Headlight mods? I am clueless!

[Draconicwraith]

I just bought my '14 Mirage SE yesterday, and am very happy with it... With one exception. The head and fog lights. I have tried to search the forum for answers but have come up dry, so here they are. I apologize if I just missed the proper threads.

Question 1:
Will it be possible to put halo HID headlamps onto my car? Part 2 of that is I would love to get the LED lights around the headlights like I see on newer audi and other cars of their type.

Question 2:
Best way to add a hard drive essentially to my car for music. The current entertainment system doesn't come with a touchscreen.

Question 3:
More like asking for advice on the best way to tint my windows.


I know this should be in different parts of the forum, but once I started typing, it all kind of spilled out.

Also, any ideas on a name for my new vehicle would be appreciated!

[R01k]

Question 2:
Best way to add a hard drive essentially to my car for music. The current entertainment system doesn't come with a touchscreen.

You mean to connect a HDD to the USB port?

[Draconicwraith]

In theory should work, but will probably go with a large thumb drive.

[R01k]

That's what I did. Unless you have an ungodly large music collection, a thumb drive should be enough.

[Draconicwraith]

Is 3Tb ungodly large?

[rednwhitecooper]

Well, HID headlamps must be available in other markets from the factory. There is a headlamp height adjuster next to the auto start-stop button and mirror controls.

TheRetrofitSource sells fantastic kits for putting proper HIDs in your stock housing. They self align and have prewired relay harnesses. Its what I plan on doing. I just want to get my hands on another set of OEM headlamps first so I can practice opening them up before I tear into my original ones.

[Draconicwraith]

Maybe I am wrong, but doesn't installing the HID bulbs in the stock housing run a risk of essentially melting the housing? Other than that, can you send me some info on what I am looking for?

[91cavgt]

Maybe I am wrong, but doesn't installing the HID bulbs in the stock housing run a risk of essentially melting the housing? Other than that, can you send me some info on what I am looking for?

I don't know about an automobile's housing, but on my old scooter, I installed an HID in place of the stock headlight and never had a problem with it melting anything. I did go with a 35 watt HID setup though instead of a 50 watt setup.

[R01k]

Is 3Tb ungodly large?

Compared to the average people, it is. I have 5000+ songs, but ignore the exact storage size because they are all in Google Music. What I did was put all the favorite ones in a 9GB thumb drive.

However, you'll want to check the USB files reading limitations on the manual before hooking a large drive.

[rednwhitecooper]

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/

These aren't crap "HID kits" like what you get on eBay. It is a Bi-xenon HID retrofit using lots of OEM components.

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/com...-3-kit-h1.html

It involves baking your headlamp in the oven and removing the lens to install the projector. They are equivalent to most OEM HID setups.