Euro Head Light Housings from ebay: Cannot Recommend

[Big T]

Can't find the thread here anymore, but a few months back there was a thread on HID head lights and in it there was a recommendation provided for euro style headlight housings sold on ebay. Another poster and myself bought them. The other poster had issues with the lights not sitting flush and was able to get his shipping costs refunded. It seemed at the time like mine had less issues than his, but when installed they did not sit flush. Following advice, I sealed around the housings with silicone and despite that, still got water inside one housing after just a light washing of the truck. The clips holding the lens to the housing are loose and I used silicone to hold them in place. The biggest problem is that no matter how much I work the adjusting bolts, there's no adjustment left or right. The up down adjuster on the passenger side bottomed out with the light above where I needed it to match the driver side and now the bottom of the housing rocks out and up. Yes it is loose and it potentially wobbles. As a result, I have yet to install the HID kits that I purchased. Very frustrating. Just letting others here know about the problems so they can steer clear of these. I did keep the OEM housings. They're badly yellowed and scaled up, but maybe the 3M treatment will clean them up.

 

[Pruittx2]

You should be able to remove the lens from the backing plate,, and use your stock backing plate, adjusters on the new lens,,

 

[JMJNet]

x2!!! I just take off the new lens and used the existing backing plate. It was too much work to replace the backing plate.

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

I got the projector styles off fleabay last year and also ran into issues with the adjusters. I had to take a grinder and cut em down some to clear so I could get them to adjust in enough. The problem is that the adjusters are all plastic except for the adjuster bolt. So you grind a little and use a wet rag and water to cool em off so you don't melt the adjusters.