New here - headlight question

YellowandGreen

I figured maybe I should post an intro. My name is Amy and I live in Waldorf, MD. I have 3 mustangs now - 98 silver gt conv, 90 7up that needs lots of work and I just picked up a 93 yellow and black feature car over the weekend. I am thrilled with it. It's not perfect but the important parts are there. I do want to replace the headlights. One has almost an inch of water in it from our trip back from PA. I see that several places such as blue oval industries sell ford headlights with other marker and parking lights. What has everyone else done? Or I could just replace the headlights and leave the parking and marker light.

Rare_92

Hi Amy, welcome to TWF!!

Yeah, I haven't replaced mine yet, But if your going to have it all apart I guess you could just do it all. I can't stand fixing somethin twice! But its really up to you, if you have the extra time and money, go for it!

Ryan
Rare_92

YellowandGreen

Thanks Ryan!!

I was not sure if I should make sure I buy everything Ford or not. I was looking at the car last night and the parking light has ford on it along with the headlight but the side marker does not. I think for now I am just going to replace the headlights and see how that looks. Luckily my husband is an auto mechanic. I have all kinds of projects lined up for him.

white6468

Your question is very timely as that I just received my replacement Head, Turn and Park lights. I have one that has a crack in it from a stone that was kicked-up on the road. I decided to order the 6 light “Kit” as that it was less expensive than purchasing all 6 pieces individually.

I figured I would just replace the damaged unit and save the rest for later use (if needed) as that my car has relatively low mikes (50K+/-) and is stored in a garage.

I ordered a set that contained original Ford head lights and reproduction side/park lights as that the Ford head lights were only abt. $15 more than reproduction units. The side/park lights were extremely more expensive.

Now for the interesting part. I just unwrapped the headlights and compared them to my original lights and say that what I thought were good original head lights are actually quite yellowed. I checked the replacement side and park lights and found that they too were yellowed compared to the replacement units.

Based on my experience I would recommend replacing all 6 units rather than risk having a set of 6 lights with the newer unit sticking out because it is in better condition. However this is just my opinion.

Good luck with your new toy!

Kevin

YellowandGreen

You make an excellent point Kevin. My husband was worried about the exact same thing. I think we might try to clean the parking and marker lenses and see what they look like. Otherwise I might be replacing those too.