I have seen images of replacement rectangular headlight kits, and these seem to show separate high and low-beam units which are the same size and shape. However looking at images of vans, the inner lights seem to be narrower than the outers (no, I have never looked closely at a rectangular-light van... it's not as if they're thick on the ground in Calgary). If this is so, what ARE the inner lights for? Are the outers hi/lo? I'm thinking now that rectangular lights look better than South African round ones... but sourcing a set of "semisealed" RHD halogen low-beams could be a problem if they are unique to these vehicles. It would be legal to use LHD lows in New Zealand, but I'd have to make tape cutouts for them, which wouldn't look great, and then the molded-n cutouts would leave the left edge of the road dark. If the fittings are generic rectangular, like the ones in my 89 diesel Corolla wagon, then there's no problem. I can fit some Stanley lows from a NZ wrecker. I believe the US got unique buckets which don't fit generic lights? Or do halogen replacements fit the US buckets? -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand Fossil preparator Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada <goose1047@gmail.com> |
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