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Wow, that looks like a great kit. Let us know if you buy it and try it out. Someone has to be a guinea pig!

 

Did you decide to try it out yet?

 

That one looks like its already done and ready to install. If i understand what you want to do correctly, I think your better off buying cheap stock lights and starting from scratch since you would have to open those lights and modify it for your bi-xenon projectors.


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Its kinda expensive. Ive seen some reviews about projector headlights from ebay where the fit was so bad and off. Though not for an odyssey. . Hoping someone has any feedback for the headlights.

 

if the kit you received as a gift kit is a pnp kit, that produce a lot of glare and it's a cop magnet, pnp kit give the illussion of being brighter but actually it's the oposite, they're very bright closer to the car but far ahead they're no brighter than halogens, and the glare blind oncoming traffic and rearview mirrors, if you want to upgrade your headlights the right way and know how to open a headlight with a heatgun you need to buy a MH1 projectors kit with xb35 4300k bulbs, that's the entry level QUALITY kit you can fit to your vehicle, i had it in my odyssey and now have it in my CRV and trust me this projectors perform equal or a little better than an acura TSX lights, any question PM me cause i don't check this site often, i don't know if i can mention other sites here but i can tell you where to look

 

Those appear to be Mini H1 projectors in that ebay kit. It's not an OEM style bulb base, but there is a benefit to Mini H1 over Mini D2S in that the H1 re-based bulb (HID capsule, to be technically correct) uses a slightly longer projector housing, and this makes a noticeable difference in how well it throws light down the road where you need it.

In my experience, the Mini H1 does a slightly better job. I installed the Mini D2S projectors from TRS, and will probably remove them to do a little tweaking like install a foreground limiter, chrome every flat surface facing the collector, and black out every flat surface facing the lens.

I think you can install a Mini H1 kit for less than what they're charging for that deal on ebay. I think it would be best to buy a pair of TYC 99-04 headlights on ebay for about $85 shipped, and use those for your project. They don't have a great halogen reflector, but that's okay because you're going to install projectors. That way, you can yank them and re-install the stock OEM headlights should you sell your Ody in the future.

Next, go to TRS and get their Mini H1 kit. I've installed the Mini D2S kit in my 2003 Ody, and the combination of an incorrectly made H4 adapter ring by TRS and the not-so-great reach of the Mini D2S projected light pattern compared to the Mini H1 have me convinced that the Mini H1 is a better projector. I can't recommend TRS's Mini D2S projector or kits with that projector until they fix those issues, especially the incorrectly machined adapter ring which forces the cutoff to be several degrees off level and badly canted up to the left.

I fixed the tilt, and after the foreground limiter install plus other small work, my D2S setup should be where I'd like it. Even in its purely "out of the box form", with only the cant fixed, it puts out more light than even really good bulbs like Osram Hyper or Philips X-Treme power.

Here's the 2nd Gen HID thread started by LXODY, page 5 being phatmitz's install.

Official HID Thread

My install is on page 6 of the thread.

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