restoring pete 389 headlights

Seems alot of guys asking about the crap headlights and how to fix them. most say buy new because you can't clean the inside..... well I didn't feel like spending a grand quite yet so instead I spent $30 and a few hours and got mine looking a million times better. keep in mind that on mine I could have gotten them perfect but I rushed as I made the mistake of having my wife with me who very quickly became bored and annoying.

I have a sander and buffer but this can be done by hand, some parts need to be.

when you take apart the headlights, the lense is easy to take off with a flat head screwdriver and a utility knife to cut the goop holding it on. from there I sanded both sides with 320 grit, 500, 800, 1000 wet dry and the a 1500 wet sand. I then polished it with maguires headlight restore. I used a black gasket seal to put the lense back on.

the problem with these seems to be the big hole on the inside of the hood where the wires run through, it isn't closed to the elements so I bought a can of spray foam and filled it up.

popped in a retrofitsource.com 50w morimoto hid kit in low beam and a putco led high beam... #### can I see!!!!

just thought I would pass this info on. instead of a grand I spent next to nothing but a little time.

 

www.deepspacelighting.com

he makes a plug and play hid replacement. takes out the projector and puts in a bixenon one so it acts as a high and low beam via a shutter. it also keeps the factory high beam working so you can have a halogen or led bulb in it.

the bixenon hid and a putco led high beam bulb and you'll never see better. that's what I have in my volvo but the pete kit offers a better projector.

otherwise out of all the hid kits I found and tried www.theretrofitsource.com morimoto is hands down the absolute best plug and play kit out there. get the harness with it and 4 resistors (incase you need them to draw more amps)

3 year warranty on 50 watt kit and 5 on 35 watt I think. I had to use it on a bulb and boy was it easy.

my low beams do stay on when I'm on high beam. yours don't?

at first I mounted the ballasts on the inside of the hood and just fed the wires through but after opening the headlight assembly up I found a perfect spot inside the assembly. you'll see it the second you remove the front bezel.

 

if your low beams turn off when you switch to high beam you can buy a splitter harness from retrofit source to make the stay on. there is a h11a and h11b lit depending if your projector shutter is on the top or bottom of the projector. call them to verify as they know. I can't remember the one I bought.

I run led high beams as hid take too long to fire up.

 

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/hid-systems/morimoto-elite-hid-system-h11.html#.VbVBxkkanqA

I checked my order history. h11a