my stock headlights are beat... i have custom vinyl surrounds on them to hide most of the weathering and checking of the borders, but they still look used and abused. Now with the brand new grille and all the clears up front, the old headlights really stand out, in a bad way.
As I see it, I have 5 options...
but quickly let me give you all the info about my current lights... They are factory HIDs with headlamp washers that pop out from the lights to rinse off the lights. These lights came standard on the V series CTSs and optional on a few regular CTSs.
Option 1....
Buy brand new CTS-V series replacement lights from GM, but at a cost of around 2,600 for the pair, and i could sell my old ones for about 300 each. So thats still 2,000 bucks out of my pocket.... I dont like this option personally.
-cost= 2,600 (and sell old lights for 300 each)
Option 2...
Buy aftermarket replacement lights for a base CTS and give up the washers and install an aftermarket HID setup in the projectors.
-cost= 350 (and sell old lights for 300 each)
Option 3...
Buy aftermarket base CTS lights, BUT modify them in order to accept the washer system AND the projector units from my current lights so factory HIDs are still intact. No selling of the old lights would be available.
-cost= 300
Option 4...
Buy CHROME base CTS lights and modify them as stated above to reuse washers AND factory HIDs. This would give the car a slightly different look, but keep in mind almost all the other Cadillac cars, from 2005 to now have chrome inner housings.
-cost= 300
Option 5...
Buy aftermarket base CTS lights and REMOVE the lenses from them and swap the lense onto the original lights. Only mod would be to cut out the section where the washer pops out. HOWEVER, this idea has been brought up on the CTS forums and has been tried, NO ONE has been able to do it successfully. So i may waste 300 on the new lights and ruin my original lights.
cost= 300
and btw, buying used good condition Vseries lights is NOT an option... they want 500-900 each for a nice light and most will start weathering very soon.