New Cobra Headlights

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Okay, well I had been neglecting my car for far too long and it was high time to do a bunch of repairs and upgrades. I mostly started on the safety stuff. Brakes were bad so I upgraded to Bullitt style brakes, then I helped out the exhaust a bit by adding a magnaflow. Last weekend it was new Cobra headlights for my dingy nasty old OEM headlights that just wouldn't buff out anymore. It was getting so that I could barely see the road at night. I found these Cobra headlights for about 30 bucks a piece brand new. Putting them in should have been simple... Taking out the stock lights took a bit of figuring out, but it came out smoothly enough. When I put the first new headlight in it didn't seem to me that it was clicking in all the way... So I kept pushing and pushing on it to get it to sort of click or latch in when all of a sudden I heard "Crack!". Turns out I busted one of the side adjusters and the headlight was just hanging from one side. So after a lot of polite cursing and stomping trying to get the lamp back out I gave up and just broke the broken adjuster out. I found the same adjuster on the old headlamp, but it was sort of glued in. I finally got it free after practically breaking it off and then put it on the new lamp which worked perfectly fine. The second headlight went in with far less frustration. A 20-40 minute job took me probably 2 hours.

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Cruizin GT said:
Looks so much better, nice job.

Thank you sir. Wish I had thought of taking more before pictures because those old headlights were nasty.
 
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US Soldier said:
looks 5000000x better

Its amazing what a couple cheap headlights will do to the overall look of a car. I really liked this mod and for like 65 bucks, can't beat the price.
 

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VERY NICE! Car looks COMPLETELY different/better.
I think this is probably the best "exterior" mod to do to your car with a very small budget.

Where did you pick theses up for $65 if you don't mind me asking?
 
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Thanks guys. I agree with best exterior mod on the cheap. I got them from a website called www.partsgorilla.comhttp:// for $63.70 shipped. The part number for these are HL 1017-L and HL 1017-R, but if you do a search you can find them pretty easy. I believe the poster Won is the one who posted on another cheap place to get stock Cobras, but this place was about 8 bucks cheaper.
 
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Thanks dude. I always turn back to look at em when I get out of the car. I just wish the rest of the car looked as nice. :D
 
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JerZeyStangz said:
Something is missing, stock corners ftl....

Really? I actually prefer amber stock corner lights to say... clears. Do you have any recommendations keeping that in mind?
 
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Boo$t Or Die said:
get rid of the sun **** sides imo bro

The sun-what-sides?

1bad95 said:
looks great man!! i will be ordering me a set next week!

Thanks man. Put up a thread when you do. Love to see how it comes out.
 

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