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Looked up the member who you’re referring to and the threads you’re talking about and with the amount of praise these vleds get and lifespan without the need to bake and perform surgery to install, I’m ordering right now.

Do you just install them in place of the halogens? Hows the light output vs halogens and of course, their lifetime?

Oh yeah I'm anticipating it will be. If only there were an easier way to install better (longer lasting) lights in this thing.

Here’s the concept I whipped up for my plans. Interested to see how it turns out.

The cracking open I'm referring to is in order to convert to xenon in place of the halogens. Not for the cleaning/tinting process. The end result hopefully will be headlights that won't go yellow from UV and eliminating the need to change my lightbulbs twice a year.

Glad to hear the praise for laminx. It's looking like my weekend will be filled with wetsanding/buffing/polishing/ReNuLite to get these things looking new and ordering the Laminx and installing when they get here. I'm not exactly looking forward to cracking these open to install the xenon replacements. Anyone know if this is a relatively straight-forward install once the glass has been removed? I know the brackets are laser cut and all that but i cant exactly keep this thing off the road with it being my daily driver.

Have you recently upset a very clever girlfriend?

Awesome, thanks for all the help here guys. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this finally satisfies me and I can stop making headlight posts. Just to be clear, with the retrofit kit, a ballast is necessary for these to work? And as far as "drop in", does this involve baking and removing the glass/plastic/whatever it is in front of the projectors? I've never gone the laminx route, I was actually considering going to a shop that does this stuff which I'm sure costs way more. Anyone try laminx on here without issue?

My 2010 OEM lights are starting to show their age and I know sanding and putting a UV protectant on will clear them up, but I also know that that will turn into a yearly project. I've tried aftermarket headlights but holy shit what a terrible experience aiming them. What I did like about them was the mild tint they had that looked great on my black car. I'm curious if I were to clean/buff/whatever my OEM housings and then have someone put a tint film on them, would they still yellow, and if they did, could you even tell under the film? Sidebar, are there any decent tutorials on retrofitting HID/xenon/whatever lights into our OEM housings?

Yea thats beyond the scope of what I feel like doing.

and that would be? So I'm seeing that some euro/japanese models come with xenon/hid from the factory as well as black housings? Is there a source for those I'm unaware of? Beyond that, are the connections different or something that would make a swap of this nature more of a headache than its worth?

Reviving this to update that I've put the stock housings back in place once the bulbs burnt out on the aftermarket replacements. Once the factory housings went back in, I realized just how badly I must've been blinding other drivers for months with the aftermarkets. As mentioned in this thread, the adjustments are a massive pain in the ass and in the end aren't effective. So I'm back on the hunt for another set of headlight housings. I'm thinking of doing a junkyard search for some OEM's that I can modify with something from retrofit source. I really did enjoy how good the darker housing looked so I'm considering getting them professionally tinted.

The output is the same but I really need to adjust the height.

ill post better pictures after a wash and away from my garage.

so everything went smoothly including the reapplication of the bumper. guess practice really does make perfect. i need to figure out a more permanent solution for my foglights. it looks like whatever tabs they use to hold them in place have all snapped. theyre currently being held in place by gorilla tape. sorry about the filthy car. its been raining alot lately. I really like the dark housings with the black paint job. makes me want to do something with my grille.

So my DNA Auto headlights arrived today and apparently they read the reviews/comments on amazon because the advice I'd received here as well as the mentioned online mega mall was false. The H1 LED bulbs I bought for these did not fit. The H7 bulbs I had, however, did. Anyway, they get mounted on the car tomorrow. I'll post pics of the bulb issues in this post and hopefully a success story tomorrow after the bumper has been reapplied... the two prongs above wouldnt allow the bulb to sit flush below not sure if others' lights have this marking surrounding the bulb housing.

Can anyone possibly post a link for all the stock bulbs? I feel like there’s 12 different lights in our housings. Edit: Does this seem correct? 2010 Subaru Legacy Replacement Light Bulb Size Guide Low Beam Headlight Bulb Size: H7 or H7 HID Upgrade Kit High Beam Headlight Bulb Size: 9005 or 9005 HID Upgrade Kit Parking Light Bulb Size: 168 Front Turn Signal Light Bulb Size: 7440 Rear Turn Signal Light Bulb Size: 992 (7440A) Tail Light Bulb Size: 7443 Stop Light Bulb Size: 7443 High Mount Stop LIght Bulb Size: LED Bulb Fog/Driving Light Bulb Size: H11 or H11 HID Upgrade Kit License Plate Light Bulb Size: 168 Back Up Light Bulb Size: 921 Front Sidemarker Light Bulb Size: 168 Rear Sidemarker Light Bulb Size: 7443 Map Light Bulb Size: DE3175 Dome Light Bulb Size: DE3175 Step/Courtesy Light Bulb Size: 168 Trunk/Cargo Area Light Bulb Size: 168

I’m well aware of the UV coating and everything associated with it. Despite best efforts it was a once a year pain in my ass. You mentioned 1-2 years for the life of the cheap led bulbs? That’s a vast improvement over the mayyyybe half a year I get from oem bulbs.

just ordered a pair of DNA's and the H1's linked. wish me luck.

Did all the other bulbs fit as they should?

So my headlights are yellowing on my '10 and after the yearly sanding and buffing I had to do on my last car to keep the housings clear, I've decided to just replace the assembly's due to wayyyyy more affordable pricing than my last car (mazdaspeed 6). The problem I'm running into is there are a large amount of options, though most just look like rebranded versions of each other. I'm not interested in the $600 ones that theres a thread about that apparently have a fitment issue. I'm finding on amazon Acanii, DNA motoring, and CarLights360. On CarID I'm seeing spyder and lumen. Anyone have anything good or bad to say about any of these brands? I see they all change the style bulb from H1 to H7 or vice versa. Does this type of bulb last longer than the 7 months the stock bulbs tend to run? Fitment issues? I believe I remember people saying that 2012+ assemblies will fit my 2010 despite cosmetic differences? Whatever you've got to say on the subject, I'm all ears.

stunning paint job

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gonna need exact measurements including offset. what coils are you on?

all that would do for me is make sure i set the AP to valet mode with every visit.