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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: gtitdi on 06 February 2008, 22:38
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just seen this on the vwvortex forums...
(http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~ggodo/passat/led/front_led.jpg)
what do you reckon the law would say to these?
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drl's are legal and actually a sensible idea imo
hella make a set specifically for the mk3... you can find it on their website... if you manage to find someone who can bloody supply em then drop me a line won't you?! :wink:
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only ones form hella iv seen are a universal affair
the audi ones are uber cool
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so you reckon there shouldn't be a problem with these? my dad's thinking of putting some on his passat
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i think they are spot on mate, seen them on a passat before and they looked awesome
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THOSE LEDS are a total RIP OFF of that new audi, cant think of the model, R8 maybe?
But yes DLRs are good idea.
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THOSE LEDS are a total RIP OFF of that new audi, cant think of the model, R8 maybe?
But yes DLRs are good idea.
new tt,a5/s5 and r8 to name a few
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THOSE LEDS are a total RIP OFF of that new audi, cant think of the model, R8 maybe?
But yes DLRs are good idea.
new tt,a5/s5 and r8 to name a few
Yeah, its a total rip, like lexus lights, i would be ashamed to have them on my car. Really would.
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i like smashing lexus lights :smiley: anybody who sold em should be hung :laugh:
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only ones form hella iv seen are a universal affair
go to this site - although the navigation is sh1t and in flash so I can't show you the image
http://www.hella.com/produktion/HellaUK/WebSite/Channels/Drivers/Drivers.jsp (http://www.hella.com/produktion/HellaUK/WebSite/Channels/Drivers/Drivers.jsp)
click 'daytime running lamps'
then
start here: daytime running lamps
choose 'retrofitting'
then 'customized daytime running light sets'
press the down arrow where it says Opel astra and the lights for the mkV, IV and III are there
again - if anyone knows where I can get these in the uk please can you let me know! ta :wink:
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what about this idea....
(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/boneybradley/16102007214.jpg)
(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/boneybradley/Picture026.jpg)
borrowed from another site..but you get the idea
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could you not contact hella direct
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im doin that to mine boneybradley but in different lights looks good :smiley:
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could you not contact hella direct
they got a base in the uk then?
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could you not contact hella direct
they got a base in the uk then?
need a brain transplant tonight then :embarassed:
"Hella’s UK headquarters are based at Banbury, Oxfordshire with its subsidiary company, Hella Ireland Ltd., based in Dublin. "
will get onto them tomorrow!
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theirs a hella factory in leeds too, with a shop...
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could you not contact hella direct
they got a base in the uk then?
need a brain transplant tonight then :embarassed:
"Hella’s UK headquarters are based at Banbury, Oxfordshire with its subsidiary company, Hella Ireland Ltd., based in Dublin. "
will get onto them tomorrow!
haha :smiley:
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I still dont get the point of these? why dont you just turn your lights on?
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DRL's are passive rather than active illumination ... they point towards other drivers without blinding them
low beam point towards the ground and illuminates the path in front of you
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DRL's are passive rather than active illumination ... they point towards other drivers without blinding them
low beam point towards the ground and illuminates the path in front of you
IF SOME ONE, CANT HEAR OR SEE ME IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
Im sorry, you might aswell paint it flourecent!!!
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what about this idea....
(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/boneybradley/16102007214.jpg)
(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/boneybradley/Picture026.jpg)
borrowed from another site..but you get the idea
saw a corsa chav car with this mod last week....its put me right of it which is a shame
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I must say you dont here of many accidents happening in the daytime because "i didnt see the person in front of me" :grin:
To be fair my car is a big bright red object with a loud exhaust, if they miss that, then a few LEDs wont help lol.
On the other hand they do look realy cool! but i think thats as far as it goes realy. its just an excuse to drive about with ur fog lights on but without being laughed at :grin:
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I must say you dont here of many accidents happening in the daytime because "i didnt see the person in front of me" :grin:
To be fair my car is a big bright red object with a loud exhaust, if they miss that, then a few LEDs wont help lol.
On the other hand they do look realy cool! but i think thats as far as it goes realy. its just an excuse to drive about with ur fog lights on but without being laughed at :grin:
Thank you, finnally some sense.
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this picture doesn't show it up too well but they do make sense...
shows no lights, low beam and then drl's in a 'low light' situation
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2110/2248871535_683dd59906_o.gif)
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TBH, you can see the car fine, and if it gets dull, u turn on teh side lights, if you cant see the car, you shouldnt drive, or turn on ur lights, its something that they added to expensive cars, but cheap cars dont have them, as you DONT need them.
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side lights aren't meant to be driven with (although everyone does)
and most people won't turn on and off their lights when it gets dull or when they are going through a poorly lit/shady bit of road as pictured above... drl's are on all the time that your car is running and that your main beam or side lights/parking lights aren't on
driving with lights on during daylight is mandatory in all scandanavian countries and I think poland and italy now
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Ive been driving with my lights on lately as so many dickheads on the road keep pulling out on me. Also I have xenons so they look cool :tongue:
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lets all be honest.. they are their to look cool and that is it.. :cool: or in some cases their to make u look a chav
the audi's look absolutly awesome and nobody can say they dont, just as the BMW's did when they first introduced the halo head lamps, now every chav has angel eye headlights :rolleyes:
as said before...use your sidelights if visibility is reduced at all...
the only other good thing about them i guess is the fact they draw less power than your sidelights with them been LED..
then again, u may as well do the xenon upgrade like i have instead, uses less than half the power of your crappy halogen bulbs....
it comes down to a personal thing, i love the audi's....but i wouldnt bother retro fitting them instead of my fog lights as i prefere a OE look, just my personal taste
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AMEN kells.
Well done dec.
And they are mandatory in stupid countries. lol. With sprawling moutains, forests, etc, not a bustilin country like england. If they were needed,all cars would have them.
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my mate had a old volvo 240 once....everyone knows volvos have their lights turned on all the time and they aint no drl, they are just the normal side lights, we wired them up so they wernt on all the time :laugh: :laugh: other volvo owners used to ask him all the time how he managed to switch off his lights hahahahahahahaha...what a sh!t car that was :grin: :grin:
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look... people have asked why they are used instead of lights and whether they are legal and i have tried to explain the bloody difference - that is all
i like the way they look and in principle I agree with the idea of DRL's because I am fcuked off with people pulling out in front of me and saying they 'didn't see me'
And they are mandatory in stupid countries. lol. With sprawling moutains, forests, etc, not a bustilin country like england. If they were needed,all cars would have them.
and it is because this country is 'bustilin' and I drive to work on country lanes that I want them
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Guy, you want them...you get them :wink:
your car dude, your choice you dont need to explain your reasons, we all have our opinions and luckily they are all different, if not we would all be driving identical cars etc :laugh:
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Guy, you want them...you get them :wink:
your car dude, your choice you dont need to explain your reasons, we all have our opinions and luckily they are all different, if not we would all be driving identical cars etc :laugh:
cheers dude... just feel i am getting grief for trying to answer peoples questions factually
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Its just mikester gettin out of his pram again about a mod he doesnt agree with HaHa :grin:
:kiss:
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they would look sh!t on a mk3 :sick:
if you want lights during the day just turn your head lights on :tongue:
or you could get some led washer jets too! whoop whoop!! :grin:
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Wasnt a dig at you, sorry. Just i dont see the point in them. If i have to mod my car to have extra lights so people dont hit me. I think there is something wrong :laugh:
Might get some neons......... ahha