Can't See? Change Your Headlights!

Jeep Headlights are notoriously horrible in the 93-98 Grand Cherokees. The beam pattern developed has a terrible spread and the light output is minimal. You can do one thing though to help yourself out! Recently, I decided that my fogged up headlight was too much and I went to price new OEM headlights from the dealer and well, it was just too expensive to pay $90 for a single light and I also needed a new passenger side turn signal housing. I went and did some research and decided the Ebay ones would suffice. I took an economical standpoint to this, if they are cheaper and would fog after 4 years instead of 8 years like the OEM headlights and at $40, well, I could supply myself for the next almost 16 years with Ebay headlights and still spend double for OEM in the long rong. Here is my result!

Not only does it give the jeep a newer look (my opinion) but it helped out regaining some of my lighting back while driving on the backroads at night here in Pennsylvania. Do not forget, Jeep lighting is terrible so even though it helped me, my lighting is still not that great. However, I have added a few comparison pictures to give you an idea of what the fogged light looks like against the new light.

Yes, the drivers side doesn't look as fogged as the passengers because it is newer, the passenger side came with the Jeep 12 years ago.

In order to change the housings, it was not at all bad, very easy so that even a novice can do it. My procedure:

1) Remove headlight bulb (I bet someone would leave it in and accidently pull the wires out)

2) Remove front grille (There are 4 screws, two at the very top and two inside the slots)

3) Remove corner marker (One screw at the top and you will need a long skinny torx-driver and remove the screw between the side marker and turn signal housing)

4) Now you will need some force and just pull as hard as you can to remove the headlight, it is held in by 3 balls and its very tight.

5) There is one ball clip that is on the aftermarket unit that doesn't like the ball. My way around this was that I was never using the old headlights so I broke the area holding the clip on the old unit and broke the actual clip on the new unit and replaced that way. It is very difficult to get them out otherwise without breaking stuff.

6) Install, it will take some pounding with your fist but you'll know when they are locked in.

7) Reinstall all surround light housings, bulbs, and grille

8) Reaim

Note:

Do this where you can shine your lights on a wall with your old lights and mark where you get your highest intensities this way you can properly reaim your headlights after you install your new housings.

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