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BI-LED Retrofit

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Main Forum' started by d.joulez, Aug 7, 2024 at 7:40 PM.

  1. d.joulez

    d.joulez Junior Member

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    looking to sell my 2nd pair.

    I didn't have a 2nd car. so when I got the retrofit done, I purchased new pair of headlights and performed the retrofit to those.

    Once they finished, i swapped out the headlights and then added BI-LED to the original headlights
    so now I have 2.

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    So what's happened here You've added a real metal housing LED to the fake projector that comes in that original headlamp? Pretty good setup I imagine you shouldn't have any trouble selling those directly We had too much trouble keeping the car on the road let alone worrying about headlights so but they should go pretty quick I mean I've seen other people do mini metal projectors. And a whole bunch of applications pretty good stuff
     
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    yeah

    took out the original halogen projector
     
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    The original halogen low beam in a gen 3 is a real projector, not a fake one. The high beam is a reflector.
     
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    I mean he's installed a real projector over in that hole meaning one of those serious metal and to cut off that flaps up and down and all that sort of thing kind of like the generation 2 HIDs but a projector version of that they're pretty costly about 80 bucks a pop for nice ones used to be about 200. Real projectors usually aren't all plastic or poly whatever I think at least we're on that anyway that's what everybody's messing with.
     
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    Where are you in the Bay Area? I am interested as my stock headlights aren't keeping up with the likes of newer cars on the road. Is this a directly plug-and-play swap or do I need to mess with the stock wiring? Or can you share the thread/process you used for the swap?

    I was probably going to do the same thing and buy a second pair of headlights to retrofit and swap but haven't started researching yet. Or waiting to get lucky and find something at the Pick-N-Pull junkyard.