This site has been great and thanks to all who participate. I've been doing minor upgrades to my new to me '97 Cruiser, love the darn thing, only drive the Mercedes for work stuff now. Totally lucked out after only searching for three or four months and found a 113k one owner all records dealer maintained (good and bad weirdly) never offroad California no rust one. I'm looking to upgrade the headlights as low beam is pretty feeble as others have commented. Is there a quick fix without rewiring it as has been mentioned on the site? Is there just a quick bulb replacement available? This is mostly for road use, my offroading is limited to daytime on the beach where BTW my new Geolanders are awesome, great all around tire.
Headlight upgrade?
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The Low beam bulb is AMAZINGLY better. You need to trim the tabs a slight bit, but well worth it. The high beam I have NOT seen yet, but a friend now has them in hand to try. (Free shipping to USA, use code "USA")
The Low beam bulb is AMAZINGLY better. You need to trim the tabs a slight bit, but well worth it. The high beam I have NOT seen yet, but a friend now has them in hand to try. (Free shipping to USA, use code "USA")
+ 1 for HIR!
And Slee has an upgraded lighting harness that is pretty simple to install. If you can change a flat tire you can install the harness: its a one banana degree of difficulty to install. The harness is fed direct off battery and has slightly thicker gauge wire, combined gives you approximately 20% mo' brightness. I run on both my 80s.
And Slee has an upgraded lighting harness that is pretty simple to install. If you can change a flat tire you can install the harness: its a one banana degree of difficulty to install. The harness is fed direct off battery and has slightly thicker gauge wire, combined gives you approximately 20% mo' brightness. I run on both my 80s.
Great success with these...
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/led-headlight-install-2000lm-each-no-external-driver.821531/
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/led-headlight-install-2000lm-each-no-external-driver.821531/
I have the phillips 9011's in both the low and high beams. A huge difference between them and the stock type bulbs, particularly with the high beam bulb in the low beam lens (my rig is trail only, but I've never been flashed when on the road) .
Oh, there's on average less than one volt difference between the slee and factory harness at the bulb. The factory light harness runs directly off the battery through a relay. Save your cash for something else.
Not in 'Merica.
You have an 80, so you probably know this. In other countries they were sometimes used, but that requires the brackets, so not drop-in, no. Corner lights and grill would also be different, at least.
Yikes. So this is why almost everyone talks about changing bulbs etc, rather than the whole headlight enclosure?
Yes in the US the headlamp assembly use replacement bulbs. The headlamp enclosure is dc'd in the US, and were around $400-500 new. So protect them.
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Wagner 9011's from RockAuto in both hi and lo beams, they are repackaged Phillips bulbs for half the $. I pulled the rubber ring off my old bulbs and added it to the 9011's for a better seal in the housing since the diameter of the 9011's a slightly smaller. I still need to disassemble the housings and adjust them manually since the adjustment screws don't work on one hi beam and the opposite low beam. Saw a thread on this somewhere
That is an aftermarket housing. Still a sealed housing just has those "projectors" inside.