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Originally Posted by atoltoetox
Also, i would gladly take any opinions regarding how you think a Pewter Altima would look with these black headlights.
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My company car, a Laser Blue '03 Protege5, has the blacked-out headlights (I'm told they only came that way stock in Canada in 2003) and personally I prefer them to the chromed ones. Mind you, styling is a subjective thing at the best of times... but that's my .02 cents anyway.
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Originally Posted by atoltoetox
So if i change the headlights and keep the bulbs, i will still have Xenon lights, just a different headlight design.
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I know a lot of people have already said what's below, but I thought it might be useful to other readers to explain what's involved more clearly.
If you've got those blue-ish coloured "HID" halogen bulbs, they should fit no problem. However, this assumes the new headlight housings still use H1 and 9005 bulb sockets (low- and high-beams, respectively) like the factory housings.
If you've got an aftermarket HID kit which uses re-based HID bulbs (from HID-type to H1 halogen type -- aftermarkets don't usually have bi-xenon), that should work with the new housings as well. As with the above, this also assumes the new housings use H1-style bulbs.
However, if you're got the factory HID option (which I must note isn't available at
ANY price up here in
CANADA) then the new housings, assuming again they are designed for halogen H1 and 9005 bulbs, will
NOT work.
However, in this case you could theoretically try using said new housings and simply buy rebased HID bulbs and convert the factory HID-type connector to H1-type. I've never done this, but it should work in theory...