replacing headlights

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okinawa drift
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alright well time has come to change the headlights since they are pretty much dead and they are sealed beam lights, and the car is an 89 240sx with stock front end..

i was gonna ask, does anyone have any experience with ebay headlights? are they any good?

are they street legal? lol

like these for example..

fcking cheaphttp://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...A1318


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S13Joe
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you get what you pay for, thats all i have to say.

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i bought some of those. The bubls blew out within a month for me

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oh damn the h4 conversion look legit, but damn those are expensive

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That's Hella for you :P

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okinawa drift
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is it the housing on those lights that are so expensive?

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Yep, not the cheap ebay kind. They're ECE design, aka e-codes. They focus the light more to the right and on the road.


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