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Maxima R34 Type Dual Reflector Headlights INSTALLED
The moment you've all been waiting for!
Headlights are 9006 low beam and 9005 high beam. They come pre-wired with an adapter to change our 9004 connector into a seperate low/high setup. All you do is plug in the connector and you're good to go. The headlights even come with new bulbs.
To bolt in the headlight, they included a small bracket that bolts into the 2 mounting holes on the outer side of the headlight/corner area. The new headlight then bolts into the bracket. The other two mounting points on the inner part of the headlight slip right into the stock mounting holes.
As far as fitment goes, it sits flush with the fenders, body and grill. And they do "bolt right in", HOWEVER, they do not fit perfectly. The mounting points were a little bit off and I had to cut away some of the plastic in order for the grill to fit. Not hard, you just need 30 seconds and a razor knife or drill of some sort. You need to enlarge these two plastic mounting holes. You'll know what I mean when you try to bolt on your grill (it won't really fit that well).
Disclaimer: I apologize for the low quality of the pictures but my new 8mp digital camera I bought from newegg broke, and instead of sending me a replacement camera, they sent me a refund. Go figure.
Excellent, somones ganna make a lot of money... Thanks for testing them out for us. I must have logged on at least 20 times today to check if you had tested them.
then i scrolled down to see "plastic" which made me less angry at myself for not waiting for these. i wanna see the black versions installed as well...
get diamond bumper lights to go with your lights. youll be 3x happier when u see the difference
Beam pattern is not very good. From the factory the lights were aimed really low. Good thing there was an adjustment screw on the back so I raised them up. Unfortunately light output is not better than the stock 9004. There seems to be a hotspots in the beam pattern. Because of this, I say these are an ideal candidate for a projector retro.
I was getting ready to order a set until I saw the light output. Now I'm not sure. Would you say that the output is worse than stock?
From my recollection from memory, the stock lights outputed two bright globs of light on the ground.
The new lights output what seems to be 2 bright globs from each healight. The inner most bright glob from both headlights combines into one bright spot in the middle.
I haven't had a chance to drive around yet (downed several beers after finishing), so we'll see. My initial impression is that overall light ouput might be worse than stock, BECAUSE there are bright spots and everywhere in between doesn't seem to be lit up that well.
i dont have any retrofitting plans in my future rite now, so if the output isnt worse than stock or not MUCH worse than stock i dont think i would really mind getting them anyways.
Those in black + HID projector low beams = perfection.
Already in the plans
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Originally Posted by Geo T
Lights & fitment look great! Just get night pics of the front to see how they look.
I can't take pics of the lights at the from the front. Camera phone sucks at taking night pictures. A side shot is the best it can do. A front angle shot just results in two big globs of light. Can't tell what anything is.
and i was gonna be the black housing guinea pig. damn u beam pattern. any retrofitters wanna help a guinea pig?
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