Headlights Smoking

[Tuskilla]

Well i tried to jb weld a piece of metal to cover my squirrel spotters, well NOW everytime i drive at night i notice my lights getting dimmer, then when i get out the housing is full of smoke!! I th8ink i may have givin myself a reason to do a retrofit!

[11LE]

I haven't had that problem yet, knock on wood!

What did you end up using to cover up the ss? I let my JB weld sit overnight and then some to ensure everything is well set. Sounds like something is melting. I wouldn't use your lights until you figure things out to prevent a fire.. D:

[Tuskilla]

its a piece of metal clamp used to hold the intake together on an aftermarket cai

[my.rims.are.stock]

I used a coke can. :-/

[workerant]

^ aluminum do burn. You can try it with the aluminum foil, u'll see it do burn.

I agree, U need to find the cause of that smoke.

I bent the metal inside down, I don't know how it still shows a bit but not enough to blind ppl.

[molson.david]

its a piece of metal clamp used to hold the intake together on an aftermarket cai

was it painted?
paint mite burn.

I used unpainted alluminum in my MDX projerctors to make a shield. all good.

[gdanaher]

Smoke is just a step away from flames, so exercise good judgement.

[Tuskilla]

Ok I took my lights out AGAIN to figure out the problem! Turned out to be the pieces of metal I used felloff the kb weld never welded for me! So what I did was dump out the piece of metal that was now loose in my projector and cleaned up the scraps as much as I could, I then took a scfewdri er and bent down the piece of metal above the bent down squirrel spotted so now there is no gap I turned on my heads for about 20 mundane NO SMOKE! Now I need to wait till it's dark to see how it turned out!

I also threw some silverstar ultras in my fogs and took the old fogs and put them in my heads, the old heads were shot because of the kb weld!

[11LE]

I have two sets of HID bulbs that I don't use anymore in 6000k and 8000k. LMK if you want them.

Or did you do the SS mod for halogens??

[tengiday]

Use H9 bulbs for fogs and you can get a lot of light.

[Tuskilla]

I am just keeping the ultra in the fogs hid will be down theroad for my heads I think

[Tuskilla]

H9 huh! I got the h11 ultras on ebay for 28 bucks

[tengiday]

H9 produces about 2100 lumens, while H11 produces 1300 lumens. Their prices are not much different (probably the same; you can google it). An H9 bulb, of course, will have shorter life span than an H11 bulb.

[Tuskilla]

Hmmmm could I put h9's in my heads without any modification?

[tengiday]

Originally Posted by Tuskilla

Hmmmm could I put h9's in my heads without any modification?

only little modification.









There is some glare, but a lot better than using HID.