LED rear turnsignal mod (note: not the same as k5optimastore mod)
bottom connections:
Top connection:
Quad LED reverse lights
i have the regular LED T-10 reverse lights, along with V-3 Triton 1156 reverse bulbs. Very bright, can nicely see everything light up nice when reversing, note these pictures where taken while i had 60% tint on my tail lights, i have since taken off that tint
Looks great!!! Did you separate your headlights yourself? If so have you done it before? If not, how hard would you say it was? Sorry for all the questions.
Looks great!!! Did you separate your headlights yourself? If so have you done it before? If not, how hard would you say it was? Sorry for all the questions.
Yes i opened it myself. have zero experience doing it before.
It was fiarly hard as i cant fit the headlight into my oven so i had to buy a electric heat-gun from lowes
Takes quite a long time going around the unit trying to heat up the glue and prying, and since this was a test unit it got scratched up quite a bit as i wasnt taking care of it.
I was also rushing as i was excited so i think it would have been easier if i took more time heating up the glue.
Took me a couple hours a 3rd degree burn and a couple blisters before getting it open
Idk about a DIY. Most people are reluctant to open their headlights
I will take more photos of the steps I go through when I do the passenger side.
At the moment I don't have the angel eye or the second projector running till I can get the other side done . I got it wired up so all 4 projectors come on together. And the high beam signal activates the bi-xenon solenoid
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But it would be a good reference for those who may and wanted that information. I would actually like to do this but only if I can find a spare headlight set. I just don't have time to take my headlights off and do a project that would take some time to complete. I do like the halo thing though.
I was originally planning to take off both stock headlights and get the project done in a weekend. But then i looked on Ebay and was able to find a used drivers side unit for cheap. the housing was cracked on the unit , but still served its purpose.
i used that ebay unit to practice opening the headlights and used it to figure out how i was going to mount the projectors, i took my time with it, and after getting all the cutting done till i was satisfied, i took my stock headlights and basically swapped some internals, so it only took a nights work.
now that i know what i had to do with the drivers side. when i open up my passenger side i can get straight to work on cutting, and that should only take me a day
If you want to try doing some headlight mods. Instead of buying a new set of lights to work on, then swap them, it would be cheaper just to get a used ,somewhat broken unit to test on so you can do your stock lights with ease.
Hopefully i can get to my passenger side units this weekend, i will be sure to take a lot of pictures and get a DIY going
Also if you plan on getting halo rings i would recommend buying a pair or 2 this friday from the retrofit source. Hopefully they should be having a black friday sale. the rings are normally $58 a pair i think, and you will need 80MM rings. But beware that white rings will be yellow in color when off, but white when on. So it will be viably yellow when off. Or you could get the amber rings which are white when off, and amber looks pretty cool also
cool, well those sonata are 30mm so a little longer than ypu tried and hopefully thats the sweet spot. And considering how many technical components are shared from Sonata to Optima, i'd bank on your lens measuring at 3" diameter with a 30mm focal length. TRS ftw.
1 thing I was thinking is TRS has those lenses listed for sonata halogen houseings . not sure if focal length would be the same for halogen and HID. I don't think it was 30mm when I looked
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Just left the 808 2 years ago, spent almost 6 years there between schofield, and JBPH-H. It's nice to see it again in some of your pics. Very familiar looking locales lol. Nice ride keep up the good work
G4Z808, your experimental lighting under the grill looks amazing.
(Sorry, I don't "know the lingo" for what part that is--not a mod person for the most part, though this forum has me rethinking some things.) View attachment 18077
Dude G those are seriously bright low beams lol. If i was driving the other way, I'd probably be annoyed enough to shoot your headlights out lol. I don't ever wanna be "That Guy." with the spot lights. What K are those?
Lol the point of projectors Jasper, is that the light is aimed at the road, and not at peoples faces, my D1S bulbs are 5000K Osram D1S bulbs and my H1 bulbs are 6000K XB35 bulbs, im waiting for the next gen of XB35 H1 bulbs to come out to get a matching 5000K pair
those black shadows on the road ? hmm strange im going to check mine for those tonight, did you clean the capsules before putting the bulbs in ? with alchohol wipes ?
Yeah those black shadows are what I'm talking about. I did not clean the bulbs as I installed them right after I got them. By the way, I deleted my post on this thread as I don't wanna hi-jack your showroom. Pics are attached at your retrofit thread now. Sorry!