I've done a TON of research on the headlight issue, and most forums are outdated. I just found this site tonight and am extremely excited to run across an active Mark Viii forum.
I recently was given a '93 Mark Viii by my brother, who took pretty good care of it. The headlights are an obvious issue but I rarely drive at night. With the time change coming up, I'm pretty much forced to immediately take action against the horrid lighting as I'll be driving home from work when it's dark. I've looked up several solutions, including taking apart the assembly or replacing the lights with the '96 LSC HID kits....I'm not completely comfortable, nor have a seen a clearly laid out guide on manually cleaning the lenses or I'd take that route. As for the kits, it's impossible to find and when you can (I found some on e-bay) they're like $199 per side, not including the ballasts. I just can't afford that right now.
The "solution" I'm looking at is replacing the bulbs with SilverStar Ultra lights. Is this a viable band-aid solution or will the enhanced brightness just be washed out because of the lenses?
I've also searched and have been unable to find a guide for cleaning them internally but if there is one, could someone link it for me?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
I recently was given a '93 Mark Viii by my brother, who took pretty good care of it. The headlights are an obvious issue but I rarely drive at night. With the time change coming up, I'm pretty much forced to immediately take action against the horrid lighting as I'll be driving home from work when it's dark. I've looked up several solutions, including taking apart the assembly or replacing the lights with the '96 LSC HID kits....I'm not completely comfortable, nor have a seen a clearly laid out guide on manually cleaning the lenses or I'd take that route. As for the kits, it's impossible to find and when you can (I found some on e-bay) they're like $199 per side, not including the ballasts. I just can't afford that right now.
The "solution" I'm looking at is replacing the bulbs with SilverStar Ultra lights. Is this a viable band-aid solution or will the enhanced brightness just be washed out because of the lenses?
I've also searched and have been unable to find a guide for cleaning them internally but if there is one, could someone link it for me?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.