Scottish Elises

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

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.

Silent indicators on something I drove recently. WTF

Utterly daft.

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.

Ah. That was it. Robin's S3

campbell wrote:Ah. That was it. Robin's S3

No mine was quite old and lightweight though being an ‘04.

Kinger wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:11 pm

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.

Which bulbs did you go with? Straight swap?

Sanjøy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:30 pm

Kinger wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:11 pm

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.

Which bulbs did you go with? Straight swap?

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

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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Kinger wrote:

Sanjøy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:30 pm

Kinger wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:11 pm

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.

Which bulbs did you go with? Straight swap?

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

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.

The uprated (non-LED) bulbs were a good improvement and raising the aim helped a lot. Pretty decent now.

BigD wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:13 pm

Kinger wrote:

Sanjøy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:30 pm

Which bulbs did you go with? Straight swap?

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

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.

The uprated (non-LED) bulbs were a good improvement and raising the aim helped a lot. Pretty decent now.

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 ?

Kinger wrote:

BigD wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:13 pm

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

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.

The uprated (non-LED) bulbs were a good improvement and raising the aim helped a lot. Pretty decent now.

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 ?

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.

Did you find adjusting the up angle helped at all with the light projection on the road?

C7Steve wrote:Did you find adjusting the up angle helped at all with the light projection on the road?

Yes I definitely did.