Date:         Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:04:40 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: highbeam low beam swap around
Comments: To: Brian & Carol Megas <bmegas@ISLAND.NET>
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At 09:20 AM 8/18/2003, Brian & Carol Megas wrote:

>Would this proposed setup provide good "low beams" for myself as well as
>vehicles in front of me and oncomoming traffic?
>
>Would this provide good "high beams" or would I then have to try and
>find a replacement for the inside round high beam headlight?
>
>I know, I should just try all this myself and then just tell the list
>how it works out, but this just sounds like the kind of thing
>other folks on the list may haave already tried.

This would be really terrible.  You'd either blind other drivers or have
light in all the wrong places yourself.  Don't waste your time.  Fix the
low beams by one of the methods exhaustively discussed here: Get E-code
Vanagon headlights, get a South-African grille and use 7" round E-code
lights, get an older 2-light grille and use 7" round E-code lights.  Using
7" round USS sealed-beams (H6014 or similar) would at least give you a good
implementation of the standard US-pattern low beam and they're very cheap
-- but the round E-code lights aren't all that expensive.

david

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