clear indicators

Brucey wrote: - anyone put these or seen them on a RED 635? If so, wossit  look like?? I'd like to know before I splash out.....

Not seen clear lenses on a red car, must admit. They do look well on white, black and dark blue cars, though. Will have to trawl the Net at some stage to see if I can find you a view or two...

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Peter Fenwick wrote: I wondered why the bumpers looked so big. Bit of a shame really, for the Americans anyway, because in my opinion it spoils the look of the whole car.

It took until 1988 for the US-spec cars to share the same "Highline" bumpers as the ones over here...

Peter Fenwick wrote: Just looking at those picks of the US spec cars. Are the bumpers different from Euro spec models?

Up until the 1988 model year, US-spec cars were saddled with Federal 5mph bumpers front and rear, which jutted out considerably further than those on the Euro-spec cars. They were sometimes nicknamed "Park Benches", as you could sit quite comfortably on them...

NEWS UPDATE: a new batch of clear indicator lenses has been produced by Mats Kinnby, and these can now be ordered from him via his Website (see earlier postings).

Nice car but I'm not sure about the wheels.

heres one of the pics i saw b4

 

MickHarris wrote: Horsetan wrote: [QUOTE=kevin]The only problem I've experienced in my experiments so far is that the LEDs consume so little current, that the Check Control warning lights are triggered!   have u tried beefing up the side or rear bulbs then to counter this?

Since it was my intention to replace all the bulbs with LEDs, what I would really need is either:

1) something to simulate the current consumption of a bulb, i.e. a suitable resistor wired in parallel with each LED cluster "feed"; or

2) in the case of the indicators, a flasher relay which is "load insensitive", i.e. it won't be fooled into thinking that no bulb is present. Problem is that I don't know anyone who makes / sells such a relay which is suitable for BMWs.

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Horsetan wrote: MickHarris wrote: any other pics of the car btw??? Of course! Have a look at the page which Motormec dedicated to it....

 

very nice m8

kevin wrote: Sorry I wasn't aware of your extreme LED project. LED's seem to be everywhere now. Good Luck.

Only because I don't really want to have to change bulbs if I can help it.

The only problem I've experienced in my experiments so far is that the LEDs consume so little current, that the Check Control warning lights are triggered!