Joel_980

Shizzle dude. Your heading down the same path as me... Except when both hid lights didn't work on my truck, my wife was driving with our two little girls, only factory fog lights for a 20 min country drive, back roads ... Totally unsafe

kidastra

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think trs tampers with products shipping to Canada? lol I kid.
kudos to your wife!
I swear I'm going to be pissed if I need to pay for shipping for my new ballasts!

Joel_980

I know, it made no sense, but In the moment I didn't debate it because I thought my his issues would be solved, and was willing to pay almost anything to have two working headlights again!!

And now I do, totally trouble free!!!!

(My factory halogen bulbs back in!!! Loving them)!!

kws148

So last night I opened up both my headlights and cleaned the perma-seal out. I was actually really expecting to wrestle with them to get them apart. I got each lense pulled off in about 5 minutes per side. I was/am still pretty excited the lights came apart so well. I just baked them at 260 for 16 minutes. Then I pryed the two tabs back at the corner of the turn signal and used a screwdriver to pry the lense up enough to get my fingers underneath. Then I just peeled the lenses back and off. Seemed to easy almost...

I got a little sloppy pulling the first lense off though and smeared some of that perma-seal on the front of the first lense but no biggie... Maybe tomorrow If I get some more free time I can get after these some more.

Azuri

I typically geek out to much on some of my mods. I made a sound clip video for my exhaust so to keep up the tradition I made one for my retrofitted HIDs. (Bil should put me on his payroll, lol) Some night shots unfortunately not on remote dark roads at this time since I kind of just did this spur of the moment.

Toddman38

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Looks good Azuri, I'm guessing the new Ballasts fixed your issue! I would of flashed my brights at the Silver suv that didn't have they're lights on at night!

Azuri

My new ballasts arrive tomorrow actually they are coming from the other side of the country. These ones work fine up to -15 the day I had firing issues it was -35 here, it warmed up a bit since then. Good catch on the guy with no lights on!

They should have tested those ballasts in this truck:

shimmer

Great video. Wow those things are bright and put my stock halogens to shame. I have been considering the 2013 hids but may go the retro route. Seems to me for a few bucks more you get a higher performing light. My only hesitation is reliability.

Azuri

Well I can't speak about reliability since I've only had them in a couple of weeks. With that being said "reliability" on anything is a crap shoot. You pay to play you can spend the money or go the cheap route and have good or bad results with either, I've read stories that people retrofits outlast their vehicles while others say OEM or go home. Bottom line do your home work and listen to others experiences and reviews and you should get the desired results.

What I can say about these particular retrofits is they blow away stock halogens I can pull up behind any halogen lit vehicle and flood my lane and their lane to the point the driver next to me appears to have his lights off. Regardless if you go with "premium" components for your retrofit or OEM HID you won't regret the decision over halogen IMO.

kidastra

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I think you could aim them a little higher even