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Glass Headlights. Mystery unraveling ;)
Well. Just got the glass lights in the mail today. Hoping to figure a few things out.
Pics of disassembly included. And basic line up. Alright. First removed is the glass. I did this by heating the whole unit in the oven at 230 degrees for 8 minutes. Came apart fairly easily. Used screwdrivers for careful prying. Apologies for oversized images...but then again, now you can see things that much better right? Now you can see the infamous 'block off plate' This was removed by the two screws in the front, as well as an 'adjuster' screw in the back. Judging by its making, I am fairly confident that our foglight assemblies will bolt right in. Here is the highbeam light. Note the parking light also inside the housing. Im not sure what I think of that little thing yet...but we will see what happens later. Beware of this little white thing. It holds in the highbeam/low beam assembly. Its evil. After fighting with it for 10 minutes..... .....it did this to me. Ok. its just a flesh wound.....anyway, instead of trying to pop it off (as its made), I finagled a way to unscrew the white thing from the back side. and then I was done for the day. (exhausted and hungry. bleeding......*cough*......
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'92 Liquid Silver SVX - Drilled&Slotted Rotors/Canadian OEM Seat Warmers/JDM Folding Mirrors/JDM Clear Corners/Euro Glass Headlights/Euro Headlight Level Adjustment/Euro Shifter Assembly/ECUTune Chip V.1/GARAGE QUEEN! Last edited by zavikan; 10-27-2009 at 08:20 AM. Reason: Finally got around to resizing pics. 350 views each, back to 0 |
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Re: Glass Headlights. Mystery unraveling ;)
That tiny light is what is part of what is referred to as "city lights". It illuminates the housing. They were also on the JDM headlights which I used to have.
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Re: Glass Headlights. Mystery unraveling ;)
Zavikan
Thanks for the pics, although they are seriously way too big. Thanks anyway Now that you have them at that stage of dis-assembly, there is one job you could do that will save you a whole lot of grief, and end up with the best compromise. If you take the plastic lenses from your Canadian lamps, and glue on the glass front to your existing lamps, you will have almost the "best of both worlds"
Decisions, decisions
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Re: Glass Headlights. Mystery unraveling ;)
Resize your pictures....
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Re: Glass Headlights. Mystery unraveling ;)
I would resize... but it was hard enough for me to figure out how to get them online.. so....no.....cant we have a tech savvy admin do it?
I am sort of planning on what ur saying svxitentialist. I do not know yet if the plastic housing is the same. I have a feeling it might be. If it is IDENTICAL, I might be able to attach the headlight leveling motor. I am pretty sure the innards will be plug and play w/ the american ones. meaning I get foglights, as well as 9005/6 bulbs. (though I almost wonder, are our 9005/6 bulb combos better then these german ones? why switch to the american? all style bulbs are available here.) Plug and play HIDs are in the cards of course (seriously, they are glass, gotta go for the gold), in which case I think the 9006 HID retrofits would work best... I would like to see a few pics of SVX with 'city lights' on. I dont recall ever seeing any (though I have heard of the bulbs existance of course). James
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Re: Glass Headlights. Mystery unraveling ;)
testing............
Last edited by kwren; 03-16-2009 at 08:01 PM. |
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Re: Glass Headlights. Mystery unraveling ;)
don't mind me
Last edited by kwren; 03-16-2009 at 08:02 PM. |
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