concorde lights

[Smitty]

any after market headlights with a little more horsepower for a 95 Concorde.
smitty
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[Steve]

any after market headlights with a little more horsepower for a 95 Concorde.
smitty

If you can get your hands on a set of headlamps AND MOUNTING BRACKETS
for a European-spec (right-side drive countries, not England) version of
the car, yes. You will have to modify the bracket so that you can
transfer the manual (screwdriver powered) vertical aim adjuster from the
US-spec bracket over to the E-code bracket because the E-code bracket is
made to be used with an electric lamp levelling motor. Also, you have to
file down (grind down, I should say) the mounting "ball" on the manual
leveller. And you have to do some clever wiring and put in relays to
carry the load.

Very doable if you're slightly mechanical, works great.... Costs about
$600 IF you can even get the parts or get someone to order them for you :-(

Worth it if you plan to keep the car for a while, though.

 

[Art]

You might want to compare your lenses with ones from a newer model at a
junkard. I know small improvements were made on the 94 LHS lenses.

 

[Daniel J. Stern]

If you can get your hands on a set of headlamps AND MOUNTING BRACKETS
for a European-spec (right-side drive countries, not England) version of
the car, yes.

Couple things here:

1) "Right hand drive" means the steering wheel's on the right side of the
car and the traffic proceeds along the left side of the road. Also called
"left traffic" or "left-hand rule of road" or "RHD" or "LHT".

"Left hand drive" means the steering wheel's on the left side of the car
and traffic proceeds along the right side of the road. Also called "right
traffic" or "right-hand rule of road" or "LHD" or "RHT".

In North America, as in Scandinavia and continental Europe and the Middle
East and Taiwan and Russia and Central and South America, we have LHD/RHT.

In the UK, Australia, Japan, parts of Africa, Hong Kong, New Zealand and a
few other places, they have RHD/LHT.

Believe it or not, there are wrong-side-of-road (RHD/LHT) headlamps made
for the '93-'97 Vision/Concorde; they actually sold RHD versions of the
car in Japan!

Very doable if you're slightly mechanical, works great.... Costs about
$600 IF you can even get the parts or get someone to order them for you
:-(

Occasionally I see parting-out auctions for Chrysler Visions on the German
Ebay site.

DS

 

[Daniel J. Stern]

any after market headlights with a little more horsepower for a 95
Concorde.

See Steve's response; I'm the one who set him up with the European-market
headlamps for his '93 Vision. It is an expensive swap but the lamps are
VASTLY better. There are all kinds of bulbs being advertised as
"upgrades"; the big majority of them are a total waste of money (PIAA,
Silverstar, Cool Blue, Lazerblue, and the rest of the blue-colored
garbage). The only bulb that makes the lamps work a tiny bit better is
something like a Sylvania Xtravision or a Philips High Visibility. It does
not turn these dreadful headlamps into good ones, just makes them a tiny
bit less bad.

DS

 

[Steve]

The only bulb that makes the lamps work a tiny bit better is
something like a Sylvania Xtravision or a Philips High Visibility. It does
not turn these dreadful headlamps into good ones, just makes them a tiny
bit less bad.

To add to that... I switched to Xtravision bulbs in the old lamps on my
(wife's) 93 before shelling out for the E-code upgrade. I could tell no
difference with the Xtravisions. Zip, zilch, nada. To be fair, her '93
still had the 93-style headlamps, not the improved 94-up models- so you
might see some tiny improvement with Xtravision bulbs.

You might also see an improvement just by putting relays in the system
and upgrading the wiring from the relays to the bulbs. The stock wiring
is pretty marginal for the load.

 

[Richard]

So you might see some tiny improvement with Xtravision bulbs.

As an aside, my friend drove up to my house the other day with a water
filled rectangular sealed beam on his Jeep. I picked up a set of Xtravision
sealed beams (now labeled "Performance"). They claim to be 3X brighter, and
from what we observed they might be right. Too bad Chrysler did not stick to
good old styled sealed beams; then we would have a fighting chance on decent
lighting.

Richard.