Possible NEW OEM Replacement lights?

[mistermaclincoln]

Can you still purchase new lens? No Limit how much did you pay for your? I need new lens so if anyone has any I PM me with pictures. Lets talk.

 

[WebVette]

So all you're trying to do is get a guy to rechrome the housings? Then you're still left with the sh*tty halogens lense (for those of you with halogens housings). If someone were to make a reproducion headlight many would be on board since all you have to do is click a button and wait for them to show up in the mail..but what you're talking about doing would require everyone to seperate the lense from the back which is not very easy..and most people on here wouldn't want to go through the hassle when the end product is just a halogen headlight. Now if this guy could make a clear lense on top of rechroming your original housing and assemble it all and ship it back then it wouldn't be a bad deal. Otherwise anyone could go to a local plating company and pay to have them redone...but rechroming isn't cheap.

OK, so in response to these statements:

Here's the deal.. Recreating these lights is expensive, and, unless you're an autocad auto designer, probably illegal if all you are doing is copying the part by making new molds from an original Ford part. Engineering injection molds is expensive, and that's why this thread died in the first place. (I should have started a new one, in retrospect. Hell, maybe I should have started this on LOD instead...)

Anyway, gen 1 guys have been using chrome bright strips, etc. etc. for forever now and I just thought that another approach might be feasible, if more guys were interested in it. A new rechroming is going to be a hell of a lot better than chrome bright strips. Disassembling the housing isn't rocket science, and if it IS rocket science for someone, maybe they shouldn't own a Mark. Believe me, from what I found out today, rechroming is a hell of a lot cheaper than a new housing, and since I have 3 of these cars, I really don't feel like dropping over a grand on new headlights. Keatonsdad has worked miracles on the lenses in my 3 cars, so now all I have to do is fix the reflector.

So, here's the bottom line- Newly created housings are apparently a lost cause. If you don't want "****ty" halogen housings, then don't jump on board with those who don't mind the housings they have. It's just that simple.

Once again, I wish I hadn't said anything until I had a plan in place. I deal with loads of bitching at work. I hate having it in my hobby.......

 

[NoLimit95]

Can you still purchase new lens? No Limit how much did you pay for your? I need new lens so if anyone has any I PM me with pictures. Lets talk.

$227 each + shipping in 2010 and I don't think they'll be easy to find now but I'm sure it's still possible. They're going to cost a lot more though. Check [url]http://www.tascaparts.com/partlocator/index.cfm?siteid=213668[/URL]

You might have to email for price! NVM that link, looks like they dropped the Mark VIII completely.

 

[keVIIIn]

OK, so in response to these statements:

Here's the deal.. Recreating these lights is expensive, and, unless you're an autocad auto designer, probably illegal if all you are doing is copying the part by making new molds from an original Ford part. Engineering injection molds is expensive, and that's why this thread died in the first place. (I should have started a new one, in retrospect. Hell, maybe I should have started this on LOD instead...)

Anyway, gen 1 guys have been using chrome bright strips, etc. etc. for forever now and I just thought that another approach might be feasible, if more guys were interested in it. A new rechroming is going to be a hell of a lot better than chrome bright strips. Disassembling the housing isn't rocket science, and if it IS rocket science for someone, maybe they shouldn't own a Mark. Believe me, from what I found out today, rechroming is a hell of a lot cheaper than a new housing, and since I have 3 of these cars, I really don't feel like dropping over a grand on new headlights. Keatonsdad has worked miracles on the lenses in my 3 cars, so now all I have to do is fix the reflector.

So, here's the bottom line- Newly created housings are apparently a lost cause. If you don't want "****ty" halogen housings, then don't jump on board with those who don't mind the housings they have. It's just that simple.

Once again, I wish I hadn't said anything until I had a plan in place. I deal with loads of bitching at work. I hate having it in my hobby.......

I'm not bitching..all I'm saying is anyone can get their housings rechromed so long as there is a plating place around them that'll do it, what's the point in shipping a set of lights out to where ever this guy is located, paying his fee and then paying to have them shipped back..and in the end you're left with a stock halogen housing..everyone always says how the 1st gens look dated..and these 80s looking lenses don't help it, just my opinion but id rather have clear lenses.

 

[JDS353]

the lights on these cars are a stickey wicket. 94m5 and i have had 8 different marks. we have used the oven at 250 degrees to seperate the lens used a heat gun. we have sanded the inside of haglon lens to clear them up. used havc duct tape polished to replate the inside. as for finding new lens i would say that we are SOL . as with restoreing older cars we are going to have to do our best with what is handy. use our heads(brains) to get the job done. i know of one person who had six sets of gen ii complete headlights but won't put him on the spot . some mark parts are still avialable but they like all older things become obsolete. always check when an older garage is under going an auction and older savalage yards (junk yard), these too are getting harder to find with the price of scrap metal so high. better get off the milk box JD

 

[NoLimit95]

I'm not bitching..all I'm saying is anyone can get their housings rechromed so long as there is a plating place around them that'll do it, what's the point in shipping a set of lights out to where ever this guy is located, paying his fee and then paying to have them shipped back..and in the end you're left with a stock halogen housing..everyone always says how the 1st gens look dated..and these 80s looking lenses don't help it, just my opinion but id rather have clear lenses.

I'm just the opposite lol. I thought I wanted clear lenses but I was wrong. As for looking dated, I agree with that if the lens really is dated but when they look new or are new, they match the corner lenses a lot better. I had my HID lenses in for less than a month I think and the more I looked at them, the more I wanted them out. I have close to $400 into something I don't even want now. That could buy me a nice exhaust or something and I'll have good light at night with matching corner and headlight housings because all 4 of them are the same age. Lincoln should have designed clear corners for the HID headlights. See how they paid attention to detail with Gen 2's?

 

[PenGun]

I just bit the bullet for a set of HID lights, one of the last sets sold. Maybe 5000 miles use on em'.

A lot of money but I decided it is worth it.