I've been working nights more lately and noticed, as my wife puts it, that my stuck headlights suck. Is there a better lens that I can put on the car? I do not want to convert to HIDs or LEDs. I just was hoping to find a better lens or brighter standard bulb that could help. It just seems like the light just disperses quickly even on high beam. It's a '91 OCC with factory headlights and the old halogen sealed beams on our '90 OCC and '70 98 seem brighter. Thanks.

 

Have you polished the headlight lenses? You can get a kit at your local auto parts store with every thing you need to cut and polish the headlight lenses. This would be the first thing I do. In fact, I should do it on my 96 98.

 

Do a simple voltage drop test on the headlight circuit.

Get your voltmeter out, connect the positive probe of the meter to the positive post of the battery. Put the negative probe on the tan wire of the passenger side headlight, start the engine, let it idle, and turn on the headlights. Read the meter, whatever the meter reads is how much voltage your losing in the wiring. If it’s more than a couple tenths, it’s time to carefully inspect and clean the wiring. You could also do the same test with the high beams, move the negative meter probe to the passenger high beam green wire.

You could also wire relays to bypass the long factory wiring path. I wired relays into my car probably 15 years ago, it does make a big improvement.

 

I have polished the lenses in the past but it didn't make much of a difference.