what type of projectors are those?
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what type of projectors are those?
I just don't like it...lol. That's why I said it's more of a personal thing. It's almost uniformly flat all the way across. It doesn't drop off on the passenger side (on-coming traffic side) to keep glare to other drivers down. I like the distinct look and function of that kind of cutoff. For example, mine:
And to clarify something about projectors:
There are 2 basic kinds of headlight projectors. Those designed for halogen bulbs and those designed for HID's. They are similar but engineered specifically for the type and amount of light the bulb outputs. This is why so many HID's look like crap when just thrown in a non-HID projector. They have more light, essentially, than the halogen projector was designed to focus.
Purists like myself, who like sharp, crisp cutoffs and long-thrown focus will always opt for the more expensive real HID projectors. It's easy to call it light snobbery, but I drive in the dark...a lot in Alaska....so I take the lights seriously.
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I just don't like it...lol. That's why I said it's more of a personal thing. It's almost uniformly flat all the way across. It doesn't drop off on the passenger side (on-coming traffic side) to keep glare to other drivers down. I like the distinct look and function of that kind of cutoff. For example, mine:
And to clarify something about projectors:
There are 2 basic kinds of headlight projectors. Those designed for halogen bulbs and those designed for HID's. They are similar but engineered specifically for the type and amount of light the bulb outputs. This is why so many HID's look like crap when just thrown in a non-HID projector. They have more light, essentially, than the halogen projector was designed to focus.
Purists like myself, who like sharp, crisp cutoffs and long-thrown focus will always opt for the more expensive real HID projectors. It's easy to call it light snobbery, but I drive in the dark...a lot in Alaska....so I take the lights seriously.
Agreed. I like the sharp, crisp, cutoffs and if it's good enough for the asian car scene, it should be good enough for me. One could argue they probably make better headlights/products than other manufacturers, as seen in high end asian auto makers.
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Morimoto Mini H1 from retrofit source. The same projectors I was thinking about getting until I came across some people who recommended the lexus RX projectors as a better fit.
Most people are getting their projectors from here: www.theretrofitsource.com
Not the only place you can get them from, but from experience, they have great customer service (Matt is a great guy to work with) and their prices are reasonable and they carry good projectors. But like Denali said, he's the light guy so he's more knowledgeable in that area. One of the reasons why I'm doing my retrofit is because I saw his thread and it seemed pretty straightforward. Just running into some minor fitment issues, but once I figure that out, it should be smooth sailing from there.
I'm not the light guy, I'm just OCD about my lights....lol.
Matt at TRS knows his stuff as far as the products go, but it's hard for him to tell you exactly what'll fit in every housing out there, so this is where we get to experiment a bit and share successes and failures with each other.
Matt at TRS knows his stuff as far as the products go, but it's hard for him to tell you exactly what'll fit in every housing out there, so this is where we get to experiment a bit and share successes and failures with each other.
hmm i dunno. i'm torn between IPCW projectore(they arent meant for HIDs i dont think), getting a set of depos and retro fitting HID projectors or getting morimoto(but not sure about the mini H1) and fitting them into my clear after market head lights
yep thats the one im talking about. Looks good to me, better than my halo projectors w/ hids. Alot better. And looks much easier to install. Im still on the fence about doing this. I drive alot in the dark also, but not that much, no where near denaliak, lol....
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so question here, i know there are projectors made for HID and halogens, are the depos made for HIDs? from what i see on here everyone is pretty happy with them.. i like the crisp cutoff lines and have had projectors before just have broke down and got them for my tahoe yet lol
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