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Good morning. I've mentioned in another thread that I was undergoing an HID projector retrofit. Due to the limited amount of time I had to work on it at any given moment, I didn't take any progress pictures. If anyone is interested in doing a similar retrofit, feel free to ask any questions and I'll do my best to answer them.

 

Back in November, during TheRetrofitSource.com's Black Friday special, I bought the Morimoto D2S III Mini kit. It includes everything you need to complete a retrofit, other than the butyl rubber needed to seal the lights back up. You could use silicone, but the butyl is so easy to work with and will make opening the lights back up, if needed, so much easier.

 

I'll say that opening the factory lights, or even aftermarket lights, is not quick or easy. This takes a lot of self control. My first attempt was on the factory light, right off of our Edge. It didn't go well.... at all. I managed to crack the chrome bezel inside the light, tore up the channel that holds the glue that seals the lens to the housing, and still never got the entire lens off. I siliconed it back together and did some more research. Found out I wasn't heating my oven up high enough, or for long enough. The 'permaseal' glue wasn't getting hot enough to even remotely soften, so it was like trying to work with hardened concrete. 270*F at 17 minutes is the sweet spot, and even then, you've got to work quickly and put the light back in the oven for a few minutes at a time to keep the glue semi-soft.

 

Anyway, I started over with an aftermarket light and was successful. Took me a couple months to order the other housing and then another month or so to retrofit that light. I just finished a couple weekends ago, and here are the results.

 

Feel free to ask any questions or provide your comments.

 

Thanks,
Mark

 

 

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Thank you! Great questions!

 

What I didn't show a picture of, was the original headlight alignment when I first fired them up. It wasn't great! But, in a matter of minutes, I had a perfectly level beam pattern. Part of the modification to the headlight housing, at least with this specific projector, is that you need to expand the size of the hold in the back of your housing where the original headlight bulbs sits. I used a dremel tool to cutoff the entire cylinder that comes out the back of the housing. It's hard to explain what I mean without pictures, or without someone looking at the back of the light. Essentially, if you take the rubber dust cap off of your low beam light, you'll see the back side of the reflector bowl. There's a ~2" wide cylinder that protrudes out about an inch or inch and a half. That whole thing need cut off, and the headlight bulb hole, widened to accept the threaded end of the projector. I want to say that threaded end is just over an inch and a half wide.

 

Once you have the reflector base modified to accept the projector and you lock the projector down with the provided locking ring/nut, you'll have two ways of adjusting your beam pattern. Either with rotation, which is as simple as loosening the locking ring/nut a little and rotating the projector a little bit and re-locking down that ring/nut. If your beam is either high or low, then you can use the factory adjuster on the top of your housing. Take a screwdriver and turn it, which tilts the entire reflector housing up or down. I should mention, I fired these lights up for the first time, before putting the lenses back on. I wanted to make sure that any major adjustments weren't needed before sealing them back up and having to bake them back open! Luckily, nothing major was needed and I was able to quickly align them and then seal them up.

 

I forgot to mention, I went with the 'square' projector as I thought it would be somewhat unique, but also look OEM inside of the Edge headlamp. That partition inside of the headlamp is pretty square/rectangular, so the square projector just looks right inside of it. I really wanted an OEM-look, so I stuck with a chrome shroud and didn't paint anything.

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Good morning. I've mentioned in another thread that I was undergoing an HID projector retrofit. Due to the limited amount of time I had to work on it at any given moment, I didn't take any progress pictures. If anyone is interested in doing a similar retrofit, feel free to ask any questions and I'll do my best to answer them.

 

Back in November, during TheRetrofitSource.com's Black Friday special, I bought the Morimoto D2S III Mini kit. It includes everything you need to complete a retrofit, other than the butyl rubber needed to seal the lights back up. You could use silicone, but the butyl is so easy to work with and will make opening the lights back up, if needed, so much easier.

 

I'll say that opening the factory lights, or even aftermarket lights, is not quick or easy. This takes a lot of self control. My first attempt was on the factory light, right off of our Edge. It didn't go well.... at all. I managed to crack the chrome bezel inside the light, tore up the channel that holds the glue that seals the lens to the housing, and still never got the entire lens off. I siliconed it back together and did some more research. Found out I wasn't heating my oven up high enough, or for long enough. The 'permaseal' glue wasn't getting hot enough to even remotely soften, so it was like trying to work with hardened concrete. 270*F at 17 minutes is the sweet spot, and even then, you've got to work quickly and put the light back in the oven for a few minutes at a time to keep the glue semi-soft.

 

Anyway, I started over with an aftermarket light and was successful. Took me a couple months to order the other housing and then another month or so to retrofit that light. I just finished a couple weekends ago, and here are the results.

 

Feel free to ask any questions or provide your comments.

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

 

What shrouds are those?

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