My wife has a '96 4 door EX 4 cyl and her headlights suck at illuminating the road!

I have a '98 Prelude Type SH with fogs and it's like night and day difference. Even with my fogs off, I still can see farther down the road and it's brighter! It seems that her beam pattern is more down and to the right.

I just got done (like 30 min ago!) replacing her stock bulbs with Sylvania Silverstars. A tech at the Honda dealership suggested this when I said I wanted to get her a foglight kit. I will probably get the foglight kit anyway, but I still don't like her headlights!

After doing a search, I noticed that other people have complained about the same thing. I have taken her car to the dealership and had them adjust the headlights and (to me) they still look like they are pointing to far down and a little to the right!

I don't mind the "to the right", but I want to adjust them up but I am afraid they will blind people if I do.

If anyone has experience with this I would appreciate a reply! Thanks.

 

Yeah they kinda suck. USDM headlights normally point to the right so it wont blind oncoming drivers on the other side of the road. JDM headlights point to the left. Best you can do is have them adjusted and get a good set of fogs. HID headlights would also improve lighting but theyre illegal to sell now.

 

9006 vs h4, what'd you expect? try those depos, they use h4 bulbs.

edit... i just did a 9005 conversion. i'm content, but later gonna get some depos.

 

you can do minor tuning with the adjustement screws.. and everyone on your own.

 

well you can always adjust em yourself to your own preference, just make sure they dont end up in someones face on the road,

for my 5th gen all you need is a long phillips and turn the ***** slowly...
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dont everrr get those halo projections unless you do a bixenon swap, other wise youll get worse lighting than ever before...

 

yeah on my black 96 accord ex 2dr the headlights where not as good as on my 98 pearl diamond white prelude Type SH BTW its pearl diamond white not diamond white pearl.

 

HID is illegal to sell? why?

 

NAFSA or whoever rules..

cause aftermarket lighting is illgeal..

if you do a search, i had a big thread in the GD&D forum, bout the letter and info i got from the Fl, highway patrol....

you can do the reasearch yourself, but they are listed as ..

HID'S #1 complainted bout car related item in history..

its not the lights but the dumb ***** who cant install and adjust them correctly!!


i hate sitting there and SUV's and all those "fancy" cars blinding me... with stock hids

 

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Actually, it's White Diamond Pearl just like it says in my signature!

 

I am just going to add the fogs if I can still get them.

I'll just leave the headlight adjustments alone.

The Sylvania Siverstars are an improvement! I'll probably replace her high beam bulbs with these when they burn out.

 

try OEM foglights , not much people keep those guys for some reason, looks good and matches the car, i like em!

 

Yeah, that's what I meant about if I could still get them. I was talking about the Honda fogs for her Accord.

 

 

i second that the headlights suck...just make sure you never lower the car because they get even worse when you do (yes i guess it is possible to get worse)

 

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i raised mine a bit when i lowerd my car. hope it helps

 

can sumone take pics of the adjustment screws please? my lighting is pretty decent, but i'd also like to be able to adjust them to a better angle.

 

on the usdm ones if i recall correctly they're on top of the headlight, it's a long bolt that adjusts the entire assembly up and down.

as for the original poster, the sir-knockoffs with the h4 conversion work fairly well and the adjustability of the beam pattern is alot more precise. the lighting isn't spectacular by any means but it's a step up from the 9006's, with a good bulb they'll suffice.

 

umm the screw for up and down is near the upper right hand corner for the drivers side....its a phillips screw... and for side to side if im right its near the highbeam socket, u need a long phillips to reach in there and just slowly turn the sucker... the adjustment is not very precise so u gotta work on it slowly...

 

foglights help tremendousley, but fifth gen headlights suck as well, we get no options and replacements are expensive. I am looking at a lude with the andok retrofit. Im prolly gonna buy, if not the jun 92/

 

Stock headlights sucks....that's why i got the JDM ones....H4 bulbs..no not the depo ones the genuine stanley ones

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KTeller8 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">NAFSA or whoever rules..

cause aftermarket lighting is illgeal..

if you do a search, i had a big thread in the GD&D forum, bout the letter and info i got from the Fl, highway patrol....

you can do the reasearch yourself, but they are listed as ..

HID'S #1 complainted bout car related item in history..

its not the lights but the dumb ***** who cant install and adjust them correctly!!


i hate sitting there and SUV's and all those "fancy" cars blinding me... with stock hids</TD></TR></TABLE>
yeah there sure is a lot going on about it. i wrote a paper on it for my english comp class and my professor was very impressed and passed me early cause it was such a strong argument.

 

where can I get the h4 bulbs?
Do I have to do any mods to fit or do they pop right in?

 

you can buy h4 bulbs almost in any car parts or accessorie stores, if im not wrong you might have to change the plugs to h4 plugs cause they use the 3 flat metal plugs i think... | -- | something like that but the middle ones on top... if you do attempt it make sure it fits and wont melt anything.. i never done it before, but thats how im guessing u would do it....

 

H4 bulbs won't work on the stock headlights