Heads and tails

[Stubby]

Has anyone found either full projection headlight, or actual LED tail light kits yet for the Sonic?
I mean, not the crap HID mots for the regular housings, or the cheezy LED insert kits for the tails, but the actual gear.
They had both for the Aveo. I really want to upgrade these items, but haven't been able to find actual parts to do so.

 

[sbpphoenix]

Aftermarket takes a bit to catch up to demand.

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[Eric Smit]

Agreed.


-Eric Smit

 

[TheFallenAngel12]

Dont expect to see anything like tail lights, headlights and so forth Upgrades until at least Late Spring/Late Summer next year (2013). Most aftermarket companys wont even think about making a new part for a vehicle until it has been in full production at least 1 year. The reason is they want to make sure the vehicle is not a flop and has a strong enough sales Record in that 1st year before they start building new parts and concepts for the said vehicle. That way they dont just rush into building a mass amount of parts for a vehicle, then it flop and they dont get any return profit from the parts they produce. Expect New Better Setups in Mid to Late 2013. Maybe Late Spring.

I myself just want some better looking tail lights for my sonic sedan. the stock ones are ok. but i want some nicer LED tails. I actually liked the 08-above Tail Lights. those were nice. I would like to see a nice set of Clear LED Tails made up for the sedan's as i have a summit white Sonic and i think the Clears would blend nicely in with it.

Hope this helps you out. Sorry if its not what you wanted to hear!

 

[Stubby]

Nope, I wanted honesty, and that is what I got. I have been looking at the aftermarket gear, and they have nice headlight kits to convert to projectors, but it requires, what looks like to be a lot of work, not to mention, requiring to modify original housings, and honestly, not enough wrecked Sonics to get the used part, and with maybe 1 or 2 days off a week, not enough time to pull mine and do the conversions. And I definately don't want to put those hack HID kits in my car. I suppose I can use the LED bulbs for side markers and tails while waiting for the full kits to come out.
Bright side: No meal tastes better than when you are starving for food. They, I am sure will make these parts, and when they do, it will be sweeter after the wait.

 

[djinn]

Has anyone found either full projection headlight, or actual LED tail light kits yet for the Sonic?
I mean, not the crap HID mots for the regular housings, or the cheezy LED insert kits for the tails, but the actual gear.
They had both for the Aveo. I really want to upgrade these items, but haven't been able to find actual parts to do so.

I should be starting my HID retrofit for the headlamps come October (I decided to pay off debt first). Stay tuned and I'll probably end up offering it as a service if it's successful.

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[sbpphoenix]

I have this nagging feeling that a retrofit is going to look terrible.

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[djinn]

I have this nagging feeling that a retrofit is going to look terrible.

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I don't think it would look bad with the right shroud. Even if it doesn't look incredible, it's far safer than just dropping the arc capsules in the stock housing.

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[sbpphoenix]

If the housing wasn't round, I'd probably agree with you, but something about concentric circles on a car's front end is off-putting to me. Maybe if you found a large enough projector to keep the gap inside the housing minimal(like it was OEM), I'd like it.

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[djinn]

If the housing wasn't round, I'd probably agree with you, but something about concentric circles on a car's front end is off-putting to me. Maybe if you found a large enough projector to keep the gap inside the housing minimal(like it was OEM), I'd like it.

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They do also have shrouds with lines that'll match with the ridges on the lamps. Or I could fab a pair that are like reverse shrouds:

0>* where zero is the housing and star is the projector so it fills in the gaps without adding another ring on the front.

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