04 4Runner - Headlight Options

I am working on my Project "Ole Silver" and the previous owner of this vehicle took off the OEM headlights and replaced them with some eBay cheapos (PO is a coworker and he threw away the OEM ones ). These eBay specials have pretty awful cutoff and light pattern, either I aim them down and not see anything past 20ft or I blind everyone... some plastic tabs are disintegrating and the drivers headlight barely holds the bulb in anymore.

The OEM headlights for the 04 seems to made out of gold on the used market, so I wanted to see if anyone has had any luck with any other headlight assemblies that are worth it. Would love it if they were the black painted (except the reflection part) lights but at this point just a good light pattern would be nice.

From the reading on this forum, the opinion is that the TYC branded lights are decent, before I drop some money on them figured I would ask for internet opinions

Thanks!

 

Have you checked this section: https://www.4runners.com/forums/4th-gen-4runner-parts-marketplace-2003-2009.77/ ?

 

Yeah, I PM'ed one seller that had them but the listing is from almost a year ago. I may post a WTB thread if this falls through. Thanks!

 

This thread just popped up!

https://www.4runners.com/threads/ma...amp-turn-signal-and-fog-light-housings.27423/

 

Yeah, that was me bumping it , thanks for looking out though. Sent a PM to the seller hopefully they see it even though they have not logged in to this site since Oct-23.

 

What’s your budget? I replaced mine with OEM ones a little while back. Think I paid about $450 for the pair through a local dealerships website. Point being is, if you were planning on spending $300 or something for some good aftermarket lights, I would suggest just saving up a little more and buying the bullet for OEM.