I read somewhere, I believe it was the erebuni website, that installing the japanese spec headlights required modification to the housing.
Just a thought before you dive into this project.

 

Well ima do the mod myself as in taking off the headlight and painting it and all

 

You don't need Jspec to get the black headlights for the P5 they are on Canadian models as of 03.

 

damn too bad im in florida. Thats a bit far So if it isnt jspec then what is it canspec?

 

Those look incredible. I might have to order some soon.
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The 2003 Protege 5 , Protege and 2001+ Protege ES have black headlight inserts . They can be bought at Canadian dealers as OEM or in a junkyard if you can find one scraped. I seen a post ( headlights )on making US spec lights look like the Canadian spec ones.

 

Hey guys, those are NOT jdm lights. They are normal lights with either the reflector removed and painted black,or just opened up and painted black. This guy is not legit DO NOT BUY THESE POS lights. You can do the exact same thing he did yourself! The real jdm lights are dual beams, they are glass, beam pattern is different, and they have led that reflect on to the high beam reflector for the parking lights. Save your hard earned cash!!

There is two sets of jdm headlight pics here in this thread. Look at the difference.
http://www.promazda.com/showthread.p...highlight=leds

The 99 ones are the same, dual beam and led parking lights, But they are not black they are chrome!

 

Thanks alot for the info ghost.

BTW-- I looked on the promazda site to see the difference and I noticed you mentioned something about LED. Is that the little opening above the turn signal?

 

yea, the jdm ones dont use the turn signals for parking lights they use the led!

 

well, I don't know if that's JDM or not because I can't tell from the picture. But he has many other black housing headlights for sale at a time so I am sure that must be from somewhere instead of he made it by himself. Don't you think? That's what I think!

 

Good Luck!

 

i had jdm headlamps on my old civic for several months and never had any problems from law enforcement

 

Here's a couple of pics I took of the Canadian spec headlights aren't the US spec the same ?
03 Protege 5 headlight

01-02 Protege ES and 03 Protege

These are OEM units at our dealer.

 

No...

In Canada for 2002.5, sedans and Protege5's recieved the black inserts...America only recieved them for the sedans...

 

My next door neighbor just got a 2003 pro dx and his have the black housing. Ima try to swap mine with his later.