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Old 08-03-2007, 12:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
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"JDM" Gen 5 projectors?

Im sort of skeptical about these "JDM" lights but does anyone have an experience with these.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/02-03...spagenameZWDVW
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Dont even waste your money on that junk.
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ha ya dont waste ur money i got them. they pull off the look i want but the beam pattern sucks ass.
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save your money for a retrofit...
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save your money.....id never trust ebay product's quality
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You need to search, man. This has been covered many times. They're garbage.
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Yea ive ready ebay prjectors sucks but these are supposedly JDM. You think I can fit TSX projectors in them. The thing is I like how they look...
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Yea ive ready ebay prjectors sucks but these are supposedly JDM. You think I can fit TSX projectors in them. The thing is I like how they look...
I can put anything I want on ebay and call it JDM... that doesn't make it so. Its not JDM because the Japanese Domestic Market wouldn't put up with that kind of crap product.

And why would you waste your time (and money) trying to retrofit those? LE05 tried, and succeeded, but from what I understand, he's unhappy with it 'cause it looks cheap, and is going to redo it with a set of regular headlamps.
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Yea ive ready ebay prjectors sucks but these are supposedly JDM. You think I can fit TSX projectors in them. The thing is I like how they look...
you may like how they look, but you won't like how they perform...

even if you retrofit the ebay projectors with TSX's, its not going to be easy. generally, the whole thing feels cheap and made of subpar materials. i wouldn't be surprised after the retrofit is all said and done... it'll either fall apart or vibrate like mad when the engine is on.

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LE05 tried, and succeeded, but from what I understand, he's unhappy with it 'cause it looks cheap, and is going to redo it with a set of regular headlamps.
actually, i didn't even bother going through with it after i got them apart. i just got so disgusted with how cheap the materials were that i just ended up buying some Depo SE headlights and retrofitted them with e46's. i plan to retrofit another new pair of OEM SE headlights with TSX's this month. finally!
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^Ah, thanks for the correction. MAYBE when I come back from my vacation in a week, I might finally get around to finishing those damn fogs...
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Well is there a way of having that look of the projectors and just retrofitting with TSX one's. By look I mean the black housing and such
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Well is there a way of having that look of the projectors and just retrofitting with TSX one's. By look I mean the black housing and such
Haven't you looked at my sig? I retrofitted the stock headlamps with TSXs and painted my housings black.
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I wouldn't recommend these headlights. I have them and yes, they do look good, but the output sucks and the sealant sucks, with moisture getting in whenever it rains. I'm going back to stock soon and then later do a retrofit.
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^Good man.
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