retrofit or not?

[rigo_jones]

im debating in weather or not to retrofit projectors on my tahoe headlights. or should i buy one of those head lights with built in projectors. if any body has the aftermarket headlights with built in projectors could you please include a picture of the light it projects at night. thanks

 

[NathanJax]

Your always going to get better light if you do a proper retrofit. Expensive, but well worth it.

 

[rigo_jones]

yeah thats what i thought ill just do that and do a how to thread i guess.

 

[DenaliAK]

I'm in talks with lightwerkz right now to get these retros:

http://www.lightwerkz.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6220

Waiting to hear back on price, but they do really good work.

 

[DenaliAK]

$675 plus you have to supply two sets of aftermarket headlights for them to piece it all together. So, we're looking at about a grand total. I don't think so. I may try to do the TSX retro myself and save $500.

 

[Eagle]

lol. I think for that price I'd do it myself too. or buy OEMs and do an HID-bulb type swap

 

[rigo_jones]

a G just for retrofit?? nah thats why in doing this myself. i found a pair of audi headlights with built in stock hid for a good price. i had a 2001 a4 turbo and they were pretty good.

one of the easiest way to retrofit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nAPjYTnIQw

 

[MikeTheApeman]

A grand for a retrofit? :naw: Did you check out www.retro-solutions.com by chance?
edited to fix link....sorry Denali

 

[DenaliAK]

I've got a guy locally who has done several and is willing to help me for relatively cheap. I need to supply the parts, though. I'm buying TSX projectors from him, but I need everything else. Any ideas on a headlight assembly that we can bake apart? Can't use my stockers, because the lenses are chipped out and epoxied up, so I have to find new assemblies that he can take apart relatively easily to work with. Any ideas, let me know.

Most aftermarket assemblies are glued together and you can't bake them apart is the problem. I don't want to buy OEM GM assemblies, because I'd like to update the look a bit and they are too expensive.

Mike...thanks for the link. It didn't work, but I found http://store.theretrofitsource.com/index.php and they have most of the rest of what I'll need, so I'll probably get it from them. (shrouds, HID's, ballasts)

 

[MikeTheApeman]

Sorry, I always forget the dash in that url. It's fixed now.

One thing to note though - If you do a retrofit and put (for example) Acura projectors in, your bulb type is going to change from 9006 to D2S...just note that if you have HID's in eBay projectors now, you'll probably have to get new bulbs after the retrofit.