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so i have tried all i know, from restoring my lenses, to spending 80 bucks on a set of bulbs, and they just arent bright enough. they are great if im the only car on the road, but as soon as theres a newer car behind me i create a shadow in their headlights. any ideas?:fit:
 

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they are great if im the only car on the road, but as soon as theres a newer car behind me i create a shadow in their headlights. any ideas?:fit:

So they work fine, but when a car with brighter headlights comes by and you actually see how bad they really are, then they're not good enough?

Yeah sounds about normal.

Solution: buy a new car.
 

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The SHO has ****** lighting. Always has, always will. The lens design just sucks. You can try getting brand new housings (for a mercury... uh, whatever the mercury taurus was), which will help, but not a whole lot.

Buy a new car.
 

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The SHO has ****** lighting. Always has, always will. The lens design just sucks. You can try getting brand new housings (for a mercury... uh, whatever the mercury taurus was), which will help, but not a whole lot.

Buy a new car.

Sable headlights, like 40$ or 50$ new from ebay. I would say get silverstar ultra light bulbs because if i tell you to get HID's like myself we will start to whole HID argument.
 
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Maybe it's just me, and the fact that I don't own a vehicle newer than a 1995...

I replaced my headlights with aftermarket Sable units from Rock Auto a couple of years ago, along with Sylvania Xtra Vision bulbs (cheaper than Silverstars, and I never cared for Silverstars). After doing all of this, I made sure to align them properly, and I've had no issues at all with headlight output.
 

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Once i took good care of my old fogs and put yellow HIDs in them and it was fine also. AND it will not blind anyone, but will not give you that distance of lightning that you may want. The best thing, I think to do is to re-trofit projectors into your factory housing and find any clear lenses.
 
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Harness upgrade,good bulbs and clean housings its very simple.
My headlights in the SHO are just as good as any other car with halogen headlights on the road.
 

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ok, if you want to do fogs, then just get a kit with 880 bulbs and put it in. You will connect signal wires to factory fog light connectors for each side. As for headlights, it depends on what kind of HIDs you want: bi-xenon, single with hi-beam halogen, just single xenon for low beam and nothing for high beam, dual xenon, or whatever your imagination allows you. For some applications you need relay harness for others don't. But one thing i can tell you , if your lenses are foggy, there will be a very little difference if you switch from halogen. If your lense is clear, there will be a **** of a difference. Some say that HIDs in headlight housing blind oncoming traffic, but I just put headlights a little lower on one of few cars that I did work on and that helped. IF you don't want to lower your headlights, open them up and paint lower part, where reflector is, black and that would help. Or make vinyl eye lids for your headlights and that does the trick.
 

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One of my customers that I deal with, has custom 2000 honda civic and he wanted low beam white and high beam purple, so I had to order that one for him. Crazy , sometimes but interesting at the same time.
 
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I sold white HIDs to some people from out of state and they were only whiter than stock color, but much more effective. But car's like honda civic, for example have very deep housing and the bottom part of reflector sines high a lot and does blind oncoming traffic like crazy, even with headlights slightly down.
 
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Stock housings will scatter HID light resulting in the blinding of oncoming traffic and making your lights illegal in many states.

This. And it's been beaten like 11ty dead horses deep now.

HIDs serve no purpose for the SHO stock headlight housings.
 

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