I had polished/restored my OEM housings for the last time. I was tired of driving at night and not being able to see anything, especially in the rain. I couldn't see my own headlights shining on the road when riding next to a newer vehicle with something different or better than 9006/9005 halogens. I bought some joke of a pair of chinese chrome/black housings (Spyder?) that were complete garbage. Those housings were a joke. The adjusters broke. The housings and mounting plates were flimsier than a cereal box. I had been raked over the coals by that company with restocking fees and "we'll let you know how much refund you get once we receive our bunk **** back from you and inspect it". Time for a new plan. I started to like the HID concept, decided I needed housings with glare caps so I could retrofit 5000K 35W relayed and 4-hi'd HID's. The only company I trusted to buy from was Anzo. Everyone said if you want quality aftermarket housings, Anzo. The only ones I liked were these low brow housings.
While waiting for them to ship, I installed a set of HID's in my wife's car with relay harness and promptly replaced both ballasts within a week, and decided that HID's have no dependability. I have enough new in box HID crap at my house to light up half of Nebraska, if they would actually work.
When I got the lights, I noticed a different brand name (Eagle Eyes) on the boxes and a whole bunch of chinese writing and thought, son of a *****, these are chinese junk too. Then the installation was the same. Flimsy mounting plates, housings would not center in the grill, aiming adjustment was better but nowhere near OEM.
Just so everyone knows, the brows are not LED. There is a bulb (maybe a 194) behind the lens between the high and low beam compartments that shines into the little brow tube.
The brows wouldn't light up all the way, like there was trash in the tubes or something. I emailed Anzo, because there is no other way to contact them. Tried this numerous times, and received no response. Still to this day no response. I was pissed.
So, I put the expensive 9006/9005 halogens in there and got them aimed the best I could, and they SUCKED. Worse than my OEM housings. A buddy on this board told me about the HIR 9011 bulbs. I got some of them hoping I would actually be able to see at night. They're better, but still SUCK. The glare caps have to be the problem. They make a really cruddy throw pattern. This was re-proven to me whan I put a set of 9011 HIR's in my wife's GMT800 Suburban, in the stock housings. Dammit boy, those suckers are BRIGHT. My truck and hers parked next to each other with the lights on (same lights) and you can't even tell my headlights are on.
The only thing I like about them now is that nobody else has them, and it looks pretty cool at dawn/dusk with my parking lights on and the little brows lit up. Otherwise, THEY SUCK DONKEY.
