How To : Upgrade stock bulbs to 9012/9011 Or HIR1/HIR2

[Pampo'sTruck]

My sentiments exactly! lol

 

[someotherguy]

I didn't trim a whole tab off lol

Really?

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By the way, the tab trimming is very well-documented across the internet. A very small cut to the center tab is all that is needed.

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I asked here, no one had heard of it

Really?

If you search this forum for "9012" you'll find several other threads about them, some recent...

Everyone's a critic

No; just some people are very unobservant. I'm not one of them.

Richard

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Sigh... You win the Internet dude... Nevertheless, I'm happy with my bulbs, tabs, and write up

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[Jrgunn5150]

 

[thunderstruck]

So, it's basically a bolt in, I mean, I used a cut off wheel on a grinder, but you could use a hot butter knife to trim the tabs.

Dead serious, a toe nail clipper works best for trimming those tabs.


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[df2x4]

Dead serious, a toe nail clipper works best for trimming those tabs.


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Was about to post this, very true.

One thing to keep in mind about this mod (and one of the reasons I never ended up doing it) is that the HIR bulbs don't have any shielding on the tips of the bulbs like the factory halogens do. If your headlight assemblies don't have glare caps like you'd use with HIDs, you're going to be making some oncoming traffic unhappy.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Was about to post this, very true.

One thing to keep in mind about this mod (and one of the reasons I never ended up doing it) is that the HIR bulbs don't have any shielding on the tips of the bulbs like the factory halogens do. If your headlight assemblies don't have glare caps like you'd use with HIDs, you're going to be making some oncoming traffic unhappy.

I did not know that, interesting.

So far I haven't been getting flashed in the Trailblazer, I guess time will tell.

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[Pampo'sTruck]

It helped me. I wouldn't have known to search for 9012. I searched for headlight on my phone when i was at walmart earlier getting a tire put on my truck and got 0 results. Prob my phone but just saying. Also I'm not a member on other forums. Only here.

Not everyone is going to have the 411 or even have any idea of what might be possible to even search for it in the first place.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Thanks! I know I hadn't heard about it when I did it to my Trailblazer. Of course the info was out there for me to find, that's why I posted the links I did.

I don't know everything, but this works for me.

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[someotherguy]

Sigh... You win the Internet dude... Nevertheless, I'm happy with my bulbs, tabs, and write up

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Wasn't trying to win anything, doof. You couldn't take a small amount of constructive criticism and decided to get butthurt and try to be snarky with me, and got shut down. Life's short; move on.

Richard