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These came in yesterday, the rain didn’t want me to install them, sorry for the blurry vid/pic, but the fitment is a little funky to me, can I swap the brackets with the stock ones? or do I have to adjust and just deal with it? Thanks in advance
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These came in yesterday, the rain didn’t want me to install them, sorry for the blurry vid/pic, but the fitment is a little funky to me, can I swap the brackets with the stock ones? or do I have to adjust and just deal with it? Thanks in advance
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You can transfer your oem brackets over. Also--if you don't want them to fog or leak--run a thin bead of silicone around the inner edge of the lenses and put some dialectic grease on the bulb gaskets. Aftermarket lenses ALWAYS fog.
 
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I got the fitment little better but when I take them out to put led bulbs in I’m going to silicone you like you said appreciate that help


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You can transfer your oem brackets over. Also--if you don't want them to fog or leak--run a thin bead of silicone around the inner edge of the lenses and put some dialectic grease on the bulb gaskets. Aftermarket lenses ALWAYS fog.
It won’t let me post another pic of the finished product but fits back snug I just had to do some minor adjustments without trying to swap the brackets


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These came in yesterday, the rain didn’t want me to install them, sorry for the blurry vid/pic, but the fitment is a little funky to me, can I swap the brackets with the stock ones? or do I have to adjust and just deal with it? Thanks in advance
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check your pin alignment, there are 2 holes, one on the top and the one on the bottom, looks like you might not have the pins in the bottom holes and it's making the lights point up, either that or you need to adjust them both down, see the big gap under each housing.
 

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I had to swap my oem brackets to my aftermarket lights. The lights came with thin, cheap brackets that were useless.
 
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I had to swap my oem brackets to my aftermarket lights. The lights came with thin, cheap brackets that were useless.
They are thin and cheap haha that’s why u was think about swapping them out


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check your pin alignment, there are 2 holes, one on the top and the one on the bottom, looks like you might not have the pins in the bottom holes and it's making the lights point up, either that or you need to adjust them both down, see the big gap under each housing.
Yeah i was planning on getting out there a little later and trying to fix the gap, looks like I just gotta play with that side


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The headlights on these always have big gaps. Adjust them for level following some aiming instructions you can find online and it the gaps still look uneven you probably don’t have the pins installed correct like Wes said. Once you get them adjusted and the pins are in right, you can make the gaps look better by going to Home Depot and buying some black rubber self- adhesive weatherstrip, remove the lights and apply it around the perimeters. Mark the outside edge of where you want the weatherstrip to sit at by using a sharpie on the headlights, marking the places where the fender and grill meet the headlight. Pull the headlights and apply the foam and remove the sharpie marks with alcohol. This is what I used. I don’t have the part number.

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The headlights on these always have big gaps. Adjust them for level following some aiming instructions you can find online and it the gaps still look uneven you probably don’t have the pins installed correct like Wes said. Once you get them adjusted and the pins are in right, you can make the gaps look better by going to Home Depot and buying some black rubber self- adhesive weatherstrip, remove the lights and apply it around the perimeters. Mark the outside edge of where you want the weatherstrip to sit at by using a sharpie on the headlights, marking the places where the fender and grill meet the headlight. Pull the headlights and apply the foam and remove the sharpie marks with alcohol. This is what I used. I don’t have the part number.

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That looks good


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