Diy retrofit with oem or aftermarket lights

Buckeyedavey2323 · Aug 27, 2017

Wondering if you guys are retrofitting stock lights or aftermarket ones which is the best kind to do I don't want tondo projectors I just want switchbacks and led as I am not a fan of hid or projectors but I like the demon eyes

RusslRam · Aug 27, 2017

I'm was in the same boat. I just ordered some eBay lights and put those on the truck while I started taking apart the OEM pair. The OEM seemed to fit in the housing better IMO.

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Any pics of the what kind of lights ur making.

adurm · Aug 27, 2017

Not sure how to do demon eyes without projectors. If you are retrofitting them, you are putting projectors into either reflector housings or replacing inferior projectors. Baking them and opening them up without putting in quality projectors would be a waste of time and effort imo. They might look trendy on the outside but still give garbage output.

I say open the oem. Put an h1 projector in there. Do your led stuff and get the best of both worlds.

blackbetty14 · Aug 27, 2017

Aftermarkets will open a lot easier than the OEM stuff. I vote aftermarket just for the ease. I would still do cheap projectors as you will have 10x better light output even in the stock housing and it's 90% done already as you have it open.

Rzrman328 · Aug 27, 2017

Yep, no way I would do this again without throwin in some projectors.

Too much of a pain....just my opinion.

OnSale · Aug 30, 2017

If your going with the TYC OEM Projectors, the led boards are mounted differently then the OEM version and any of the clear/smoked DRL lenses and clear/smoked clear corners will need to be customized to get them to fit.

I just built myself a custom set of TYC OEM projectors and I had to customize alot of **** because it was slightly different then how the OEM projectors were designed inside.

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DRkNESS · Aug 31, 2017

I love the fact that Pennsylvania doesn't require front tags, gives the front of trucks a much cleaner look.

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Rzrman328 · Aug 31, 2017

DRkNESS said:
I love the fact that Pennsylvania doesn't require front tags, gives the front of trucks a much cleaner look.

Father Of Four

Az the same way....I was worried coming to TN but they have no front plate either....yeaaaaa buddy.

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