Date:         Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:57:39 -0700
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Rectangular headlights... low & high-beam units same shape?
Comments: To: BenT An <syncro@gmail.com>
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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?

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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
<goose1047@gmail.com>