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Good replacement headlights?


magnetnerd

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City
Marietta GA
Vehicle Year
1995
Transmission
Manual
Does anyone know where to get some decent replacement headlights? I don't want anything fancy, just something that won't break as I'm installing it and has a decent light output.

In other words, probably nothing from ebay unless someone has had an awesome experience there. Usually lighting from ebay kinda sucks.
 
Are you talking about the bulb itself, or the housing? I really don't know of any issues with either breaking when installing them, however.

The Sylvania bulbs I've used have always lasted me for years. I haven't put a bulb in my Mustang in over 10 years.

EDIT: In fact, those bulbs have now resided in 3 different housings.
 
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Personally I liked the Phillips Nightguides I had in my truck. They had a subtle tri-color beam to them. White, blueish, and yellow - was great on the backroads.
 
I love the Phillips Xtreme Vision in my truck now. Will be using them for now on.
 
Silver Star and Silver Star Ultras here. I've been using them for ten years now with no troubles and better light over stock. I plan to put a set of clear lenses and halogens in my Cherokee as well; far superior light output to the sealed bulbs.
 
How are the Silverstars in snow/blizzard like conditions?
 
Sorry, I meant the housings.

Though bulb recommendations are welcome also!
 
How are the Silverstars in snow/blizzard like conditions?

They work well, but I can't use high beams during real heavy snows. I'm looking to get some fog lamps that allow for yellow clip-on lenses to help with heavy snow and rain.

Sorry, I meant the housings.

LMC truck has some choices for lenses, and they are 50 state legal.
 
Sorry, I meant the housings.

Though bulb recommendations are welcome also!

Anything from TYC. I have new housings on my truck , wifes van , and just put new ones on my dads Toyota Camry. They come with new bulbs too.

I bought them from Amazon and got ones for my truck (94) for something like 60.00.

I highly recommend them..
 
They work well, but I can't use high beams during real heavy snows. I'm looking to get some fog lamps that allow for yellow clip-on lenses to help with heavy snow and rain.

I was thinking I need to do this on my F150 as well. It was hard to see the other night when it was snowing really heavy.
 
I am unclear as to just what you are wanting. I did the 'deep eye' mod on my stock ones, and love it.

Story: I used to polish the stock ones for hours. Then both were cracked due to a gravel truck. So I bought a NOS set. Mega cloudy out of the box, so I had more hours of polishing. Then they clouded over again, in less than three months, with a lot of light loss. I think they were made to cloud! A friend at the county truck/bus shop dropped a dime tip on me...

I took the old cracked set, took off the outer lens (heat gun, small screwdriver, and pliers). Then I bedded flat d.o.t. approved polycarb in their place. Without the original frosted/clouded lens, I had a major light increase, 'aim' is not affected as there is no 'prism' built into the lens, and the replacement poly does not cloud. I even made a point to point it out at the yearly inspection, and it passed.

Even better, a friend, after seeing mine, cut down a stock sliding window which was some sort of plastic, it even has the DOT markings. :D

Then I got some of the clear protective lens film and applied that. You can get colored film too, the school buses use a DOT legal yellow. LMC has some of the clear protective film, if you want to take a look at what I am talking about. I have seen yellow on the school busses, blue on the police cruisers, rose on our volunteer fire engines, and I have seen a green.

I do not know if this would work with anything other than a second generation, 89-92, which have a truly flat bed when the outer lens is removed. The film can be a pain on 'curved' surfaces, such as the marker lights, but with some practice, you can do it.

Without the original 'bubble' lens, the lights are sunk more into the body, a very subtle more aggressive look, hence 'deep eyes'.

I could mount some of the other lamps mentioned above, but frankly I do not need to. Four years and no polishing or clouding. And I still have the other bulbs as spares. :icon_thumby:

Have fun!
 
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Anything from TYC. I have new housings on my truck , wifes van , and just put new ones on my dads Toyota Camry. They come with new bulbs too.

I bought them from Amazon and got ones for my truck (94) for something like 60.00.

I highly recommend them..

I ended up going with these based on your review. Thank you!

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