Being one of those people that Will Rogers described as needing "to pee on the electric fence themselves" in order to learn things, I bought a set of 7" lights for $20.
[h=1]7" CHROME PROJECTOR CLEAR HEADLIGHTS ROUND W/H4 LIGHT BULBS, seller: carpartsinnovate.[/h]Yup, just like some of you smart guys would've told me, the quality is, um, less than stellar. I probably have never bought anything as sorry as this.
First, the quality of the plastic molding is abysmal. There are actually voids and gaps in the edges where the mold didn't fill all the way.
You know the lugs on the back that are supposed to line up with the notches in the headlight bucket? They aren't indexed with the pattern molded into the inside of the reflector, and then the lens, which has a couple of horizontal lines (just for looks) and the word "TOP" molded into it, isn't lined up with either the reflector pattern OR the indexing lugs.
One of the screws that hold the bulb-clamping spring popped out, the lights had bits of plastic rattling around inside, and the bulbs were blue-coated even though the seller assured me that they were clear.
There was a bonus feature of some little wedge-base lights poked through the reflector (euro-style pilot lights?) with rubber bases. I pulled them out, since they didn't clear the headlight mount bucket. Just pulling them out of the holes tore them, and the rubber was a kind of sticky, gooey stuff. Maybe they are counting on the intense heat of the 100w halogen bulb to finish curing the rubber?
I ground the indexing lugs off and mounted them up anyway, figuring that I'd rather have my round-headlight conversion Trooper finished
and driveable that to have my $20 back.
When it got dark, I aimed them. Not very much light for a 100 watts. High beam is kind of vague--doesn't light the road up past about 50 feet. Low beam has all kinds of distracting light/dark streaks and splotches.
My hopes were pretty modest, and my expectations even lower, but this is truly, amazingly, astoundingly poor stuff.
I'll do some research now and figure out a better plan. May just go buy some cheap halogen sealed-beams at the parts store. I've got pretty nice driving lights on this truck for high-beams, so I can get by with sorry lights for a while. But eventually, I want to get it right. Without spending hundreds of dollars, of course.
Chinese Manufacturing Motto: Abysmal is the new Adequate.
[h=1]7" CHROME PROJECTOR CLEAR HEADLIGHTS ROUND W/H4 LIGHT BULBS, seller: carpartsinnovate.[/h]Yup, just like some of you smart guys would've told me, the quality is, um, less than stellar. I probably have never bought anything as sorry as this.
First, the quality of the plastic molding is abysmal. There are actually voids and gaps in the edges where the mold didn't fill all the way.
You know the lugs on the back that are supposed to line up with the notches in the headlight bucket? They aren't indexed with the pattern molded into the inside of the reflector, and then the lens, which has a couple of horizontal lines (just for looks) and the word "TOP" molded into it, isn't lined up with either the reflector pattern OR the indexing lugs.
One of the screws that hold the bulb-clamping spring popped out, the lights had bits of plastic rattling around inside, and the bulbs were blue-coated even though the seller assured me that they were clear.
There was a bonus feature of some little wedge-base lights poked through the reflector (euro-style pilot lights?) with rubber bases. I pulled them out, since they didn't clear the headlight mount bucket. Just pulling them out of the holes tore them, and the rubber was a kind of sticky, gooey stuff. Maybe they are counting on the intense heat of the 100w halogen bulb to finish curing the rubber?
I ground the indexing lugs off and mounted them up anyway, figuring that I'd rather have my round-headlight conversion Trooper finished
When it got dark, I aimed them. Not very much light for a 100 watts. High beam is kind of vague--doesn't light the road up past about 50 feet. Low beam has all kinds of distracting light/dark streaks and splotches.
My hopes were pretty modest, and my expectations even lower, but this is truly, amazingly, astoundingly poor stuff.
I'll do some research now and figure out a better plan. May just go buy some cheap halogen sealed-beams at the parts store. I've got pretty nice driving lights on this truck for high-beams, so I can get by with sorry lights for a while. But eventually, I want to get it right. Without spending hundreds of dollars, of course.
Chinese Manufacturing Motto: Abysmal is the new Adequate.
I got an email yesterday, just catching up, and he casually mentioned that he needed a set of stock H13 reflectors for tinkering. So my stock Jeep buckets are on the way to him.
