When I put my HID kit in awhile back, I had to cut away at the black rubber gasket/cover that goes on the back of the headlight. Now that I removed the HID kit (personal preferences) and am back to normal halogens, I’m a little concerned about getting moisture in the headlight housing since I had to cut a little of that cover away.

Does anyone have a picture of this rubber cover or even know what I’m talking about? Lol. I’d like to buy a set of them to ease my mind, but I have a feeling the Honda dealer is going to charge my a decent amount of $$$$ for them. Anyone know of a site that offers the Honda parts diagrams for our cars that I could look at and price one?

**EDIT**
Ok this is the seal I'm talking about. I only cut off the outer ring as per the HID install How-to and mine resemble these seals and are cut in a similar way. Should I be concerned with moisture getting into the housing? Just a side note, when I replaced the bulbs the other day (one burned out) there wasn't any moisture or water in that area. Was dry as a bone behind the headlight.

Part #10 in this picture.

 

Honda part # 33126-SCK-003
Bernardiparts.com has them for 7.06 a piece, plus shipping
Collegehillshonda.com has them for $7.53 a piece, plus shipping.

 

SCORE. Thanks...I forgot about Collegehillshonda.com lol

 

Do you think I should be concerned with moisture or would replacing these be a waste?

 

I didn't have any moisture trouble, but oddly enough after cutting the shrouds and taking roadtrips I often find a beetle or two that somehow got into the headlight and died. They're a pain to get out depending where they end up. Not sure if anyone has had this trouble. But other than that, it's moisture-tight as far as I can tell.

 

FYI.
For those installing hids you don't need to cut a hole that big in the rubber gasket to fit hid bulbs. Just cut a small hole enough to push the hid bulb thru. This way you still maintain a somewhat air tight seal around the hid plastic plug.

 

Called my old work buddy at the Honda garage and got them for $8.00 a piece, free shipping. Thanks for all the input guys. Very much appreciated.

 

If you don't mind my asking, what prompted you to go back to halogens?

 

I'm fairly certain that if you run a bi-xenon bulb, because the bulb unit itself is larger than the OEM halogen or a low only xenon bulb, you do have to cut the hole to fit. I'm not sure how else it'd work, and if you look at the photo above, you'll see how the bulb unit is larger (the big black box sticking out through the rubber seal. But I could be wrong.

 

You are totally correct. You must cut at least one ring off to get the bi-xenon bulb to go around the gasket.

Oh and to the OP, i'd just order some new ones from honda cuz they are so cheap. Have that piece of mind, ya know.

 

I know the xenith "bi"-xenon hid bulbs are two piece and the glare shield portion around the bulb can twist-off to allow the hid bulb to easily pass thru the gasket hole cover with very little trimming.

Maybe this feature is unique to only xenith bi-xenon bulbs?

Anyways, here is a link to a pic of a xenith hid bulb to show what i mean.
Scroll down a little to see.

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/merc...ywhere-us.html

 

I run HID's in my Ranger and the light output is pretty good and pretty level for a bulb that really doesn't belong in a halogen housing. When I put HID's in my Fit, I got a REALLY strange light pattern. I mean I know there's going to be some glare, but I was shooting light all over the place. The HID kit I had was an Oracle kit and was a single beam kit but had the little metal reflectors on one side of the bulb. Maybe that was the problem? At any rate, I know I had to be blinding oncoming traffic. Maybe it's the shape of the headlight housing that was causing the light to refract everywhere...I dunno for sure, but I wasn't really happy with the output I was getting.
Fortunately, the quad takes the exact same bulb as the Fit. SCORE! So I put them in there....They're AWESOME in the woods lol It's like daytime.