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Absolutely agree! That would be my first choice personally as well. However sounded like he didn't want to spend a lot. I think a morimoto kit is around $200 if I remember correctly.
Some people have had great luck with the Innovited kit. I was not one of them. Mine were a very dingy yellowish greenish in output and almost no usable light. That was the 35w 5000k Innovited kit. I will say though, my experience with them is not the norm by comparison to everyone else. Everybody else seems to have great results with the kit, just sharing my personal experience with it.
I ran them for 1 day in my Alpharex gen 1 (stock H7 projectors that came in them). Went back to TYC projectors and the alpharex are sitting in my garage while I decide what to do with them.
Do you have any pictures or can you offer any tips on the bracket you made? I’m not interested in changing anything at all except the low beam projectors. Don’t need new high beams, don’t need fancy LEDs for the turn signals or drl, not smoking anything, I just want better projectors for the low beam. I’ve never opened a set of headlights, but I’m quite crafty and very much mechanically inclined.
Wow, that’s a lot of mess to get it to work. Is that white bracket something you 3D printed?Yes I do. The hardest part was the low beam projector. Getting it mounted level both Horizontally and Vertically since there is not the usual bulb hole or any sort of spot to mount the projector. The AlphaRex use a 4 “post” mounting design, but the D2S does not come close to mounting to it. I have no idea if the H1 8.0 or any other projector might have the bolt holes lineup better.
Here are some pics:
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Gotcha. I might try to mess with them. I’m pretty happy with my TYC projectors, but I like the look of the alpharex. If their H7 projectors weren’t wonky, they’d be great. They’re rotated 45 degrees (the groove for the tab on the bulbs sits about 1:30-2:00 looking at the back of it). When you put HOD in them, the return wire is not at 6:00 and it throws off the hotspot. I tried modifying the bulb base and shimming it to fix it, but could never get it right so I just went back to the TYC.
The part colored black in the picture is the groove where the tab sits. The screw is at 12:00 (where the tab is sitting). To get the bulb to seat properly, I had to rotate it to get the tab into the groove, and the hotspot was jacked. I tried cutting a new tab in it so it would sit in the groove and fully seat, but no matter what I did with shins and manipulating the metal base, I could not get the hotspots right.
Just found your post about these bulbs... How did you manage to install the bulbs and then reinstall the dust covers on the back of the bulb housing? If you left the housing off, have you had any problems with moisture build-up inside the headlight housing?
I have the MS+ and the AlphaOBD app... are you saying that I can buy the HID kits and use the bulbs without using the ballasts?
