Date:         Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:48:07 -0800
Reply-To:     daveb@CP.NET
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From:         Dave Bayer <daveb@CP.NET>
Subject:      Re: Quad Grilles are Back!
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KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> The H3s that will be coming with the grilles this time are DOT approved.  So
> no problems with inspection.

        Are these the like the 'off-road' lamps that came
with the original shipment of the SA grilles or does these
inner lights have real mounts with adjusting screws so you
can properly aim the things?

        For those that don't know, the first batch of
these grilles that Eurospec brought in included a driving
lamps that were basicly those lights that 'off-roaders'
stick up on their lighting bars - the back of the units
where encased in a metal jacket, they mounted via a post
coming out the bottom to a bracket that Eurospec created
(which required drilling new holes in the sheet metal). One
aimed these things by loosening the nut that held the
lamp to the bracket, findling with the lamp and then
tighten the nut down and hoping that you didn't screw
the alignment up in the process...

        The real inner lights from SA where simply a
piece of sheet metal with a total of 4 bends in it and
the same inner Hella light that one finds on the euro
4 light system for the rabbit/golf/jetta which includes
nice adjusting screws so you can precisely set the beam
with the grille on...

        Oh, I have a set of the old lights if anyone
wants a spare set of 55W H3 lights for extra light...
I'd like to recoup some of the money I spent on the
correct inner lamps but I also want to reclear out the
space they take up in my box-o-stuff-for-the-bus.

dave