Ford E-Series Van HID Projector Retrofit lights

[SteelheadJones]

Scott and Buffalo, thanks. Now to see if I can talk Santa into $475...

BTW Scott, just to clarify, is the D2S 4.0 not available for the Sealed Beam Retrofit kit?

(EDIT) So apparently only first generation Astros and Safaris have the single 5x7 sealed beams...



Mine is a second generation, which has side-by-side low and high beams in one housing...



So bummed! And back to square one, lights that are decent but don't feel completely safe on a dark night in the boonies.

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Originally Posted by SteelheadJones

Scott and Buffalo, thanks. Now to see if I can talk Santa into $475...

BTW Scott, just to clarify, is the D2S 4.0 not available for the Sealed Beam Retrofit kit?

Steelhead- correct, the 4.0s are a significantly larger projector that don't fit without tremendous work. My honest opinion is to run the 7.0 h1 units with the Morimoto ballasts and bulbs... you will be happy!

Scott Thompson
Vantage Optics

[SteelheadJones]

Thanks Scott but see my edited post above. I don't think there's a solution after all. Except maybe something like this...

Could it be run with the Morimoto innards?

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Originally Posted by SteelheadJones

Thanks Scott but see my edited post above. I don't think there's a solution after all. Except maybe something like this...

Could it be run with the Morimoto innards?

Ah, now I see what you mean. If you can find a clear lens model without the projectors that would be best. We could fill them with Morimoto H1 projectors and you will be set.

Scott Thompson
Vantage Optics
vantageoptics.com
Vantageoptics@gmail.com
424-250-0270

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Scott Thompson
Vantage Optics
vantageoptics
Vantageoptics@gmail.com
424-250-0270

[limerence]

Originally Posted by limerence

Picked up a set from Scott yesterday! Lookin forward to installing her next weekend!

A year has gone by and I havent gotten around to installing the kit on my 99 E350 yet. Hoping to do it this week. Saw that LEDs kit now offered? Shucks.. oh well. Will install the HIDs I have. How tough is the install Scott?

Thanks,
John

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Originally Posted by limerence

A year has gone by and I havent gotten around to installing the kit on my 99 E350 yet. Hoping to do it this week. Saw that LEDs kit now offered? Shucks.. oh well. Will install the HIDs I have. How tough is the install Scott?

Thanks,
John

John,

The install isn't bad, but does take some time to complete. It takes me a little less than two hours start to finish

Scott Thompson
Vantage Optics
vantageoptics
Vantageoptics@gmail.com
424-250-0270

[Sam C]

The new "thing" in LED's is a heated lens or cover. Why? Because LED's are "cold" and cold lights get covered in snow and don't melt it off. The new versions on the market are set up to start heating if the temp gets much below 50 degrees.
Trucklight makes them for jeeps.
JW Speaker has now introduced heated 5x7's (model 8910) (which I am looking at).
But I must say, your lights look amazing, way better than anything else that I have seen.
My question is, how warm to these get? Is a heated lens cover needed or even an option for those traveling into the snow?

Thanks,

Sam

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Originally Posted by Sam C

The new "thing" in LED's is a heated lens or cover. Why? Because LED's are "cold" and cold lights get covered in snow and don't melt it off. The new versions on the market are set up to start heating if the temp gets much below 50 degrees.
Trucklight makes them for jeeps.
JW Speaker has now introduced heated 5x7's (model 8910) (which I am looking at).
But I must say, your lights look amazing, way better than anything else that I have seen.
My question is, how warm to these get? Is a heated lens cover needed or even an option for those traveling into the snow?

Thanks,

Sam

Sam,

The HID versions of these lights get pretty warm, but we will have to ask other people how theirs perform in chilly weather. The LED versions have not seen use in weather yet from what I can tell, so it's quite hard to say. The led units do produce quite a bit of heat though as they have built-in fans to cool the heatsinks.

Scott Thompson
Vantage Optics
vantageoptics
Vantageoptics@gmail.com
424-250-0270

[Sam C]

Scott,
Well I'm going to go for it. Will call you re details on ordering. If things are not too backordered I can have it on my rig this month and in Mammoth next. We will hopefully have enough weather to give a good report back. I have halogen hella 500's in the bumper so lack of light in a snow storm should not be a significant worry of mine.