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YOUR RESEARCHRennline LED Headlight Conversion
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Well I went and made my own using most of the stock parts so there was no problem with fitting as they already fitted the car.
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As my car is hotrodded a touch I chose the Stedi Carbon Black units, painted the housings black and fitted early clear lenses.
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Result extremely good, lights align and dip correctly so no blinding other motorists, tested with H4 lenses and is very good then switched to the early clear for the look, slightly crisper beam but some may even prefer the spread of light with the H4 lenses, great either way.
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Insanely easy in the end, I made an adapter to fit 7" LED units into the stock housing so they fit an adjust exactly the same as stock.
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Probably a bit late to this, but if you want custom headlights that you can choose and design with the standard housings a company in Vic do that.
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I went to the local car repair shop and found that I needed to replace the whole headlight part because my old ones aren't compatible with the LED light bulbs.
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I went to the local car repair shop and found that I needed to replace the whole headlight part because my old ones aren't compatible with the LED light bulbs.
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Result extremely good, lights align and dip correctly so no blinding other motorists, tested with H4 lenses and is very good then switched to the early clear for the look, slightly crisper beam but some may even prefer the spread of light with the H4 lenses, great either way.
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Hi PFA,
I have a 1977 3.0 Carrera and have decided to change the Headlights for the Rennline LEDs. Has anyone else done this? What appears to be a very straight forward 10 minute job has stretched into a couple of days as components don't quite line up. Firstly the lights themselves into the Buckets and then the lenses once wrapped with the supplied gasket don't seem to sit correctly into the light thereby making it impossible for the final ring to be attached. Any hints would be greatly accepted.
Thanks for sharing! It helped a little bit. I wanted to replace the halogen headlights on my car and make a conversion to LED headlights on my car. I bought the LED light bulbs from
https://www.vont.com/product/smart-strip-lights-led-strip-lights/
and installed them in my car. I have noticed something is wrong, because the headlight wasn't bright enough. I went to the local car repair shop and found that I needed to replace the whole headlight part because my old ones aren't compatible with the LED light bulbs.
Probably a bit late to this, but if you want custom headlights that you can choose and design with the standard housings a company in Vic do that. You can choose projectors, LED conversions colours and housing colours, you can just keep it simple or go full crazy if you want.
It was about 1.2k last time I checked, but was a few years ago
https://www.iilumolab.com/
I put led's on my hotrod a yr or 2 ago and didnt like the look, didnt like the cool white colour and was blinding cars in front on SMT's i went on. End up changing back to old school lights, warm white, textured light although less bright, but more period, very happy now.
Maybe just old not so grumpy...
🙂
I feel it's very very hit and miss. I normally gawk at them, but have seen some really clean simple designs that someone spent lots of time thinking about and getting just right. I must add it's not common though haha.
Altezza lights summed up the tuning scene for almost a decade haha. Such good times.
Well I went and made my own using most of the stock parts so there was no problem with fitting as they already fitted the car.
Insanely easy in the end, I made an adapter to fit 7" LED units into the stock housing so they fit an adjust exactly the same as stock. All that happens is the new light unit with the adapter replaces the H4 reflector and bulb, you just transfer the stock rubber grommets from the stock reflector to the tabs on the adapter and put the new unit in. You can customize the look of the lights from stock look to restomod by choosing which light unit you want (from the Australian Stedi range, DOT approved) in combination with either leaving the inner housing frosted silver or paint matt/satin black and use either the stock H4 lens again or clear early Beetle/356 lenses. Once any painting is done and after the light unit swap all is plug and play in 10-15 mins.
As my car is hotrodded a touch I chose the Stedi Carbon Black units, painted the housings black and fitted early clear lenses. Result extremely good, lights align and dip correctly so no blinding other motorists, tested with H4 lenses and is very good then switched to the early clear for the look, slightly crisper beam but some may even prefer the spread of light with the H4 lenses, great either way.
Cost me approx. $600 to do it. I was concerned about spending mega bucks on some imported ones and there being issues.
Hi Mate,
I drew up a design in Light CAD that mated the Stedi light units and lined up the new tabs with the stock reflector tab positions and had the adaptors laser cut out and the tabs folded at a local engineering shop.
I could send you the file, I made 5 sets of adaptors at the time I made my lights, ended up selling two whole light conversions and the other two sets of adaptor rings.
The beauty of this is you can create whatever the look of lights you want, stock to restomod and they fit perfectly because the light housings came out of the car to begin with.
Cheers,
Phil
Thanks Phil, I ended up modifying one of the many online brackets to do essentially the same thing. These brackets have the cutouts to match with the mouldings on the back of the LED housing, you do need to weld on a bracket to fit the reflector tabs (essentially a rectangular piece with an 8mm hole)
Lukas
