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Has anyone noticed the HB3 and HB4 castings into our bottom of the lenses in our headlight assemblies? The outer edge of each headlight assembly says HB4 (9006 bulbs) and around the middle of the lens is the HB3 lettering (for the 9005 bulb)
True OEM projector HID systems have "HID" cast into the lenses instead. A really savvy (and anal) law enforcement could make a case for their removal from our cars, as the lenses reveal the legal bulbs. We just can't say "This is how they came"
Here are some extreme close-up photos of these markings. The slight amount of "grainy-snowy" stuff on the inside of the lenses is the disintegration of the edges of the projector lens from friction and vibration inside the housing where they are mounted.
I may buy a NEW set of headlights. I would then take the current headlight assemblies apart (using the oven method), mark the position of the projector lenses and take them out of the housing. vacuum and clean all of the debris thoroughly from the housing and then re-bed the lenses, using a bead of silicone around the edges to seal and cushion the lenses from vibration, eliminating this problem in the future.
Or I may hold off as my sister is going to Germany in March for two weeks on business. If she can score a used or new set of glass headlights, I would still take them apart and put the glass lenses on the US housings (to keep our bulb configuration and the fog lights)
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1996 Polo Green LSi #216 ..138,100 miles. ..SOLD
JFICX8659TH100216.....Date of Manufacture: November 16, 1995.....
Fuji Heavy Industries..Ōta North Plant....Ōta City,. Gunma Prefecture, Japan
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Last edited by svxcess; 12-14-2007 at 10:12 PM.
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