Back to the body shop!

[fordssuck]

Well after looking at my car over the weekend, i have realized that they did not complete everything that is on the order, i still have some chips that i told rob i wanted touched up, and were did my intercooler sprayers go??? They just disconnected them and wraped the line around the airfilter??? WTF, I was taking my hood vents off today so i could strip them, and i couldnt figure out how they attached them, i pulled a little bit and it popped right off, looks like they used some sort of caulk or really gooey double sided tape, it took me a while to clean off from the underside of my hood. The passenger side high beam has a different colored bulb in it that gives it a purple/blue ish tint that dosent match the drivers side. Ill be calling them tomarrow, this wasnt stuff that i had taken off the list to make the price/rebate cheaper either. Just stuff that has seemed to be forgoten or poorly installed. I pulled up to my garage door last night and my original drivers side headlamp seems very bright white with a hint of blue but the headlamp that was just replaced seems to have atleast 4x more blue in it, im guessing it is that was because it is almost new, but still is kinda wierd driving with the amount of blue it produces only on one side...

Ohh well......

[austinj06]

Thats sucks........

[VPT]

Rob at scaffidis?

[fordssuck]

yep

[VPT]

lol they do great jobs there.

[fordssuck]

They did a good job except for the vent but they forgot some stuff.

[EVILUTION]

That sucks. Did you pay for it already? If not just hold out on payment until its done right.

[fordssuck]

I picked it up assuming that the vent was installed correctly it looked like it was at first minus the caulk, I am completely missing my Intercooler sprayers, were did they go? They said they had to send the bumper into mitsu for some study or something, My lower grill went missing after the snowbank and the squirters are connected to it, they put in a new lower grille, but no squirters, my guess as the guy just thought that the line just went to the hood squirters, regardless it was not completely finished so i will call tomarrow, I am also going to try to get a different highbeam bulb that matches, and get a few chips touched up or atleast get some touch up paint from them. I know that i can fix most of this stuff for less then $20 myself due to me having the bulb and an extra set of sprayers that i purchased for my lightning but never installed, the little clips that hold on the vent cant be more the $5.

[devlish]

if those are HID bulbs it could be that they got a different temparature and that's why you are getting a different color. if they are nonHID, probably just new vs old bulb.

[fordssuck]

They are both HID and they are the same voltage, passenger headlamp came of an 03 evo that was wrecked within the first year. Mabey it is more blue because it hasnt been used as much.

[devlish]

same voltage sure. but are they the same temp bulbs?? the temp of the bulb is what give it its color.

[fordssuck]

I dont think mitsu would change bulb temps halfway through 03 or at all in there HID's

[devlish]

doubtful that mitsu would change bulbs. correct.

however, now that both of these are no longer the same headlight housing that came on the car... there is a possibility that someone along the line changed the bulb itself. ever think of that possibility??? they aren't sealed beams anymore... you can buy bulbs seperately these days. have you pulled both bulbs and looked at the temp rating on them?? or just go get two new bulbs of the same temp if it is bugging you.
http://www.xtralights.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=5&gclid=CMHk8O-Q3pECFScdOAodfXGifQ

[fordssuck]

You would be correct, but there is no way of taking the bulb out without baking the housing with the bulb still in it, I inspected both headlamps and there were no pry marks or signs of a new epoxy holding them together, You actually have to bake the actual light bulb inside the case to remove it.

[TomKat]

Yeah I doubt anybody would change a HID bulb in an EVO. Huge job - the bumper cover has to come off just to get to the heating part.

HID's will get brighter as they get more use. I bet the new light just needs some breaking in.

[fordssuck]

Well i hope one day it matches the other light.

[VPT]

Unplug the brighter one fore awhile so the other one can catch up. :P

[fordssuck]

well rob ordered the parts today, and ill be getting some more work done to the car, painting and such. He really helped me out.