HID replacement question

jdombrowki21 · Aug 30, 2019

SARNCAN said:
They are not actually!

I know a lot of friends who have HID or halogen in their Tahoes/Yukons and they replaced them with third party projection lenses (Hella to be more specific “Hella is a German Brand”) and the result is outstanding and phenomenal !

Check the projection at the attached image (not a GM car here)

God I can't wait to get them in ugh

SARNCAN · Aug 30, 2019

jdombrowki21 said:
God I can't wait to get them in ugh

I don’t know the secret behind GM picking a horrible lens and use it with their cars, my assumption is government regulations regarding light output. I hope it wasn’t a cost reduction issue to them!

Here is a video of the Hella projection

CMoore711 · Aug 30, 2019

SARNCAN said:
They are not actually!

I know a lot of friends who have HID or halogen in their Tahoes/Yukons and they replaced them with third party projection lenses (Hella to be more specific “Hella is a German Brand”) and the result is outstanding and phenomenal !

Check the projection at the attached image (not a GM car here)

So this image above that isn't a GM car looks to be just of a HID projector retrofit, with a tuned projector to maximize color at the cut-off, it looks good. Obviously the intensity and width of the hot spot and light output exceeds our stock GM SUV projector headlights. I'm familiar with how much bigger the hot spot can be, more intense the light can be, and wider beam patterns of various HID projectors and headlight retrofit work. Previous vehicles of mine have had HID projector retrofits and the light output is significantly upgraded over stock.

So your friends with Tahoes/Yukons that have upgraded their projectors; Did they actually just upgrade the lenses on the Tahoe/Yukon OEM headlight projector or did they retrofit an entire different aftermarket projector into their headlights? And which parts were used for their upgrades? Are we talking 2015+ models or older ones?

SARNCAN · Aug 30, 2019

CMoore711 said:
So this image above that isn't a GM car looks to be just of a HID projector retrofit, with a tuned projector to maximize color at the cut-off, it looks good. Obviously the intensity and width of the hot spot and light output exceeds our stock GM SUV projector headlights. I'm familiar with how much bigger the hot spot can be, more intense the light can be, and wider beam patterns of various HID projectors and headlight retrofit work. Previous vehicles of mine have had HID projector retrofits and the light output is significantly upgraded over stock.

So your friends with Tahoes/Yukons that have upgraded their projectors; Did they actually just upgrade the lenses on the Tahoe/Yukon OEM headlight projector or did they retrofit an entire different aftermarket projector into their headlights? And which parts were used for their upgrades? Are we talking 2015+ models or older ones?

Not a retrofit headlight
Shops here can upgrade the lens it self.
They use the existing OEM headlight with the upgraded Hella lens.
Tahoe/Yukon 2015+ yes.

They use an oven to break the seal of the headlight, then they take off the existing lens and install Hella lens. Then they test the output into the wall with a large measurement sheet attached to the wall as the picture.
HID is ok since they have a ballast and Osram D3S
Halogen ones they use Hella ballast with Philips D2S bulbs. On other cars they use Lexus (Denso) ballast. They also use Morimoto HID kit with relays.
It depends on the watts and the size of the lens/bulb socket.
Later then, they use silicon base to seal the headlight back and then into the oven again.

SARNCAN · Aug 30, 2019

jdombrowki21 · Aug 30, 2019

SARNCAN said:
Not a retrofit headlight
Shops here can upgrade the lens it self.
They use the existing OEM headlight with the upgraded Hella lens.
Tahoe/Yukon 2015+ yes.

They use an oven to break the seal of the headlight, then they take off the existing lens and install Hella lens. Then they test the output into the wall with a large measurement sheet attached to the wall as the picture.
HID is ok since they have a ballast and Osram D3S
Halogen ones they use Hella ballast with Philips D2S bulbs. On other cars they use Lexus (Denso) ballast. They also use Morimoto HID kit with relays.
It depends on the watts and the size of the lens/bulb socket.
Later then, they use silicon base to seal the headlight back and then into the oven again.

Wish people around me did this kinda shit

SARNCAN · Aug 30, 2019

jdombrowki21 said:
Wish people around me did this kinda shit

I would say you may try to do it if no one can.
Buy a broken headlight from salvage and use the heat gun to break the seal, then try with a cheep or broken lens.
If you get succeeded, go for it!

CMoore711 · Aug 30, 2019

SARNCAN said:
Not a retrofit headlight
Shops here can upgrade the lens it self.
They use the existing OEM headlight with the upgraded Hella lens.
Tahoe/Yukon 2015+ yes.

They use an oven to break the seal of the headlight, then they take off the existing lens and install Hella lens. Then they test the output into the wall with a large measurement sheet attached to the wall as the picture.
HID is ok since they have a ballast and Osram D3S
Halogen ones they use Hella ballast with Philips D2S bulbs. On other cars they use Lexus (Denso) ballast. They also use Morimoto HID kit with relays.
It depends on the watts and the size of the lens/bulb socket.
Later then, they use silicon base to seal the headlight back and then into the oven again.

I understand the process of upgrading just the lenses of the projectors. But the result of that varies significantly between projectors.

The picture of the headlights against the wall you posted you specifically said (not a GM car here)...

I would be highly interested in seeing before and after pics of 15+ Tahoe/Yukon headlights with just the projector lenses upgraded.

SARNCAN · Aug 30, 2019

CMoore711 said:
I understand the process of upgrading just the lenses of the projectors. But the result of that varies significantly between projectors.

The picture of the headlights against the wall you posted you specifically said (not a GM car here)...

I would be highly interested in seeing before and after pics of 15+ Tahoe/Yukon headlights with just the projector lenses upgraded.

OK sure, check this video.

CMoore711 · Aug 30, 2019

Thanks fo the link, very informative video of what our headlights look like inside once opened up and the projector mounting position.

I'm not sure if that video is for just a lens upgrade... While driving around the driver keeps activating the high beams and if you look at the beam pattern on the building @ 2:56 it looks exactly like the beam pattern of a bi-xenon projector with the high beam activated rather than separate high beam bulbs. Which would require a completely different projector than a stock GM SUV projector. I could be wrong...

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