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Angled Rear Lights - Money Saving Tip
I bought a set of NAS landrover lights for the back of my roadster like these -
Now when it comes to the fog light this needs to be angled, and you can buy angled housings for about £13 but being tight I had a nosy through the screwfix catalogue and found this - http://www.screwfix.com/prods/15872/...pe-350-x-100mm The mounting pods fit perfectly inside the tube and you can easily cut them with a mitre saw (11 degrees). Pack the pod out with some spacers so it is vertical, then slide the cut piece of tube over the pod. GLue in place then smooth the edge over with some body filler and job should be a good one and nice and cheap. I've cut my tubes but not yet fitted them as I'm waiting to get the car on the floor - test fitting they look like this (you will have to turn your head 90 degrees for the first pic as I can't seem to rotate it!) the grren line is my plumb line -
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Nice one David, I seem to spend half my life trying to find cheaper ways of doing stuff. As tight as a sharks ar$e and proud of it.
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Just for info,
the fog light needs to be E marked and have an 'F' on there some where. The examiner had a good look at the fog light. Said it was the only one that needed the 'E' mark. Just thought I'd add that. |
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I,d missed this thread
But as I,ve decided to change my rear lights to the NAS type, came across the same problem of making the fog light vertical ( also doing the reverse light vertical so it all looks right etc), So, Thanks for the locost tips David .........now off down to screwfix David, do you have any photos of the finished result? cheers andy
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Hi Andy
Not got got a finished pic yet. Been getting all the lights fitted up and wired up over the past week so only getting around to the surrounds now. The only problem with the NAS lights is the fog light as mentioned above. CBS do an LED fog light that is F marked in a similar style - http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/product/E..._REAR_FOG_RL42 the only problem is the price at £42 inc vat -
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Gulp, £42 for 1 light.....might have to have a rethink then, I,ve got the NAS indicators & tail/brake lights but still need to purchase the reverse & Fog lights,
Hmmm, best start hunting around I guess, my wallet would dis own me if I paid £42 for 1 light Thanks for the tip on the screwfix tube, got some this afternoon. cheers andy
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Just wanted to say thanks to David for the tip, did mine today and covered them with some leftover carbon film, looks better than the ones I was going to buy!
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