Hey,
I know this has been done, but I have a few twists that I am going to add to it.
So this has been a plan of mine since I bought my Jeep back in August. One thing I have found is that the factory single-bulb headlights leave a bit to be desired and do not light up the road well enough to make me comfortable at night. This seems particularly true on the freeway at 75mph where you really need to see far ahead of you so that you have time to avoid a disaster. I also do not like the loss of light close to the vehicle when you flip to your high beams. I am used to vehicles with separate lows and highs where the lows stay on with the highs creating a nice pattern from just in front of the car all the way down the road.
My first attempt at rectifying the situation was to perform the Foglight Mod which allows you keep the fogs on while the highs are on. I was pleasantly surprised with the results, the fog lights in this car are quite good(at least the '06) which is especially apparent when you have the high beams on/lows off and lose that short distance headlight. They make a decent low beam replacement.
While I was happy with the fog light mod results it does not effect to long range lighting. This is where the Bi-Xenons come in. For those that don't know what a Bi-Xenon is: The Bi-Xenon is to the projector lens you might find in most modern cars. Typically projectors are used as a low beams only(in conjunction with a separate halogen high beam) and have a very sharp cutoff to prevent the light from shinning up to high. This allows them the throw a very bright consistent low beam pattern without blinding oncoming drivers. Bi-Xenon's take this standard projector and add the ability to move this cutoff up out of the way when the high beams are activated. This creates and full beam pattern that functions as both high and low beams from a single light source. Most cars do not have Bi-Xenons although they are becoming more common from the factory now.
I went with this kit:
http://www.theretrofitsource.com/complete-retrofit-kits/bi-xenon-mini-stage-3-kit-d2s.html#.UxdW1PldV8E
Specifically:
Circular Lenses
55W XB35 4300K Bulbs
Mopar Specific 9007 Wiring Harness(Not listed there, you need to call and special order for our Jeeps)
Morimoto 5Five Ballasts
Bullet Shrouds- If you call you can get ones with factory defects for a $10 discount, I plan on painting mine so chipped paint or scratches are not a huge problem.
Based on what I had read around the interwebz, these projector are top notch. That combined with the 55W bulbs and ballasts should make for a phenomenal setup.
I also purchased some Ebay headlight for a grand total of $50 shipped so that I can keep my stock lights intact for inspection purposes. The ebay lights are not perfect, but since they are really only used to hold the projector in place and do not contribute to the lighting itself, they can be crappy. In my case I will be painting the reflector bowl to match the body color of my Jeep(Red). The key here is to use a matte or satin paint to prevent any light that escapes from the sides projector from reflecting out of the headlights.
I found this paint at HD and it matched my Jeeps body color surprisingly well:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum-Painter-s-Touch-2X-12-oz-Satin-Colonial-Red-General-Purpose-Spray-Paint-6-Pack-249082/202058672
The only issue I for see here is that it is not high temperature paint. HID's, especially the 55Wers, will put out a good amount of heat and many people recommend using a high temperature paint(gas grille paint for example). The problem with that is that the color selection is very limited, pretty much just chrome, matte black and firetruck red.
I found out that the threaded shaft which passes through the back of the reflector owl was quite a bit to big. I ended up dropping off the bowls at the machine shop to be properly bored so that I have a nice, flat mounting surface to bolt the projector to. This way I wont have to jump through hoops to get the light aligned once back in the jeep.
Update - 7/24/14
Well I finally got around to picking up my reflector bowls from the machine shop. They hogged out the hole in the back and made clearance for the projector:
The only issue i have is that lock nut which mounts the projector to the bowl doesn't have enough clearance to fully tighten down. 5 minutes with my dremel should fix that no problem:
The only problem I could potentially have is that the projector may be sticking out a little too far from the back of the bowl which MAY cause it to hit the lens of the headlight housing. I will check when i get home tonight. It could be a problem if this turns out to be true.
