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Old 11-09-2014, 07:23 PM
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RichieST
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So, this is something that I have been playing with for the last few months. Almost a year ago I purchased a set of second hand headlamps, so I could 'blackeye' them, was pretty pleased with the results. As standard, the car came with halogen bulbs behind a projector lens, which also has a system called AFS, which turn the lamp units side to side while turning the steering. It is quite a clever system that really does help driving through the lanes at night.

So, this is how the car looked with the blackeye headlamps fitted.

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I fitted a HID kit to them which worked well behind a projector lens, but there was definitely no substitute for a proper HID projector lens.

I could have just slung in a set of HID xenon units from another Mondeo, but they don't have AFS for some reason, it is only the halogen units the have it. I wanted the best of both worlds, so got creative lol.

I purchased a pair of Morimoto H1 projector lenses from America and set about fitting them. It certainly wasn't easy and I couldn't fit them how they are designed to be fitted, due to the swivelling AFS feature.

These are the lenses I purchased,



Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of the install (kicking myself for not taking any) but have now got them in and working with LED indictors, both with no Canbus errors.



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And the beam output

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I will get some more pics with the sun off them, struggling a bit with my camera.

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