I remember Pat/Operatic floating the idea of a retrofit program a year ago. The main concept was to get a set of projectors made, ship those out, and then get a good core from the customer back in and refund the core charge. Then repeat with the retrofit and keep going. After a lot of poking and prodding and getting a lot of no-answers in regards to outsourcing the work, we find ourselves just doing it in-house.

So the question stands, if we start this up, is anyone still game? We're going to stick with the PnP projector kits out of simplicity if we go with this, especially when it comes to handling the bi-xenon half of the projectors.

The primary idea behind this is to reduce the downtime of not having a set of headlights and clearly, giving a better HID output in non-HID cars. Because frankly, we understand that a lot of people are scared to crack open their own headlights for fear of breaking them and then being completely out until they can get new ones.

A few pictures in a Chevy Cobalt:


Low Beams:


High Beams:


So, what do ya think? Start up a core program or have people send their headlights in first?

 

what kind of numbers are we looking at?
Im looking into doing a retrofit on my 2006 jetta to see if it would be cheaper than buying a set of GLI/GTI headlights..

 

I'm honestly thinking somewhere around $60 on labor unless it's an extremely pain in the rear headlight *cough*Saturn Ion*cough*. Everything else is just parts. Right now I'm playing with these Cobalts, waiting on a Scion TC headlight to come through and a couple shrouds to work with. At least something to clean up the appearances.