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Old Mar 2, 2010 | 10:09 PM
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Hey guys I'm in the market for some headlight retros mostly the LS460/LS430. I've posted in the classified already but is there a website that sells them? I've tried searching but all i've found so far are DIY threads and I can't afford to not be driving my car to/from work. Thanks in advance
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Old Mar 2, 2010 | 10:23 PM
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Old Mar 2, 2010 | 10:23 PM
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Not looking hard enough, my friend.

LS430 Retros $600
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Old Mar 2, 2010 | 10:30 PM
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luxurymods.com
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Not looking hard enough, my friend.

LS430 Retros $600
Yea I saw that but that thread was created like a year ago I did pm the guy but I doubt he still has it so I'm continuing my search
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Old Mar 2, 2010 | 11:05 PM
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OP just so u know luxury mods is a MEMBER and vendor on here. tony is a super nice guy and they do great work as per all their feedback and pics from here

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/members/37717-a.html
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Old Mar 2, 2010 | 11:11 PM
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If you go to Luxurymods just make sure you deal with Chrispy. I have been dealing with emoshun and he has not been a pleasure to deal with at all.
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Do they do retros or sell a whole headlight unit. I saw your webpage and they sell brackets?
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They perform the retrofit on your existing headlights I believe. You send them yours, do the procedure, and then send them back to you.
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Originally Posted by Baliztik
If you go to Luxurymods just make sure you deal with Chrispy. I have been dealing with emoshun and he has not been a pleasure to deal with at all.
why what happen?
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Originally Posted by kevin.tran
Do they do retros or sell a whole headlight unit. I saw your webpage and they sell brackets?
Originally Posted by shvc1991
They perform the retrofit on your existing headlights I believe. You send them yours, do the procedure, and then send them back to you.
they do both actually. tony sold a set on here awhile ago. was a beautiful set too...from what i seen they do great work
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Originally Posted by vwynn
why what happen?
To make a long and horrible story short. I bought a retrofit. I brought it to emoshun and he was going to salvage what parts he could and put them in my headlights. When I picked up the final product, the headlights he was trying to sell me were not in the condition he said they were, and he took about a month longer than he said he would. So I have since asked him to redo the retro with my stock HID lamps. He recommended E46 bixenons if I wanted quad retro, and even sold me a pair, but later said they would have trouble fitting, and he didn't know which projector would fit, and I could not return them. So right now I am stuck with a pair of headlights that he technically owns, and he has my stock headlights that he said he has retrod the inners into, and chrispy has my Q45 mounted into brackets ready to be installed and I cannot reach him, at all. It's been a solid two and a half months without a single e-mail or answered phone call from the guy. And this isn't recent. We started business in July, and since then he has tried to change his pricing, which I called him out on using his original e-mail, (he might have sold me used HID bulbs instead of new ones), and constant back and forth arguing about pricing, and LYING about when he'd be done with things. During our business I had to repeatedly ask for pictures, and when I asked him if had say... painted the housings, he said he had that done, but a week later he wouldn't remember what he lied to me about and let the truth slip. You do the math. Also on my new retro he went to chrispy to do the Q45 retro... so he's not even doing half of the retro. He said he would refinish my lenses and was charging me for it, and later told me he was going to use an external source so it was "flawless"... so he's not even refinishing my lenses.

All in all emoshun has been a pain in the *** to work with. Guy just doesn't have good business practices, poor customer service (changing prices, nickel and diming, lying about progress, horrible communication, lying about quality of products he's selling me, and not answering any phone calls I or his business partner chrispy give him).

I have been in contact with chrispy and he is a stand up guy. He gives me hope that in the end I will receive what I want. I regret going to emoshun with my retrofit. Either do it yourself or make sure you get chrispy. JNC is amazing I hear, just ask around and do it right. I'll make a thread about this later. I in no way hold Luxurymods responsible for this because I dealt with emoshun the whole time. chrispy has been a pleasure. All my angst comes form business with Jimmy. He better have my lights done right when this is all over. I have every e-mail and text message we shared, and that's all the proof I'll ever need to show you guys how doing business with this guy is.

Edit: In addition when I went to pick up my failed retrofit, he said it would be a smooth transaction. He ended up looking up the guide on CL to DIY remove your front bumper, and it took 4 hours for him to do the process with my help. I also had to drive an hour to his house. I missed several appointments I had planned because of the two times I had to go out there.

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^^ Wow. Sorry to hear about your misfortune with emoshun. Hope you get what you want.

CHRISPY FOR PRESIDENT!! HE AND HIS ROYAL CHARIOT OF AWESOMENESS!!

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Sounds like that **** need to get slapped...given when I inquired about this mod the price was pretty much a cool $1000 to get the good stuff done...People play too much sometimes
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