I am finishing up the body and paintwork to my car, and I need new headlights because one of the brackets is cracked. Any recommendations for which headlights would work the best for HID's. I would like to get them in the future, so since I need the headlights now, I might as well get whatever it is that I will need in the future.

I have heard that for obvious reasons (Civic's don't come factory with HID), the stock headlight assemblies don't work the best. Any aftermarket or JDM that would work better. I have heard projector, but I don't care for them so much.

Thanks for your help!

-Shane

 

Projector housings with OEM HID projectors retrofitted into them would be the best option.

 

So, I wouldn't actually have the projector "look" if I retro them in that way? I have read many posts on "aftermarket HID's vs. retro," but not too many on which housings work the best. Thanks for the response.

-Shane

 

You'll still get the projector look with retros.

 

Not what I wanted to hear. Are you sure about that? Oh well. Maybe if I paint the housings black it won't look so bad? The body work on my car is subtle, so I want to keep everything else the same way as well.

Thanks for your help so far. Now I just need to figure out which HID's to get. Maybe I can find something out of a wrecked Beemer or something.

-Shane

 

some of the sponsers have some good deals

 

For HID's or headlight housings?

-Shane

 

like the guy said before.. get projectors wit retro's....get tyc one piece projectors and s2k hid's and retro them in... nice clean look.... won't be bulky round things in your headlights... will be very clean lookin...good upgrade and not ricey at all...tsx oem hid's are real nyce too...
or better yet check out hidtech.com ... pretty good deals on there and they'll retro em in for ya pretty cheap 400 or so...

 

I am trying to do everything to my car from now on, so having someone else do it is out of the question. The only reason that [i]anyone[i/] else touched my car was because I didn't have a second car. Now that I have my truck, down time is not a problem. Thanks for the advice I will definitely check that out.

-Shane