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Old 11-05-10, 09:46 AM
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Did anyone ever make a set of clear lenses or aftermarket headlamps for the 92-95 ES300?

I'm looking for a set that basically doesn't have the lines on them or the ridges at the bottom.

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Old 11-05-10, 12:28 PM
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You'll have to take apart the housing and wetsand them down (or buy a set of 92-94 headlamps...they have no lines.
Personally, I like the lines and wouldn't change a thing...
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Tuan, thanks for the input. I actually had the same exact car as you with those same headlamps.

They look great but are horrible in regard to what your light output looks like to on coming traffic once you add HID lighting to them.

Those lines and ridges actually serve as a light amplifier. Although its great to have halogen light amplified in it's native headlamp application...Sadly,the same light amplification actually causes horrible amounts of glare with additional amounts of light.

I ended up sanding down my lenses & later on doing a homemade lense swap when I had that car for my E46 retrofit. I was trying to see if I can avoid swapping the lense this time around and actually picking up an aftermarket set of lamps to work on...

I found a set here

http://www.topgearautosport.com/part...eadlights.html

but these feature the same ridges as stock and I also want to avoid having to wetsand them at all costs.

Time is not as readily available to me these days as it used to be when I first started doing this stuff....In fact I barely have enough any of it as is...

Anything to help make life easer for me is king!!!
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Most of the glare comes from the smoked lens, wrong bulb size, and reflection from the smoked-chrome housing. The lines don't cause much glare at all. Car is sold..i ended up doing a rx330 retrofit on my acura RSX


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Tuan, thanks for the input. I actually had the same exact car as you with those same headlamps.

They look great but are horrible in regard to what your light output looks like to on coming traffic once you add HID lighting to them.

Those lines and ridges actually serve as a light amplifier. Although its great to have halogen light amplified in it's native headlamp application...Sadly,the same light amplification actually causes horrible amounts of glare with additional amounts of light.

I ended up sanding down my lenses & later on doing a homemade lense swap when I had that car for my E46 retrofit. I was trying to see if I can avoid swapping the lense this time around and actually picking up an aftermarket set of lamps to work on...

I found a set here

http://www.topgearautosport.com/part...eadlights.html

but these feature the same ridges as stock and I also want to avoid having to wetsand them at all costs.

Time is not as readily available to me these days as it used to be when I first started doing this stuff....In fact I barely have enough any of it as is...

Anything to help make life easer for me is king!!!
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