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Old 02-02-2015, 09:28 PM
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Custom led headlight retrofit 05 f150

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Old 02-02-2015, 09:32 PM
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Custom led headlight retrofit

I alreay posted this in the lighting forums, but i will post it here too. I came up with the idea to retrofit a set of jw speaker led lights into my 05 f150 headlight assemblies. Here is how they turned out. Not sure if this has been done before or not. Hope you like them.








 
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Old 02-02-2015, 10:01 PM
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Looking good! Nice to see another Alberta f150's member in here.
 
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Old 02-02-2015, 10:09 PM
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Haha, so you probably have already seen me post this on fb. We have very similar trucks. I debated doing an all black housing with black speaker light, but was unsure if it would look good. I see from your truck, that combination would have looked good too
 
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Old 02-02-2015, 10:17 PM
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Sure looks good man, now where is the How-to?
 
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Love to see more details, how you mounted them, what the nighttime shot looks like, etc.

Looks awesome at first glance, I wonder if you're the first....
 
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Old 02-02-2015, 11:19 PM
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Yeah I saw it, great set up though. Looks good with the chrome signal bucket as well. Matches really good. How's the output?
 
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Old 02-02-2015, 11:44 PM
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the output is pretty good. I think you would get more output from a set of hid's but jw speaker light outputs the maximum legal amount to be DOT approved. Compared to stock, it is a definite improvement. I still think the lights are over priced for what they are, they should be at a price point of half of what they are. The price kinda makes this type of project not practical for most people to try. I had to give it a shot once i realized the round space in the f150 headlight was 7". I have a night shot, but its a little deceptive because the night sky was also pretty light out that night.


 
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Old 02-03-2015, 12:18 AM
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That's pretty decent for output.
 
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Old 02-03-2015, 08:28 AM
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Wondering when someone was going to do this....turned it looking pretty good

I would've used the black ones though
 
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Old 02-03-2015, 11:38 AM
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Hey.

Very nice indeed. Perfect fit. Pricey, eh? Oye- fer $700, you could get absolute top-shelf HID retrofits with all OEM components and the very latest capsules, but certainly not the exclusivity of yer install.

Can you post up some wall shots at 50-100 feet or so? Thankee!

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sub'd for moar pics!
 
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Old 02-03-2015, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by dom07
Love to see more details, how you mounted them, what the nighttime shot looks like, etc.

Looks awesome at first glance, I wonder if you're the first....
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^^^X2. The lights looks great. Nice job! Would love to see some pics of the process if you have any and more output pics also. I've got a pair of new oem heads I was wondering what to do with, this might be it. Even tho I don't need a 3rd set of retrofit heads or do I

Btw- beautiful truck
 
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Hey I spent $600 on my retro and I did it myself. So those speakers aren't that crazy of price. .

Output looks pretty good, kinda a lot of foreground tho
 
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That's pretty dang cool!
 


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