CLOSED - The Retrofit Source GB

thanks!

 

Just got one sealed up and cooled down from the oven. I'm very happy. Can't wait to get them working tomorrow morning!

 

Those are so clean!

 

Thanks! They took A LOT of work

 

Bought some d2s apollo housings from fs thread. Scored the elite kit from retrofitsource. They also hooked me up with 2 sets of bulb retention hardware. Also scored a set of clear reflectors for the retros. This is what the retro housings looked like but I had some other BHLMs that had loose reflector and a bezel I wanted from them......



Time for a little baking......One black set of 05-11 BHLMs had the loose reflector and had the donor bezels for my soon to be modded retros. The other set were my d2s/apollo morimoto retros. I wanted the bezel from the halogen BHLMs for the fresher black bezel and really yellow blinker lens. The other thing going into the retros were the clear reflectors. The donor BHLM halogen set got the light yellow blinker, black trim bezels with amber reflectors. So here's where lights met oven one at at a time until all 4 were open. Bezels swapped, clears on retros, cleaned lenses, resealed after reheating each one again. Ended up just like I wanted....after switching to clear blinker bulbs instead of amber.






Big thanks to helpful folks at retrofitsource............the lighing is just so much better than any other hids and the projector makes it behave like it should. I now have enough lighting from the headlights that I won't need the hid fogs to help out all the time. Didn't take lighting pics but is nice sharp cutoff adjusted where it is just below rr windows & side mirrors on most vehicles. The difference in the light itself is amazing. So much whiter and brighter and useful than the philips halogens.

 

What's the best way to get my high beam indicator light back?

 

Plug in one of these things into the unused side of the stock wiring harness.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2pcs-H4-HID...-Leakage-Module-AD16-/231013741596?rmvSB=true

 

Realized I forgot to post installed photos here. I love how they turned out!

 

Are they pretty good quality? I saw somewhere that a guy had a set that burned up but looked to be much lower quality

 

Never heard of such thing from any TRS products.

 

No not of TRS parts but of the resistors. They seem very generic on eBay

 

Sorry should've put in a quote to clear things up. Was talking about the post digiratus had of

specifically

 

Anyone interested in guiding me or have a write up of retro fitting 2nd gen headlights???

 

This was helpful in doing mine. Not the exact same, but the process is very similar.

Edit: Would've helped if I remembered to paste the link....http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/lighting/127587-official-hid-retrofit-thread.html

 

Yeah that was mine. The yellow ones burned up. The blue ones are working fine so far but they seem cheaply made. If they act up I will make my own with a heat sink resistor and a heavy duty H3 connector or whatever it is.

Edit: What I really wish is that there was a way to disable that circuit checking "feature" in the Body ECU but I don't have a wiring diagram for it.

 

On the long term but they are doing what they supposed to. If it fails, there is a second one to put in there.

Maybe that's why they sell them in pairs.

 

Anyone have any experience with the morimoto xtorch light bars?

 

No experience here but they seem pretty darn bright in pictures

 

That's what I was thinking. I like them cause there really low profile too. I don't like the whole shiney kinda of look you get with the double row led bars.

It says it comes with Amber covers, but I wonder how much they cover the bar. Like the whole thing? Or just the ends?

 

I see what you're talking about. It just states that it comes with amber covers, not sure how many. That's something @TRSAndrew would have to answer