Headlight housing options

My headlights are super foggy, markers are melted, they're just all jacked up and need to be replaced. I'm not against the different options with the light bars, halos, etc, but I know most of them are pretty junk housings with crappy light output. And I can't afford OEM housings at the moment.

Are there any aftermarket headlight housings that aren't complete junk? I know at one point the Depo units were said to be decent, but I feel like I've read they aren't great anymore. This is for a 2005-2011, btw.

 

OEM are truly the only way to fly, but I totally understand a lack of coin these days. That said, keep an eye open for OEM take out housings that pop up when somebody pulls them out to put in the junk aftermarket lights that "look cooler."

 

Have you looked in the for sale group in here

 

I took a gamble on some from fleabay. And at $100 for the set, 2 years later I really can’t complain.

I’m sure there’s better options though.

 

Have you looked into prices for OEM? I just grabbed a new set from Toyota for my 2013 and the price was surprisingly reasonable. Under $300 CAD per light.

 

For some reason, I remembered them being like $400-500 per light, but now that I look, it's not actually that bad.

 

This question comes up quite frequently here and in the end the consensus is aftermarket are mostly junk and will probably leak and OEM is the way to go $$$

 

I recently replaced mine. I was not comfortable with aftermarket. I went to the local Toyota dealer and was quoted $700+tax which would have been $749 OTD. It is possible to go on-line and order directly through Toyota and it would have been $600 + tax + shipping. This was for a set of 2 BTW.

One of my wife's brothers owns a body shop so I asked him to check on getting them through his shop. They were $450+tax which would have been $481. I gave him $500 and told him to keep the change for his trouble. The same dealership that quoted me $750 delivered them to his shop. They still had shipping lapels on the boxes showing they were delivered to that shop from Toyota.

A mechanic could probably get them for the same price. If you know someone who runs a business, it wouldn't hurt to ask them about ordering through them to get a better price.