So I have seen pics of other people's car's with the 1st and 3rd gen projectors on it. All of them look great, the projectors actually look "black" instead of "grey/smokey" like mine do. I have the 2nd gen and my lenses already have stress cracks in them so I am wondering if these just came with really cheap lenses? It seems like everyone with the 1st or 3rd gen haven't had any problems other than clear coat peeling and I have yet to see anyones projectors that look smokey (not smoked like taillights, but like a grey smokey kinda color, sort of look like they have moisture in them but they dont)..

Anyone had any similar problems?

Here is the best pic I could find of my car that shows what I am talking about... Its not the sun either. They're actually worse than they look in the photo.


Here's the normal "black" look I was going for when I bought these: (pic thanks to hungryhip-ccp, hope u dont mind bro)

 

your car is slow

 

I know

Tupperware > me

 

Do you have a bigger pic of the first one?

 

best i could do. but you get the idea. looks the same if your further away as it does this close:

 

well you got option B, so the same thing applies to the lites i think. Need a cooling fan at the bottom of the housing...the fixed Corvette aftermarket lites for C5 had such a cooling fan i have no experience with these lites but discolored lens is a sure sign of heat best of luck

 

my 1st gens lens melted, i think to have a nice lens you might need to transplant the stock lens to the projectors.

 

mine are pealing...or whatever. its like the clear coat is coming off