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Old 02-02-2016, 03:54 PM
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Everything is finished up. I'll update the how to portion of this thread tonight or tomorrow. I'm really happy with them. I'll get some better pics too
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Old 02-04-2016, 10:55 PM
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Looks awesome man! Good work
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Originally Posted by Connor97
Looks awesome man! Good work
Thanks definitely was time consuming but it was all worth it. The output is awesome
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Missed that you had finished. Looks good.
It really makes me want to finish mine. I am tired of looking at the holes in my valance where the lights are supposed to be.
Probably won't be till summer though with work and school.
I also still have my wife's Scion I need to do (but I have a spare set of housings, so no rush on those).

You have the TRS D2S projectors in the headlights, right?

Hard to tell from the pics, but looks like you could probably aim the fogs up a little higher (and to me looks like the headlights are too high, but hard to tell from the pic
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Originally Posted by blupupher
Missed that you had finished. Looks good.
It really makes me want to finish mine. I am tired of looking at the holes in my valance where the lights are supposed to be.
Probably won't be till summer though with work and school.
I also still have my wife's Scion I need to do (but I have a spare set of housings, so no rush on those).

You have the TRS D2S projectors in the headlights, right?

Hard to tell from the pics, but looks like you could probably aim the fogs up a little higher (and to me looks like the headlights are too high, but hard to tell from the pic
It definitely to me a long time to finish them lol I need to update the how to. School is what put mine on hold too. But thank you! And yep headlights are D2S 3.0 running 55w 6500k bulbs and the fogs are 35w 5500k bulbs. And the fogs arnt aimed right in all of those pics but the headlights are are aimed 2 inches below the center of the housing. In the pic of just the fogs they were too low. I'll try to get some better pictures today
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Gotcha'.
My plan was to aim the fogs just a bit below the headlights lower cutoff and then adjust to what looked best.
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Originally Posted by blupupher
Gotcha'.
My plan was to aim the fogs just a bit below the headlights lower cutoff and then adjust to what looked best.
That will kinda work. It will look good on the wall at like 25 feet, but the fog light cut off will be shinning way above the headlights at like 100 feet because of the angle they are at. I originally did it to where I just thought it was straight out, then I hoped on the interstate later that night and I was lighting up the over head road signs way down the road. Now I have the the cut off aimed 1 inch below the center of the light and it's perfect, I can see the road better too since they are aimed lower. And now the cut offs don't cross
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I may do this with a set of Depos for the 97-98 as our foglights are huge. I will be redoing my retro fit into a new set of housings. Even good LED's die..
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Originally Posted by Carcrazygts2
I may do this with a set of Depos for the 97-98 as our foglights are huge. I will be redoing my retro fit into a new set of housings. Even good LED's die..
Part of one of my Xb halos just went out the other day :/ not even a year old too. You are doing ls460s right?
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Originally Posted by 2thousand5.4
That will kinda work. It will look good on the wall at like 25 feet, but the fog light cut off will be shinning way above the headlights at like 100 feet because of the angle they are at. I originally did it to where I just thought it was straight out, then I hoped on the interstate later that night and I was lighting up the over head road signs way down the road. Now I have the the cut off aimed 1 inch below the center of the light and it's perfect, I can see the road better too since they are aimed lower. And now the cut offs don't cross
Yeah, I meant have them about level at driving distance (150' +), not at the 25' distance.
But as you have found, until you get them mounted and drive with it, kind of hard to figure out.

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