Fog / Driving lights & Grill

[Paul]

Hi Doug,

I've just taken a set of the super cheap lights out of my car in favour of
some amber fog lamps.
Nothing really wrong with the super cheap ones, except the beam was un
focused so a bit bright for oncoming cars at night.
Got the amber one's from Auto One in Cnr Austin St & Turner PL, Onekawa;
$40.00. The beam is better focused.
I hadn't got around to wiring a switch into the dash and failed my WOF this
week, I removed them to get the WOF, and will probably be rewiring them this
weekend, as well as attaching the Super Cheap ones into a mates MR2.

I'll also be fitting a grill that I picked up from MX5Mart last weekend
(black).

Give me a call if you want to look and or get a hand not sure exactly when
we'll do it yet, probably Saturday.

As a warning the Sealed beam headlights I purchased from Super Cheap a
couple of months back also failed the WOF as they didn't vary the focus of
the high & low beams, just varied the brightness. I'll have to go back to
Super Cheap and discuss it with them. I'm fitting non sealed beams to
replace them - should have done it last time but was feeling cheap!

I also had to replace the tyres, got some Barum Bravuris (185/60 14's) @
$525.00 for all four fitted and a wheel alignment, from Karamu Tyre Services
in Hastings. They are apparently a Continental tyre made under license in
Portugal, directional and a tread wear index of 280, they look like they
should be good in the wet, and feel better than the Kelly's I had on before
so far (only about 60kms mainly open road so far)
I'll post a quick review of them once I've run them in and had a play on
some back roads.


Paul Siddles
021 408 934

[Greg]

hi, all

Paul - good point which I should have mentioned. I turn the spots off at
night for that very reason. I already had the dash fog-light switch &
under-bonnet wiring & just needed to get some extra wiring loom to connect
the lights to the plugs in front of the radiator. Not sure - someone else
may know, but just check that the fog-light wiring & relay isn't lurking in
your car already as a standard factory install - may save some grief & extra
work.

Regards,
Greg

[Doug Matheson]

Thanks Paul. I will give you a call.
Cheers doug

[Grant]

I installed a couple of lights sold by Repco as Brighteyes, I think. They
were on sale at the time, so a good price. These use standard 50 watt 12
volt house downlight bulbs available anywhere. I replaced them with
elliptical pattern 20 watt units as the 50 watt ones were too bright. I only
use them as running lights. These I mounted using the two bolts up in the
top of the 'mouth'. They fit well in front of my metal grill that is also
held by the bolts.
They are wired, using a relay, so that they are on automatically whenever
the ignition is on. The return of the relay coil is to the dip filaments of
the normal headlights so ensuring the running lights are off when the
headlights are on dip. Passed a number of WOF's with no problems.

Grant.