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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Haribo! on 21 January 2006, 14:07

Title: inner lights
Post by: Haribo! on 21 January 2006, 14:07

could i mod the inner lights to work the same as the outer lights? with both beam settings?
my plan is to get angel eyes for the inners is it will work

Title: Re: inner lights
Post by: rubjonny on 21 January 2006, 15:08

you would have to mod the bulb housing to take a H4 bulb, and run wires from the back of your front lights to em.  only problem is they probably wont be set up to focus the dipped beam light properly!

Title: Re: inner lights
Post by: steviem on 21 January 2006, 15:11

I was wondering just this...

For just the effect of light coming from the angel eyes, you'll need to splice the existing dipped beam wires to get the angel eyes to come on.
Then when you use full beam the spots will come on.
But I'm not too sure...

Title: Re: inner lights
Post by: roverspeed on 22 January 2006, 00:21

take your side lights out, and use the power cables for these as a switcher for the angel eyes, make a separate loom for the angel eyes, which would turn on when your side lights are on, these stay on with dipped and full beam(or they do with my car anyways,

I assume the effect your trying to achieve is when your dipped beams are on the outers, your inners are only on with angels eyes???

The above would do this.

I have been toying with the idea of making angel eyes once I get crystal inners and outers ( i would only do this with crytals, the fluting on the normal lenses make the angel lights look rubbish imo)

Anyways, i was playing around with the idea of opening the light units up and attaching maybe three tight together loops of this stuff

http://www.litewave.co.uk/glow_wire.asp

(with very tiny dabs of super glue to the inside of the lens) and then paint the back of the the el fibre black, or coat it in something to block light spilling back onto the relfectors in the lights)

What you guys think of that idea? On and the glow wire i would use would be white, 2.5 mm superbright.

I persoanlly think this would give a much better affect than any of the currently available angel eye kits.

Warren.

Title: Re: inner lights
Post by: rubjonny on 22 January 2006, 11:54

it would be very tricky to get it to look cood, but if you put the work in I recon it'll be ok.  problem is getting the string perfectly round, and also getting it to meet up nicly at the ends!

Title: Re: inner lights
Post by: roverspeed on 30 January 2006, 16:28

the plan i have been trying to come up with is not to have them meeting up, i am going to try and get them having a non complete circle, hard to explain

i will maybe photoshop it


its surprisingly easy to get it straight, i forgot to mention i did angel eyes on my motorbike this way, but decided to do it on the car now much brigher el wire is available