burtoncr

Are the sport headlights installed here? Just trying to see how "dark" the chrome is compared to stock.

BradTank

That's good to know there are aftermarket brands.

I will say though I had really good luck using the headlight restoration system from Sylvania, so far no yellowing, I've used them on both of our Lexus. Took about 20 minutes and cost around $20.

DJHGX470

Yes, those are the sport edition headlights. They are the Depo version.

reddirt

I'm curious what the difference is between sport lenses and standard ones is. Mine are looking dingy and I want to stay Halogen.

I think I see that these are smoked, doesn't that decrease light output ?

OG Dada

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Sport Package headlights have black chrome reflectors instead of the regular green tinted chrome.

The reflector doesn't affect the light output since the headlights are projector type. I always recommend for people to swap or use HID's instead of halogen. Halogen bulbs are 55 watt bulbs, and heat up tremendously inside the headlights, which causes it to produce soot and dull and lessen the visibility in time, besides it dying slowly from the burning of the filament when it is lit.

HID's on the other hand, uses only 35 watts (Which make me wonder why people buy 55 watt ballasts when they only gain about 30% more brightness but lessen the lifespan of the bulbs by 50%, and it is one of the benefits of switching to HID's. Which only says one thing; people don't know what they're getting in to.) The science behind it is, it uses xenon gas, a type of gas that when a large amount of electricity passes through it, it produces light; hence it being called xenon bulbs at times, and why it comes with a ballast. You can buy HID's for cheap nowadays because of high abundance due to high demand. I have DDM Tuning HID's on mine and been using DDM Tuning for roughly 5 years and have never even had a reason to use their lifetime warranty that comes with their products.

I was able to snap some pics of when I restored my headlights; here you can see the build up of soot, on the inside of the lenses due to the heat that the halogen produces.

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Only way to take it off without scratching and further damaging the lens was to use some kind of solvent, but you don't want to use a very strong one so I used my wife's nail polish remover. LOL

Untitled by damoneydada, on Flickr

All jokes aside, you can now clearly see the soot coming off, and revealing a perfectly clean plastic lens.

Untitled by damoneydada, on Flickr

I have another set of custom painted fully restored headlight pair for sale in the classifieds by the way if anyone is in a market for one.