ford99, your explorer headlights look excellent just like stock!
I hope you can show us all how to do that on the Transit van/wagon once you've purchased yours!
ford99, your explorer headlights look excellent just like stock!Another option is to retrofit the factory headlight housing with a proper HID projector with a Bi-xenon light.
I did this on my 1996 explorer with great success. It looked great and added a huge upgrade in lighting performance over the factory halogen lights. Using proper projectors gives that nice cutoff line like any factory HID lighting. I purchased the parts from https://www.theretrofitsource.com/complete-retrofit-kits.html
Basically you bake the complete light housing in the oven. Seperate the clear front lense from the rest of the housing. Then install the projector and shroud. Then put it all back. The wiring is no different from any other HID kit which is simple.
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I don't have a transit yet but that is the route I was thinking of going unless plug and play LED bulbs are easier/better/cheaper. I haven't researched those yet.
Spudz,Don't forget to get resistors! You need to wire in resistors to simulate the current draw of a halogen bulb.