Quote: Originally Posted by evo77
Are you talking about just the general design of the headlamp in terms of light output? Because yes stock isn't the greatest. You can improve halogen performance by installing some Silverstars but the difference is marginal.
If you think someone tampered with the internals and threw the beam pattern off, look to see if the lamps are OEM. They'll have the Valeo stamp on the front lense. Or look around the headlamp where the lense connects to back housing. Does it look reglued or undone?
Otherwise if you don't want to spend the big cash to upgrade to superior lighting such as a HID projector retrofit, then your stuck with crappy halogens.
After my multifunction switch melted, i rewired my headlights using a relay off my parking lights, so if the parking lights were on, my low beams came on, I ran the power directly off the battary, then through a new fuse box, and i can tell you it make my lights so much brighter. I no longer have the yellow tint (car came with "cool blue" bulbs from autozone) and they are actually a light blue tint. The stock headlight wiring goes through a couple areas where the fog light and head light pass throuh 16 or 18 gauge wiring, basically speaker wire. Its rediculous, my whole headlight system is run on 10 gauge (overkill?
) and its like a night and day difference.
