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This Christmas Santa brought me...

New Corners
New Headlights
New taillights
LED taillight bulbs

I have had 6000K HID's in my highbeams/lowbeams and foglights since August so these are not new. I bought the Bi-xenon kit and a H10 for the fogs. I LOVE them. They look better in these new headlights however. Keep in mind I have adjusted my headlights down so they do not glare at other drivers as much. If you install HID's like I did plan on doing the same thing because HID's have a wider beam pattern than crappy halogen lights. I will NEVER have halogen lights on any vehicle I own again.

Here is a good pic of the new headlights and corners...sorry the truck is just a tiny bit dirty. Its been crappy lately in Chicago...

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Here is a picture of the new tail lights - These are aftermarket tail lights for a 1993-2000 ranger, and my truck is a 2004 - I had to rewire a few things but it was really easy to modify them to work with 3 bulb lights instead of the stock 2 bulb setup.



Here is a picture of the new LED reverse bulbs I got - they are SOO bright and blue. Whoever says that you cannot get a good LED reverse bulb is wrong. These suckers are awesome! They match the blueish glow my HID have.....



Here is a closeup of how my HID look.



Here is a far away shot of how my HID look.



Here is a shot of what I see at night when I drive around with my HID's on - The range is just incredible....



I took this last picture to show how my driving lights look from behind, but it does a good job also of showing how wide the HID beam goes to the side.

 
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Wow that looks sick! Makes me want the HID's. What rear LED's did you get?
 
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Looks good skippy!
 
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Originally Posted by FX403/STX96
Wow that looks sick! Makes me want the HID's. What rear LED's did you get?
I bought my HID's from a guy on eBay "NISSANGTRPOWER".

I think with shipping both kits were like 350$ all together?

As for the LED tail bulbs, I got them on ebay as well from a guy "CAL-MOTOR" - 30$ including the shipping.

 
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DUDE that ranger is awesome.....I dont know if its just the picture but what is that blue called????? Looks different then any other blue I have seen on rangers
 
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My truck is Sonic Blue - I see these all the time. It's not a rare color.

I am looking to trade my custom made LED dome light with someone who has a stock domelight in good condition. This is the perfect oppourtunity for someone to get a brighter dome light. I have another post about this if anyone is interested.
 
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maybe its just the picture sweet looking truck man
 
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Thats nuts man...those lights look just awesome
 
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my cornea is burned now.
 
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Looks good man. Those tails are knockoffs of APC tails that were out years ago. I put those on my old '01 ranger.....i wired the top "red dot" to be the tail/brake/turn, and the bottom "red dot" I wired up as just a taillight. Reminded me of a Dodge.

Looks good man...keep up the moddin'!
 
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watch out for the hid haters here. looks good man. i got the same bulbs but amber in my turn signals up front. they are hella bad *** lol.



 
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Im diggin the reverse light bulbs, I just put a set of auxilary lights on the rear bumper for backup lights
 
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Has anyone bought the spiderlite bulbs for the brake lights, rear turn signals or front turn signals... I hate my stock incandescent bulbs - I want to try these but I'd like some live photos first....
 
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Has anyone bought the spiderlite bulbs for the brake lights, rear turn signals or front turn signals... I hate my stock incandescent bulbs - I want to try these but I'd like some live photos first....
Am sitting here looking at the website right now.. pretty costy... wouldnt midn seeing them in action sometime myself for that price.. eesh..!
 
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Originally Posted by WowMike2001
Am sitting here looking at the website right now.. pretty costy... wouldnt midn seeing them in action sometime myself for that price.. eesh..!
Dude, I wouldnt buy them there, they sell them cheaper on autolumination.com or superlumination.com I think... or another website I might have bookmarked at work.

Ive seen em' for 30 or 40 each. I have the money I just want good results.
 
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