My own view - I do think the matte black housing is more classy than the chrome, but it all depends the colour of your car.

Well worth the buy though - A 98 911 now looks like a car only a few years old:):)

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Some photoshopping I did.

The black housing does look better imo. Comments?

More photoshopping...

as you can see, this is probably going to be my next purchase -_-
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Chrome - no no no no, not on black:confused:

What have you done to my paint finish?????

NOW your car looks absoutely amazing PCC010
congrats - Black on Black a MUST!

Chrome stinks like hell on all colour cars, they look very cheap!
The black ones look way more genuine! its like a different light all together!

BLACK BLACK BLACK
NEVER EVER CHROME

I'm glad I waited another year for the black housing. Mine is on the plane...should be here next week. FYI car is zenith blue

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Geetee,
even on blue the black ones will look way way better then chrome
The roof is black the tires are abviously black,
so it will be fine.

The chrome would literally cheapen the look of the car - big time!
Glad you stayed away from chrome!

Black Rims would be your next move IMO
and all will balance very nicely.

mine were on back order for like 6 months, im sooo glad i waited
i would have never settled for chrome even if they were free!
they look so cheap in comparison.

PCC010- those look great! I am interested in some more thoughts about the difference in actual use between the stock and these.

geetee - when you get yours, we need pictures! If I get these, I am thinking Black for my Lapis Blue. I am curious to see it on the Zenith Blue.

Crono0001- I like the photoshop idea.

These are $795 right? Decisions decisions.

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Zenith Blue

wow it's nice to finally see some movement on the black housing headlights. but, is the wait really 3 months for a set of these? or are they starting to stock them now so the wait is a week or 2? I have been waiting to see everyone else's experience with these before pulling the trigger.

^^^^Got one in Lapis Blue?:D Thanks Crono0001. The chrome actually looks pretty good IMO.

I doubt they are going to take long to produce...I think they have the jig figured out now and can produce quicker....
It looks like you've got the chrome one's on a zenith blue. I'll post my blacked out ones for comparison.

Good news on the fitment - you can carefully peel the rubber seal off and re-stick so it fits flush against the light and bodywork.

However, am having a few issues with the LED indicators.

When working on park lights or on dimmed beam they work fine, but on main beam or fog lights they flash very quickly, basically flash quicky when there is any load on the electrical circuit.

Remember I have rear LED brake lights and the third brake lights are also LED with resistors fitted.

Can anyone help with the above?

I'm thinking I may need resistors on the front LED's - Appreciate if anyone can confirm.

Tip for anyone it is easy to dislodge the existing cable connector on the car, especially if you are pulling the lights in and out when setting the lights up - I did!

I reckon these Porsche's have their own bulit in memory!!!

Just gone back to the car and the lights are working perfectly!

It seems the ECU must take time to re-adust / learn the correct loadings etc.

Wierd!!!

Just buy a 15buck flasher relay and be done with it. Mine would do that with just the rear tail/3rd brakes. After the flasher relay, never a problem.

I agree Getee - if it starts to play up the relay is the answer.

Where would you recoomend installing it and which wires do I need to pick up. I'm assuming linking into one of the side flashers?

Now that fitment is perfect and the lights are setup I may be lucky and have no further issues.

God these lights look good!

I reckon if Porsche used them as part of their own production of these cars they wouldn't have had as much negativity about these year models!

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Here in the states, you can go to advanced auto and pickup a triton brand flasher relay. I forget what number the Porsche uses. The relay is on the driver side above the dead pedal. You pull the old one out and put the new one in. It's literally a 30 sec. process. I'm not sure where it is on a RHD car.

chrome units on white
 

Just added today ... black would have been nice to go with smokes but I think chrome actually works better on lighter cars like white ...

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Will get some better pics of them running in the dark.

I think so as well. They look great!

BMAN, please post more pics! Like, at least a dozen :)
I photoshopped the chrome units onto my Glacier White Box, but didn't like the look. Must have been my photoshop work because I'm really liking your pic :)

Would be nice to see the whole car from different angles.
TIA

Will post some more pics but ....
 

... I appear to be having a few issues with the lights.

1. Condensation in the passenger light
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2. Eyebrow/Turn signal appear to be confused on drivers side. Eyebrow lights up with turn signal when activated.
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I'm speaking to proexhaust the ebay store to try and get this sorted. I'll keep the forum updated on the outcome.

From what I read so far, the condensation is a known problem and the fix is to reseal the light with silicone. The eyebrow/turn signal issue appears to be a faulty unit. :-(

I really hope the lights work out because they look really hot on the car.

BMAN,

Are you sure you have a good connection with the existing loom?

I know from personal experience when installing the lights in and out that it can dislodge the connector slightly resulting in intermittent lighting issues.

Try unhooking the coonector and then hook up with the light halfway in.

Just a thought.

Getee,

I found a LED flasher made by Narva. Will buy one and install this weekend. Hopefully any flashing issues will then settle down

I got mine in. HID 8k low beam. regular high beam and HID 6k fog's.
Probably one of the best esthetic mods you can do to the front. Car looks way more modern.
Couple tips. Do not try to put the lights in without putting the back cap on the low beams. The headlights will flex and the top of projector portion rubbed on the inside of the headlight cover....grrr.
I had to flex the tap where it locks in as mine would not seat. I even took the headlight tray out to confirm why it wasn't seating. I used a pair of plier and massaged it a little and all is well.
It looks freakin awesome.

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How did you fit the ballasts for the low beams?

Black on blue looks awesome btw

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Black lights on the Blue looks awesome..:cool:

Buy a H1 HID kit. Ebay has em for 27 shipped. (seriously they are all pretty much the same and the 150+ kit which i also have). The red goes into the connecter on the headlights. The black connector I attached to the screw that holds down the headlight tray as ground. It's at the very far back end(gold color screw)

Hm. If you could take a picture, that'd be nice. I have HID kits in my non-projector headlights, and I just fit the ballast into the compartment (I just stuff it in there) and it fits quite nicely.

What I meant to ask was the fog lights. How did you fit the ballasts for the fog lights?

I think I took them out over 10 times now to adjust beam height....sorry I didn't take any pictures.
The ballasts for both are outside the compartment. They are attached/tied down on the outside. Reason why I have them outside is the temp. Pull the headlights out after 10 min. They get really hot. I'd hate to leave the ballasts in such a hot environment just in case. I basically have a big hole in the back of low beam and fog light back caps are left out. I doubt water will get in there and by leaving them exposed, I'm sure it'll let the heat out.

So you basically just zip-tied the ballasts down to the frame of the car behind the light housing?

The outside of the housing on the back and on the fender side, there is a lot of space.
I used doubleside tape to attach to back of housing, zip tie loose wire, and tape down over the ballast. Duck tape(your choice of color/design) works the best and holds well even with heat.

Adjusted the lights and took them for a ride down a dark road, light is awesome.
Talked with geetee on the phone, seems these housings have a serious tight fit when clamping them down with the wrench.
Seems there is a little tolerance issue with these lights.

I think the DRL looks the best going down the road, and the turn signals are really impressive.
All that taking them in and out, I forgot to get my Flash2Pass back in..
Left it in the old light...

LED tail lights tomorrow..
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Wow! They do look nice. So do the white LED lights only come on when the parking lights are on or are they true drl and on all the time??

The are not on all the time, they come on with the parking lights.
They are the same sockets that the OEM lights are.

One thing I did notice.
The side marker light switch (Pull out turn left on the light switch) also lights he DRL white LED light.
Each side comes on with the side marker lights on each which one you select.
Not like I use that switch...

they all look great guys, thanks for all the pics and reviews. picking up a set early next year.

so to clarify, you guys are putting HID kits in for the fogs, headlights and high beams? And there's definately enough room for 3x ballasts behind each headlight housing?

Thanks

SoK:
Each light requires (2) H1 bulbs and (1) H7.
You can reuse your H7 out of the old light if not going the HID route.
geetee elected to do HID kits on his.

I went with Sylvania SilverStar H1 4000K bulbs for both the high & low beams, and just reused the H7.

I may go HID later, but they are pretty bright now and a great distance ahead of the car. Combined with the H7 fog light they light up the road big time..

Hope that helps
T

I have HID's in my headlights now, just need to find some good LED's or something bright and white for the fogs and i'm OK with using the same old h7's in my brights, i don't use them very often.

Just ordered mine :D