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Originally Posted by Xtremluck
If you’re looking for the easiest option the Gen 2 Morimoto XB headlights would be the best. It has decent output, looks OEM and the newer ones seem to be a bit more reliable. The OEM LED headlights were a big disappointment and Alpharex is white labeled Alibaba products.
Having said that if you want the best output the MLED 2.0 retrofit is the one to do. It’s not terribly hard and the retroquick brackets make it essentially plug and play once you get the headlights open. My advice to you is to cut the assemblies open vs trying to mess with the permaseal.
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This is good info. Thank you. The M LED 2.0 has been the direction I've been leaning and it's good to know the retrofit is pretty straight forward. I saw somewhere that they project an "M" on the ground in front of the vehicle. Is that true? I can't remember where it was but the site listed the "feature" like it was something desirable. I hope this in not the case.
I've questioned what to do with the high beam despite the M LED 2.0 having beam limiters that move for the high beams. I'm considering going with a set of Profile Hi-Lens 2.0 LEDs. I've seen a few examples of this in my searching. This would allow me to black out the whole headlight assembly and I think it would look nice.
What do you mean "cut open" the assemblies? Got any pics of where to cut them? Honestly, I've never had any issues with baking lights open. About 7 min in the oven at 250* F and they almost come open by hand without the use of a tool.
I assume you used the OEM housings when you did your retrofit. I'm entertaining getting a cheap set of OEM style housings found on eBay or Amazon to do mine. I've done this with a couple of other sets of lights that didn't originally have projectors in them. This allows for retaining the OEM housings intact as a spare set and provides new base parts for the retrofit. I'm just a bit concerned that the projector mounting in those housings from the likes of DT Moto and OEMassive are a little different making the retro-quik kit difficult.