Date:         Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:54:02 -0800
Reply-To:     neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Headlight protectors
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Thanks Harold.

IIRC, the the new Bus Depot "Motor Cycle" H4 lights I installed on my
'88 don't have any nipples.

Don: thanks for the thickness dimension and tool suggestions.

Neil.



On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Harold Teer <teer.vanagon@gmail.com> wrote:

> .... Since my E-Code does not have the nipple, I called Xpel and
> they cut me some new film without the hole at no charge.  So, if ordering
> either Xpel or LampGard and you have E-Code headlights without the nipple,
> let the company know beforehand.
>
> Harold


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:


>    My Vanagon hasn't had problems with broken headlamps but if it did I
> would do what I did on one of my dirtbikes, a KTM that saw lots of rocks
> thrown up by other bikes ahead of me on fire roads and down in Baja.   It
> had a flat lens, like my E-code lights in the van, so this would work on
> the van also.   I had some 1/8" Lexan left over from a boat I was working
> on so I cut a piece to cover the headlamp.   You can easily work Lexan with
> home shop tools. You can cut it with a jig saw and smooth it with a
> sander....I have a band saw and a router I rounded over the edges with...
> I used some of those industrial strength stick-on velcro 'dots' to hold the
> lexan lens shield onto the outside of the headlamp...


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Neil n

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