And I'm back with a Limited

[orange57]

That’s pretty damn cool! Paid that forward and prolly never saw it coming back your way.


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I have bought and sold a lot of cars. When ever I sell something I try to make sure that I would be comfortable taking it on a drive across the country. Or I make sure I fully disclose the issues it has. When someone buys a vehicle it is usually a big chunk of money for them. I never want someone to drive a car away from me and have to dump $1000 into it for something I neglected to mention. The only issue I was having at the time was a small oil leak from the front end of the oil pan. Gave him a new pan gasket at the time. He never fixed it, just lived with it as it wasn't that bad. And even gave me the gasket set back

I'm glad that it worked so well for him and that he was happy to sell it back to me 30K miles later.

 

[W8TVI]

Yep, those are the OEM wheels . Even has the matching spare. I put those lights in it 3 years ago. The AZ heat and sun is not kind to plastic. Or black paint

My dad has a '98 Sierra, and we got some nice glass lens headlights. They have been on there a couple of years and they still look perfect.
I have not seen glass lens turn signals, but at least you can keep the headlights looking great.

They are made by Spyder Auto. I think he got them here on Amazon.

We also swtiched all his other lights in the truck (excluding the dashboard) to LEDs (You can actually see things inside the cab now!). If you convert your lights to LEDs, make sure you install an LED compatible turn signal flasher. They are cheap and you won't get hyper-flashing that way.

 

[orange57]

My dad has a '98 Sierra, and we got some nice glass lens headlights. They have been on there a couple of years and they still look perfect.
I have not seen glass lens turn signals, but at least you can keep the headlights looking great.

They are made by Spyder Auto. I think he got them here on Amazon.

We also swtiched all his other lights in the truck (excluding the dashboard) to LEDs (You can actually see things inside the cab now!). If you convert your lights to LEDs, make sure you install an LED compatible turn signal flasher. They are cheap and you won't get hyper-flashing that way.

I will have to look at the glass ones. Glass shouldn't fade. But they can chip and crack. I think the headlights on my Saab are Glass, and the previous owner put a protection sheild over them, about 1/8'' thick. Which could be an option to prevent rocks from breaking them.

The output is pretty dismal. Ideally I would love to do an HID conversion, but I don't do a lot of driving at night.

 

[petethepug]

Lamin-x, I swear by the stuff. It can be placed over pitted plastic turns and conceal 98% of the damage and they’ll look new.


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[W8TVI]

I will have to look at the glass ones. Glass shouldn't fade. But they can chip and crack. I think the headlights on my Saab are Glass, and the previous owner put a protection sheild over them, about 1/8'' thick. Which could be an option to prevent rocks from breaking them.

The output is pretty dismal. Ideally I would love to do an HID conversion, but I don't do a lot of driving at night.

Unless you can find some quality projectors, I would stay away from HIDs in reflectors. I have never seen an HID setup that hasn't put out huge amounts of glare. 9011 HIR bulbs for the low beams makes a lot of difference in brightness, and with the new headlight lenses, so should see a huge improvement with all of the light from your headlights actually making it to the road.

I have yet to try LEDs in low beam reflectors, but I am using a good set (read not cheap) LED bulbs that are designed to replicate the light output pattern of a halogen filament, so the light goes to the road where it belongs, and not into peoples eyes.

 

[orange57]

Unless you can find some quality projectors, I would stay away from HIDs in reflectors. I have never seen an HID setup that hasn't put out huge amounts of glare. 9011 HIR bulbs for the low beams makes a lot of difference in brightness, and with the new headlight lenses, so should see a huge improvement with all of the light from your headlights actually making it to the road.

I have yet to try LEDs in low beam reflectors, but I am using a good set (read not cheap) LED bulbs that are designed to replicate the light output pattern of a halogen filament, so the light goes to the road where it belongs, and not into peoples eyes.

I won't put HIDs in the reflector. It would be some kind of projector retrofit. I can't stand it when people put HIDs in a reflector and just blind everyone. I won't do that to other drivers.

 

[fastpat]

My wife's older car's HID lights, on a 2000 BMW 540i wagon, worked well after they lighted off and arrived at full power. They were low beams only because HID can't be used for intermittent use as high beams.

LEDs eliminate that. My wife's current car, listed in my signature file below, has no HID or incandescent bulbs anywhere. It's 100% LED. I love that because it's likely that that we'll have the vehicle for a long time, we typically keep a car for more than 15 years, the LEDs should last for our whole ownership period.

 

[orange57]

I wouldn't be opposed to an LED solution, or even a halogen projector, providing it worked well. I have HID's in my SAAB and in my wife's Buick, and they do a really good job of lighting up the road.

on my SAAB the HID's are both High and Low beam. SO I am pretty sure you can have them for that. On the Tahoe I think that would me 4 projectors though.

I don't drive a night a lot, so it isn't near the top of my lsit.