In December of 2006 I bought a set of Matrix projector headlights, and by the time I got around to hooking them up I found out that everything other than the high/low beam was dead on arrival. No halo's, no led's no nothing, so I couldn't return them so I threw them in the closet for two years. Finally got tired of them sitting around, so I decided to tear them down to see what was wrong with them. Here is a picture of what they looked like before I tore into them:


I used a hair dryer to get the headlight apart, it only took about 10 minutes per headlight no oven for this girl! This is a picture of the chrome and clear plastic cover of the headlight, the black and red wires coming out are for the halo's.


Here's what the inside of the headlights look like, not much there really other than the projector and the high beam reflector.


This is a picture of the dual H1 bulbs that the headlight uses, they were horrible light output so I decided to take them out and replace them with something better.


This is a picture of the low beam wiring which came with the headlights, the end of the wire including the boot was fried which had caused the passenger side bulb to intermittently cut out from time to time. Keep in mind these were the stock bulbs too, no fancy upgrades here any where!


Here is the chrome show piece removed from the clear cover, it was held in by 6 tiny screws.


This is a picture of the actual projector lense, I did try flipping this upside down to see what would happen. It made the headlight look like a flashlight beam, s I ended up putting it back in like I found it.


This is the headlight without all of it's parts, you can now see the reflector plate inside the low beam housing.


Here are the halo's, I had to remove 2 screws per halo to get them out.


They had two 1mm white LED's in originally, hooked to a 4007 diode and a 220ohms resistor and they were dull as hell!