With this headlites "black out" discussion you guys have had, from the pix i'm amazed at your passing judgement.
while the difference between the chrome(the 96-98 civic) and the 98 spec CTR headlites, i must admit is almost hard to tell even in real - the smoked effect is actually so minimal and most of the time, when you do see the 96-98 headlites in a so called smoke obvious situation is because the photographer is creating that effect from a way of location/poor lighting/etc.
if you need to know and have yet to know this, the obvious smoked look of the ek headlites only existed clearly on the 99spec CTR.
having said that i'm just amazed at how you guys can tell/see so much from just a pix.
on the the other hand if you claimed that the pix posted by EK9 shows that it is not the EK9 headlites because of the existence of the headlite bulb reflector, the argument is somewhat valid than a passing judgement - try to at least show that you know what you are talking about.
so do u see the reflector in that pix? i'm sure you'd find the answer within.
and finally, an ek owner can always remove the headlight reflector, which i have mentioned prior and in essense it would almost look like the 98 spec CTR headlites - making doubly hard to see the difference esp from a pix or sometime in real and up close- that unless you are viewing in good lighting under the sun.
anyhow, this is not abt who knows what or who has a bigger ego, i just want to try pass out the right info rather than a passing claim. pix can be deceiving, but you just need to know what to look out for ;)
