New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

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New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby TooMuchControl » Sat Sep 21, 2024 3:09 pm

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176508322756?

These will not last long on Ebay I would imagine as they would fit the Frontier as well.

I do not see these on the VIPMOTOZ website as yet, but there is almost no market upgrade that I've seen for years, up until now.

It's even has a greeting flash and sequential turn signal LED.


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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby palmerwmd » Fri Sep 27, 2024 2:09 pm

This looks really nice, especially for the price!

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby TooMuchControl » Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:09 am

Sold out. Hopefully (it were) some folks on here that took advantage.

They are selling for over $500+ now (~300 prior). Look like the put out feelers they were grabbed up.

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby ShipFixer » Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:06 pm

I see plenty of other listings for the same thing at around $300. If I hadn't have already gone with HIDprojectors.com I'd be jumping on this.

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby TooMuchControl » Sun Oct 06, 2024 6:45 pm

ShipFixer wrote:
Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:06 pm
I see plenty of other listings for the same thing at around $300. If I hadn't have already gone with HIDprojectors.com I'd be jumping on this.
I sent you a PM on this! Thank you!

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby ShipFixer » Sat Oct 19, 2024 11:15 pm

Went back and looked and didn't see any more, but I think it was the usual thing. Same unit, different sellers.

That being said, now that I look closer, these aren't LED projectors, they are projectors for halogen bulbs. So probably a little better than stock but not like the LED projectors I picked up.

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby TooMuchControl » Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:44 pm

They will come back, eventually.

I've hemmed and hawed and then decided to stay with what I have.
I've retrofitted mine to Philips Ultinon LED in similar housings and they are far better than Halogen and that's what I would have migrated over, should I have tried them.

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby palmerwmd » Fri Nov 15, 2024 12:36 am

ShipFixer wrote:
Sat Oct 19, 2024 11:15 pm
Went back and looked and didn't see any more, but I think it was the usual thing. Same unit, different sellers.

That being said, now that I look closer, these aren't LED projectors, they are projectors for halogen bulbs. So probably a little better than stock but not like the LED projectors I picked up.
So these are not LEDs after all??

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby TooMuchControl » Sun Nov 17, 2024 11:12 am

The lights are LED (C frame / sequential, etc).

The headlights comes standard as halogen.
I would imagine that has everything to do with being road legal, and making them compliant in the USA/Canada.

As far as I know, there are no road legal LED headlights (low or high beam) that are being sold for the R51.

You have to retrofit them, in all cases.

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby VStar650CL » Sun Nov 17, 2024 11:55 am

TooMuchControl wrote:
Sun Nov 17, 2024 11:12 am
As far as I know, there are no road legal LED headlights (low or high beam) that are being sold for the R51.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/us-head ... cture-law/
There aren't, but technically it's illegal to install anything but the OEM setup. Nobody enforces any of it unless you're a butthole running 10,000 lumen offroad lights for low beams and blinding everyone else on the road. Use common sense and don't get carried away. The aftermarket 55W H11 LED's in my wife's Altima are a huge improvement over the stock halogens simply because of the whiter light, but they don't blind anybody.

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Re: New R51 "C" Head Lights found 2005-2008

Postby TooMuchControl » Sun Nov 17, 2024 1:20 pm

Oh I agree. There are alot of reasonable products that perform excellent.

The biggest issue are the dum-dums putting LED in reflector headlamps causing Boeing 747 landings as you approach them on the highway.


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