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Ordering hid lights. A little help please

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Old Dec 26, 2011 | 07:07 PM
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The factory headlights on these trucks SUCK! Plain and simple. I do a lot of miles, mostly at night. Installing the leveling kit helped a little (same as adjusting headlights up higher). Any idea how much retro shop charges to install projectors? I'm considering that route also. I feel like sticking with the oem is downright dangerous.
 
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Old Dec 26, 2011 | 07:20 PM
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Go to www.retroshop.us

Shoot JJ an email and he'll get back with you with a quote depending on what your looking for. He is really good with his customer service replying to your emails and working with yah! I had him do my lights, his work is GREAT! I am in the process of working woth him on tinting my tails :-).
 
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Old Dec 26, 2011 | 07:22 PM
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His prices vary, depending what you want done... It wasn't cheap, but I'll say one of my FAVORITE and WELL worth every single penny!
 
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Old Dec 26, 2011 | 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by newfiebullet
Wow someone got some issues.....
You damn right I do. I have issues with asswipes with pnp glaring blinding hid kits. I have major issues with those.

RETROFIT OR NO HIDS!!!
 
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Old Dec 26, 2011 | 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Cmerritt84
You damn right I do. I have issues with asswipes with pnp glaring blinding hid kits. I have major issues with those.

RETROFIT OR NO HIDS!!!
You couldnt tell him that without calling him a dumb tool??? Now a asswipe? Need to relax bro its only a forum for people to help people. Dont need that kind of attitude on these sites. If you dont like it say so, no need for the name calling though. Smile its Christmas
 
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Old Dec 27, 2011 | 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by newfiebullet
You couldnt tell him that without calling him a dumb tool??? Now a asswipe? Need to relax bro its only a forum for people to help people. Dont need that kind of attitude on these sites. If you dont like it say so, no need for the name calling though. Smile its Christmas
This has been an on going thing with him. I really think he gets off by insulting people and calling them tools and *** hats and so on.... Its almost funny and pretty sad how immature some people are. What can we do, the world is full of them.
 
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Old Dec 27, 2011 | 12:58 AM
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What's ongoing with me is I HATE PNP HIDS!!!! Regardless of who gets em I hate em!
 
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Old Dec 27, 2011 | 11:22 AM
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I don't know how much of a difference it makes having projectors. It seems that the bulb cover in the factory housing would help as far as blinding people. I think that most of the blinding lights that you see are kids who order the brightest light they can get and don't properly adjust them.
 
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Old Dec 27, 2011 | 11:50 AM
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A projector makes a big difference. They have a cutoff shield that cuts off the light above a certain point.

With stock reflectors the bulb cap is no help. They blind bc the reflector is meant for halogen and a halogen vs hid bulb is way different. So the halogen reflector cannot properly focus the hid light causing scattered light which is the blinding glare.
 
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Old Dec 27, 2011 | 11:53 AM
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Here's some pic.

Retrofit:
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Pnp kit:



And no pnp kit will look like this;

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