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I finally installed my projectors today. I started this journey about 8 months back after reading all the posts on HID installations and the trouble others have been having. I was discouraged but very enlightened. It wasn't until I stumbled accross another Dodge site and noticed a guy who pretty much was in the same place as me. Wanting HIDs but not sure which way to go. After some deliberation he decided on a retro-fit. Hmm, he had my attention. I waited for him to get his lights all figured out and after seeing what he did I knew it was the way to go for me as well.

The deciding factor was the glare that one gets from his/her headlights by doing a simple HID bulb installation into a stock housing. As I was sitting at a red light one morning on the way to work I seen a truck in my rearview coming up behind me with lights so bright I was starting to get sore eyes. As he got closer I could not look anylonger. I could tell they were HIDs. Once he pulled up beside me I noticed how the pattern of light simply projected two beams dead on the pavement in front of us. But yet the glare was blinding as he pulled up. Well, with my history and luck I knew I couldn't put those in my truck without having the local law enforment pull me over before to long and listening to some assertive schmuck in a uniform explain why I was recieving a fine for my ignorance. So I sourced out two headlight housing cores and sent them in to a custom shop for retro-fits. After weighing my options I went with Infinity G35 projectors, 6000Kelvin bulbs and Gatling Gun Shrouds for esthetic enhancment.

The install went flawlessly. From start to finish it only took 2.25 hours and only had one minor issue with the kit I recieved. It was a true plug and play with all the resistors, splices and connections layed out in plain english. I just came in from outside now that it's dark and can say that the difference is truley much more than I expected. They put light right where I'd hoped;on the ground and not scattered everywhere. I would highly recommend this to anyone else in my position and feel the money was well spent at $650 American all in. I went about polishing the lenses prior to wrapping up installation since the cores I got from a wrecker were well pitted from sand and gravel in the previous owners past. It wasn't near as bad of a job as I thought. A little wet sanding with 1500 grit, a 3M polycarbonate polish disk and a Meguiers Plastic polish made quick work of the tiny bit of haze as well. I've posted some pics below.

 

Did you use Advancedlites to do the retrofit?

 

SWEET! But you gotta let us see the backs of the housings. I am very interested in how the infinity projectors were attached to the stock housings.

 

those look good. i am actually in the process of putting my retrofit kit in my truck. i will post with pics.

 

The vendor I used was Unique Coatings, the contact was Chad B. It took him a long time to get them done. He said he was really busy and just put mine in line up. The whole process took him about 2.5 to 3 months from time I shipped to recieving them back. Be prepared to wait but well worth it.

I didn't take any pictures of the rear of the housings. I can take them out and snap a quick pic if you're really that interested. The projectors do sit further inside the housing than the plain old halogen bulb does. Maybe only protruding about an inch in the rear.. It was sealed up really well with Silicone for weather resistance. I still can't beleive how much light they throw not ever having a vehicle with this sophisticated lighting before.

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heres the pic you asked for. had them out today to reseal them. Condensation is begining to enter the lenses.... Hopefully its' fixed.

 

Nice man everything looks super nice.