Ticking indicators
Ticking indicators
One of the things that bugged me with my old V6 was the silent indicators. So today was get the old silent relay out and fit a “clicking” one. What a transformation, I'm sure Steve will be pleased as I used to forget to switch it off when he was behind me.
I also arourfended the nose ahead of Spa trip. Quite pleased with the result. I was quoted £1250 from polished bliss, so decided to buy a computer cut kit from eBay for £85, jobs a good-one. But took me way longer than I expected.
Final task was to try and sort out the candle headlights, I’ve fitted LED bulbs, ok I’ve fitted one bulb today. I want to see the difference between the original and the LED when it’s dark. I’ll take a picture if it’s any good.
All in all a busy weekend
I also arourfended the nose ahead of Spa trip. Quite pleased with the result. I was quoted £1250 from polished bliss, so decided to buy a computer cut kit from eBay for £85, jobs a good-one. But took me way longer than I expected.
Final task was to try and sort out the candle headlights, I’ve fitted LED bulbs, ok I’ve fitted one bulb today. I want to see the difference between the original and the LED when it’s dark. I’ll take a picture if it’s any good.
All in all a busy weekend
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Nice work.
TBH that’s probably better than the new noisey indicators as it’s barrly audible. Interested in how you find the new bulbs.
TBH that’s probably better than the new noisey indicators as it’s barrly audible. Interested in how you find the new bulbs.
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Silent indicators on something I drove recently. WTF
Utterly daft.
Utterly daft.
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I think I got used to the non ticking indicators as the elise before was so loud I couldn’t hear them in that either.
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Ah. That was it. Robin's S3
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No mine was quite old and lightweight though being an ‘04.campbell wrote:Ah. That was it. Robin's S3
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Hi, I went for HB3 LED's, Bought a cheap set of TXVSO8 headlights form Amazon for £24. I thought if they were rubbish not much lost, I'll meet up with Steve so we can get a direct comparison between standard and LED. I've not been able to get the car out for a drive in the dark yet.
Only issue is I'm having to make up a couple of larger rubber boots to seal off the bulbs as the connectors are a bit longer the original bulbs
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Finally managed to upload a picture showing one of each bulb. New LED on the left. Both bulbs now fitted, just need to get out on the road once the snow has gone.
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Ticking indicators
My uprated bulbs were a different shape connector so I had to heat the rubber boots with a hot air gun and stretch it so they fitted then tie wrapped them on. Seem to have stayed in place ok.Kinger wrote:Hi, I went for HB3 LED's, Bought a cheap set of TXVSO8 headlights form Amazon for £24. I thought if they were rubbish not much lost, I'll meet up with Steve so we can get a direct comparison between standard and LED. I've not been able to get the car out for a drive in the dark yet.
Only issue is I'm having to make up a couple of larger rubber boots to seal off the bulbs as the connectors are a bit longer the original bulbs
The uprated (non-LED) bulbs were a good improvement and raising the aim helped a lot. Pretty decent now.
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Hi D, I'll raise the height when I'm back in fitting the covers. Is the adjust screw the big hex under the headlight unit ?BigD wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:13 pmMy uprated bulbs were a different shape connector so I had to heat the rubber boots with a hot air gun and stretch it so they fitted then tie wrapped them on. Seem to have stayed in place ok.Kinger wrote:Hi, I went for HB3 LED's, Bought a cheap set of TXVSO8 headlights form Amazon for £24. I thought if they were rubbish not much lost, I'll meet up with Steve so we can get a direct comparison between standard and LED. I've not been able to get the car out for a drive in the dark yet.
Only issue is I'm having to make up a couple of larger rubber boots to seal off the bulbs as the connectors are a bit longer the original bulbs
The uprated (non-LED) bulbs were a good improvement and raising the aim helped a lot. Pretty decent now.
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From memory there’s 2. One for up/down and one for left/right. Can’t remember which is which but easy to adjust which makes a change from the S2. But yes a big plastic hex screw.Kinger wrote:Hi D, I'll raise the height when I'm back in fitting the covers. Is the adjust screw the big hex under the headlight unit ?BigD wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:13 pmMy uprated bulbs were a different shape connector so I had to heat the rubber boots with a hot air gun and stretch it so they fitted then tie wrapped them on. Seem to have stayed in place ok.Kinger wrote: Hi, I went for HB3 LED's, Bought a cheap set of TXVSO8 headlights form Amazon for £24. I thought if they were rubbish not much lost, I'll meet up with Steve so we can get a direct comparison between standard and LED. I've not been able to get the car out for a drive in the dark yet.
Only issue is I'm having to make up a couple of larger rubber boots to seal off the bulbs as the connectors are a bit longer the original bulbs
The uprated (non-LED) bulbs were a good improvement and raising the aim helped a lot. Pretty decent now.
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Did you find adjusting the up angle helped at all with the light projection on the road?
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Yes I definitely did.C7Steve wrote:Did you find adjusting the up angle helped at all with the light projection on the road?