TECH TIP REVIEW: Fix Aftermarket Touring/Limited Projectors

[Unibomber]

mine are from xenondepot (thanks Steve!)


picture of the filing i did to get the bulb to sit correctly


a lot of people tend to put the bulb with the return wire in the left there

when looking from the back of the projector the return wire (thats at the top of the bulb) should be facing down...just file either a groove at the bottom or make the top part of the opening bigger. I also sanded off the nubs to make it flush



Before fixing and filing



After fixing and filing





not all need to have this done but this is how i got rid of the dead spots

[Unibomber]

i have 6500k in there but the light in the projectors are a bit dim...im thinking either 5000k or 4300k

and these projectors are H1 bulbs

[Unibomber]

how i got it to the best its gonna be for these projectors, was i filed it so where i could move the bulb around until the circles mostly went away

im pretty certain with most of these aftermarket projectors have poor projector bowls and poor lens's

to totally get rid of the half circle look and get 1 solid line of light you will have to retrofit new projectors like acura TSX, TL, honda s2000 or maybe some bmw projectors.

as for the "step" cuttoff line , that is normal so you dont blind the oncoming traffic

[Unibomber]

i had the lights on while i was fine tuning it

yeah i dremmeled em off because the way i have them sitting in there now is not the way they are supposed to sit in there.

see the white return wire there?


that is facing straight down so i filed a channel for it to go in

edit...nail file will work also if you dont have a dremmel for the nubs

[Unibomber]

that groove came like that

i took both nubs off...i also did a test where when i tilted the bulb and put a washer in


this also worked but not as well but it got rid of most of the dead spots

[Unibomber]

all i know is if you file the grooves to where you fit the nubs into the holes...the light will have dead spots

like this