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Old 08-29-2006, 01:11 AM
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The headlights on my stang suck period. They light nothing up maybe like 50ft infront of me. What can i do to make them brighter or light more up besides putting like 300 into a conversion kit for the fancy ones.
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Old 08-29-2006, 01:30 AM
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The headlights on my stang suck period. They light nothing up maybe like 50ft infront of me. What can i do to make them brighter or light more up besides putting like 300 into a conversion kit for the fancy ones.
I've never noticed the problem...

Are they adjustable???
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Old 08-29-2006, 01:34 AM
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I've noticed that on my 97 and many around the same year have nasty *** yellowed lenses. I tried cleaning them with a powerball and plastic and metal cleaner, but they still look like ****.

As for your problem...can you get brighter bulbs?

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Old 08-29-2006, 01:45 AM
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buy some new lightbulbs... i got the ones from luminics... they work great!
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Old 08-29-2006, 01:51 AM
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94-98 GT's don't have clear lense headlights so the light is very dull. One of the best things i did to my car was get new headlights and foglights.
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Old 08-29-2006, 03:02 AM
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ide recommend getting new headlights and foglights, preferebly smoked, but whatever ude like... then get some sylvania silverstars, i have um and they work great, light up the road alot better then stock
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Old 08-29-2006, 04:18 AM
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stock mustang headlights will turn yellow and dingy because they are made of cheap plastic. if you can't use a powerball to clean them up, then you need new headlights. or x-ray vision. whatever.
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Old 09-02-2006, 12:39 AM
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I was looking at the lumanics or however you spell it bulbs and they seemed pretty well priced so I might go with those. Anyone have them? Plus I just got blackout covers so it sucks cuz i have to take them off as soon as it gets dark its a pain in the a$$. With the covers its like driving without lights.
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I've got projector headlights and they light sh*it up 3 cars ahead of me, lol.
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Old 09-02-2006, 01:20 AM
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I was looking at the lumanics or however you spell it bulbs and they seemed pretty well priced so I might go with those. Anyone have them? Plus I just got blackout covers so it sucks cuz i have to take them off as soon as it gets dark its a pain in the a$$. With the covers its like driving without lights.
Welcome to my dellema (sp?) with those covers... Even with the brights on, it was very difficult to see out of. But once I saw JonB. with his smoked headlights, I definitely went out and got those because I didn't care for clear ones that much.
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