PROJECTOR HEADLIGHTS PICS Please....
The Mark LT is a direct fit, but I don't think there have ever been projector housings released for that truck since it's based completely off the F150. The Navigator isn't based off the Expedition entirely, so lots of things were altered. There are lots of people running aftermarket HID bulbs on their MArk LT's, but I haven't seen any with OEM projectors. And yeah, the Navigator housings would need some modding either to the housing or the body of the F150, and they still wouldn't fit or look right.
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These are what mine look like shown on my garage door, but I have the ones that don't look OEM at all, with the lowbeam projectors on the outside and the highbeam reflectors on the inside.
I've seen projectors in two different fashions. One is just a lense protruding about an inch or so in front of the socket for the headlight bulb. If I'm wrong, someone please corect me. The light may shine in front through the projector, but the majority of the light from the bulb is diffused onto the reflector, actually illuminating the road just like your factory headlight would. These are nice because they are not as blinding as a purpose-built projector, and they do not have a vertical limiter plate as seen in my image above.
The other projector has it's own housing for the convex lense. The light in this little housing is totally reflected inside and aim at the lense, giving total illumination from one point, almost like a magnifying glass. This is why the light is so bright in the very center, and gradually shines less going toward the outside. These are blinding because their main point of illumination is so small, but they produce unparallel lighting (in my opinion).
I've never seen the light output from the set that Smokey has. In fact, it would be helpful if Smokey took some images.
Seriously, why aren't we more focused on this kind of picture that actually shows performance of the projector rather than focusing on how they look on the truck? At a minimum, they are equally important.
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So did you do it?
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new lights
Just put them in, still waiting for the HID's to come from DDM, bought 4 so I got HID on HI and LO beam. In Canada and have to keep daytime running lights, so I wired the fog, halo, and LED's to key on power to serve as DRL.
These are just cheep ebay lights from K2 motors, $112.
And yea when I'm done all 10 lights facing forward will be able to be used at once, (lots of deer/elk around here) off hiway of course.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/2004-2007-FORD-F1...item45f21d3a38
These are just cheep ebay lights from K2 motors, $112.
And yea when I'm done all 10 lights facing forward will be able to be used at once, (lots of deer/elk around here) off hiway of course.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/2004-2007-FORD-F1...item45f21d3a38
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You are rite, I was only about 5" from the door so the light did'nt spread much, and those are the crappy cheepo bulbs, I'll back it up and see what it looks like.
duh, I don't have room to gace it up, Supercrew + longbox = tight squeeze! I'll wait till dark and use the outside of the door.
duh, I don't have room to gace it up, Supercrew + longbox = tight squeeze! I'll wait till dark and use the outside of the door.
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