CALLING ALL 2003 - 2005 OWNERS who want better lighting...

[MoparBob]

I'm calling on my fellow 3rd Gen brothers and sisters to help me out if someone would...

I am assisting someone (I won't say who just yet) who is in the business of designing and manufacturing much improved headlamps for vehicles. Through offering to help, I have been able to convince them to design some better headlights for our trucks. This company is working on its DOT certification (and TUV certification), has been in business a while, and has a good track record so the end product will be designed and manufactered to high standards.

What I need is for someone to do us a big favor (as I am overseas and won't get to my truck for a while yet) by taking some pictures of the headlight housing on a 2003 to 2005 CTD. I need pictures of the housing installed on the truck with a ruler (in cm please) showing dimension and clearances and pictures of the housing and ruler removed also. Any other measurements that would help him get started with a plan of attack would also be greatly appreciated (such as clearance between the housing and the closest componentry behind the housing while installed, etc). I would do this myself, but my R&R time at home was delayed and the pictures I told him I would get are now also delayed (not to mention the more important headlights I was going to loan him). If anybody has the time to do this (or maybe already have pics like these), I would be very grateful.

Just to be up front about things...I am not being paid nor will I profit from this venture. I simply want better headlights and I haven't found anything currently on the market that is DOT legal or what I am looking for. I believe that the end product will be of very high quality, somewhat expensive (hopefully not too bad, but you get what you pay for), and hopefully aesthetically pleasing (though I believe that will be the biggest challenge). As soon as I get more information about the product, I will pass it along to the TDR community and let you know how it works. Who knows, my helping out will hopefully benefit all of us in some way...at least all of us with stock lighting looking for an upgrade!