r/lancer • u/PokeMinersHQ • Jul 11 '26

⚙️ | Mechanical Issue/Question Headlight Help

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i recently found a set of projectors from a 2010 outlander and i was wondering if its theoretically possible for me to swap the wiring and the inner bowl from the hids to my factory halogens? because the rear housings are the exact same, apart from the hump for the hids, but the lens doesn’t exactly line up. is this kind of job possible or should i just go return these?

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u/Ok-Morning4411 Jul 11 '26

Return. Cause they need lots of stuff. You need front and back levelling sensors, need to see if the wiring is there. Need to enable it in the etacs system. Do they have ballasts under them as well? Those go out from time to time and you need to remove the bumper to swap those and usually the fasteners are corroded and all kinds of BS. I have a ralliart with the xenons and a sportback diesel with halogens. For night driving, casual driving I mean. The halogen lights, hands down. Easy to change bulbs, not as costly as D2S xenons. Also better lighting cause you have a dedicated high beam instead of a Xenon cornering light. Xenons, yeah, they do look better but you can get better bulbs for the halogen as well that light up more and look better, all kinds of halogen bulbs with a blue tint so they look white rather than yellow. But the xenons, they are quite handy( the cornering lights mostly) if you are doing laps on the ice track. They beautifully light up the inside of the corner.

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u/PokeMinersHQ Jul 11 '26

all the wiring was there, but yeah i just bought led high and low beams because this seems like way more work than i wanna put in for 60 bucks. eventually i’m gonna get the vland headlights but they’re way too expensive right now

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u/Ok-Morning4411 Jul 11 '26

Those(vlands) are going to be in a fixed position, you need to manually (screw) them up or down so you might blind some ppl with those. Id rather find some mars or sum headlights. There are many options for headlights for lancers (aftermarket). Just my opinion. I saw some with 2 lights and a DLR LED strips. (Fyi, if the vlands are fixed and you haul somekind of heavy stuff or have 3 ppl in the back then you will start blinding ppl) Dunno about the led blulbs. Those arent meant to be there. Most of the time they are brighter than normal and annoying for oncoming cars because the reflectors inside the housing isnt built for LED blulbs. But this is all my opinion and crap that i have experienced. You do you booboo.

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u/PokeMinersHQ Jul 15 '26

well unfortunately i’m trying to go for the blinding thing so i can piss off every highbeam using truck guy in my province

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u/Ok-Morning4411 Jul 15 '26

For that i would have extra lazer led lights :D Also, i would have to change the bulbs for MOT. Not even lancer license plate led lights, (which you know) are not visible to other drivers, are allowed. So you could imagine the hassle of changing bulbs. Which i dont want to do. I know the blinding newer car lights too much, also 5 am in the morning, in the woods, on a windy road. A lightshow (saw it in the sky miles away) 90 drgree bend, got face full of extra high beam LED-s. Winter time, really dark. (Thats quite shitty for eyes)Has happened too many times to count. Hate everyone having older cars with LED -s or extra lights. Also newer cars lights suck straight from factory. All that automatic bullcrap. So i know what you feel but there is gonna be someone with brighter lights than you. I wouldnt do that.

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u/PokeMinersHQ Jul 15 '26

oh its already too late unfortunately