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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
Not related to bulbs... But, I had the misfortune to have to replace one of my headlight lenses. The new one was way brighter and I couldn't figure it out as I'd put the original bulb back in. Although they didn't look it, the old lenses were dirty.
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This is the real trick. 5 steps:
1) I took my H4 housing apart completely and washed/scrubbed/polished everything inside and out (lens, reflector, everything). Lightly grease the long screws and run them back and forth a bit through the threaded supports, replace the busted out rubber isolation mounts with small pieces of silicone vacuum hose
2) Put ceramic sockets on the wiring harness
3) 80/100 bulbs
4) Relays
5) Proper alignment
My alignment was WAY off, what I *thought* were the sharp angled cutoff thingies being projected on my garage door were actually reflections from somewhere else. If you take the housing out of the bucket, you can rough align it so that this surface:
Is vertical. If that is vertical when you mount the housing, then the light will be 95% aligned or better.
After that, my lighting is literally twice as good if not better. It was miraculous.