself with the tools enough to bake the lights open and make the holes and etc.. I just want to make sure it can be done before I waste my money buying the projectors and destroying my eyes and being $130 in the red.
Here is the link for the projectors lens I was looking at

 

I believe there is a mini projector that uses an H1 bulb(mini h1 projector as it is known). it is around the same size as the one that you posted, but is made for h1 bulbs

 

These? I know it says for H1 but It looks as though it has the H4 adaptor like some other similar products have..

So I guess the big question is will it work?

 

with the h1 projectors its the matter of removing lens and in side thing that blocks the bulb n screw on the new projector. Although you would need a harness to enable the highbeam feature. Id prefer thereto because of quality control and warranty.

 

Trust me id love to buy from the TRFS.. but I dont have the $$ for it and even if I did I probably wouldnt spend that much on it..
I know how to install them into the headlight..
is there a difference between a non HID lens VS. a bixenon/HID lens..
Are the lens housing built the same??

 

So I can understand trying to doing thing with a budget, but I'd be careful about some aftermarket projector you get for cheap. The reason I say that is there are projector kits out there with low quality components, horrible beam pattern, and pathetic light output. Not all projectors are created equally. You need to spend time and do some research on the projectors to determine what you want. HIDPlanet is a really good place to start lurking at.

Also if you don't have the money to get the quality part, don't buy it. Everyone has this I need it now attitude, grab the crappy stuff because its what they could afford, and ultimately ended up disappointed. Save the money and do it right is my advice.

S

 

Are there any projector with halogen bulb options?
Thats simply because I do not want hids or xenon bulbs. I have extremely light sensitive eyes and am not a fan of the aftermarket HID setups and even some stock ones. I dont wanna be "that guy" to others who feel the same way as me

 

not sure on the lens question, are you referring to the lenses of projectors?

 

Well, either I guess lol. I just wanna keep my halogen bulbs -_-

 

the mini h1, as long as they are good quality like the morimoto branded ones, will give an acceptable beam pattern . I am not sure if the ones on amazon are clones of the morimoto ones. If you want to stay halogen, but not sure if you want to "chance" it with the ones you posted, you can try and see if you can remove some off of a junkyard car. that will also be a risky endeavor.

 

Welllll said. Good advice.



yes you can buy halogen projectors, they will be cheaper, if that is the route you want to go. Buying cheap parts will leave you very disapointed though. You could easily end up with a worse light output than you have now

 

Im going to install them on a junkyard headlight first and decide if the light output is good enough. If not ill sell them or use them as fogs since my foglights do absolutely nothing

Are there any halogen projectors for H4 bulb style or no? I havent had luck finding any

 

I think they are no projectors for h4 since it is a high and low beam bulb. All projectors that i have found are made for low beam(single filament) bulbs. High/low is done in projectors through movement of the cutoff shield by a solenoid( which i think that those h1 projectors do have IIRC)

 

Join up and read this thread, might have some useful information.

 

Mr. Blue sky is correct. In general, there are no reflector-based bulbs that work in Projector based housings, inversely, there are no projector bulbs that work in reflector based housings to my knowledge.

You will need new bulbs no matter which projector you choose

 

So I still recommend you go to HIDPlanet and do some research. You'll find that you can do a great projector retrofit with HID's, and not be 'that guy'. And even if you don't do the HID's, it's still a wealth of information that you should leverage.

S

 

Thanks for all the replies! Not the answer I wanted to hear.. but the right ones nonetheless. . Thank you!

 

It's all good!

 

Theretrofitsource.com is where i got my stuff

 

if you dont want to go hid and keep halogen, why bother with a retrofit? Just get some silverstar Ultras and call it a day

 

I have them. Color matched my fog lights. I just like the looks of the projectors. I want something that looks different. Id much rather retrofit a projector than buy crappy ebay lights

 

Unfortunately, there are no H4 halogen projectors that I can think of.

Also, I wouldn't buy projectors off Amazon. If you want cheap ones, contact TRS and ask if you can get some from their bargain bin.

 

There are no H4 halogen projector that I know of. OEM Halogen projector uses H11, H7, or H1. All OEM projector are single beam. My 2012 Sienna has Halogen projector with H11 and they have decent beam pattern. MDX and Valeo are also pretty decent. Stay away from Subaru. You could use Mini H1 projector with H1 Halogen, but they are only good functioanlly for high beam application IMO ( due to heat and focal point).

I can assure you that even Mini H1 would be better than stock halogen no matter how you look at it. Heck, even the Mini D2S is better than stock.

You can do retrofit on budget. A good used Mini H1 with all the modification inplaced should be around $60-70/pair. You could probably get a cheaper version from TRS if you are willing to tweak it yourself. Takes time and patience but you save money. Better yet, I would spent the $60 on a good used pair of OEM projector like E46 BiX D2S. You have to go hunting on this, but This thing is so underrated. It has arguably the best projector bowl quality, take 50W ballast nicely, and they are pretty compact. Get a used OEM ballasts/Morimoto for $70/pair, $40 for good used OEM Phillips, $15 for Ebay Wire Harness, $15 "value" shrouds, and $10 rubber caps. For a total of $210, you have a decent good performance and quality components for your retrofit.

And for putting the projector in the fog light, forget it not worth it. For bragging right is all good, but functinality you should be better off with Lexus Capsules retrofit.