gvns8

One of my headlights went out and I am looking to upgrade both but I am on somewhat of a budget. Has anyone done an upgrade that has made a very noticable difference without spending too much? or should I just save up and get HID's?

GTPstarter

gvns8,
All I did was buy an inexspensive set of 55w clear driving lights. Got them at Advance for around 40.00, mounted them in the predrilled holes on top of the bumper and sighted them in.
I do a lot of Sunday night driving through the woods of northern Pa. and I don't think I could do with-out them.
But I too would be interested in seeing what other people have done to upgrade their headlights on a budget.

GTP

SeriousOffroad

Silverstar headlights. $20 per and worth a lot more.

Crazythingsido2

http://www.quadratec.com/products/97009_501.htm

gvns8

thanks for the input guys, any one else able to attest to the ones Crazythingsido2 listed or similar lights? I might do those just to have replaceable bulbs.

xj_maniac_newb

get some walmart bajas, i think they make a big difference. They go on when my lights go on

elpotro1331

that is one hell of an upgrade a buddy of mine has them and if you want his opinion he is la ARANA in this forum I highly recommend them.I have not gotten mine because I have issues with my XJ and want to fix them first.

e30

i have hella H4's with the heavy duty headlight harness and its like day light, in comparison my bmw has stock 55w xenons and these put out the same amount of light. im very pleased with the set up and even other people who have no knowledge of lighting or cars have noticed the increased light out put, also the H4's have a very nice straight cut off line and i never blind on coming drivers

e30

this is the harness i got...it literally doubled the light output of the H4's

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f51/hd...rite-up-11306/

gvns8

Good to hear. So maybe I will go ahead and get some h4's and that harness. However, I am a little confused about your setup. You said you run 100/80watt headlights lights in your writeup. Are those street legal? Or were you referring to your spotlights that you mounted on the bumper?

e30

i just followed that guys write up to put the harness in, its not my write up...im using the stock bulbs that came supplied with the hellas im sure if you used the 100/80w that guy has it will be bright as hell haha

gvns8

Oh ok my bad its late here haha. I think I might go with that combo then because its like half the price of decent HID's. Was there much of an improvement for you going from stock lights to h4's before the harness upgrade?

e30

all good man no worries! ...yea man it was a huge upgrade the lights made a big difference in the distribution of light. My old lights kinda scattered it where this has even uniform light all the way to the cut off, but i decided to buy the HD harness with some extra paypal money i had not expecting it to make a big difference and it made a massive difference! i couldnt believe it! thats well worth spending the money to get

Svrider

I converted my headlights to h4's i pulled a set of headlight housings outta a ford probe turbo for $10 from pull-a-part and took a set of h4's from my civic here is what they look like. perfect fit bolt right up to original housing. and h4 plug is same as original light pug. the light housing itself is way cleaner then the stock jeep light cause it doesn't have that film to it so they are brighter. and now i got blue bulbs

Reefmike

I just put a pair of these in. All I can say is "WOW"! What a difference over the old Wagners.