Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:17:18 -0400
Reply-To: Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
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From: Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
Subject: Re: Protecting your fogg lamps
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To protect your fogg lamps you can attach steel mesh to their fronts--the
kind of steel mesh things that large automotive aftermarket store chains
stock. They make a size that can go over your fogg lamps--you just have to
go to big store chain FLAPS and look around. The ones they stock are often
called "stone gards" for off-road use, and come in both round and square
kinds. You want the square kinds.
To attach mine, I drilled little holes in my fiberglass material that goes
around the fogg lamps and around the turn signal lenzes. Then, at the four
corners, I threaded cable ties through the holes and cinched them tight.
Very neat looking.
You can get the large stoneguard mesh things for the regular rectangular
vanagon headlights in some catalogs of JC Whitney but not all. I am sure
Whitney also stocks the little squares so you can mount them on your fogg
lamp plastics.
Funny that he comments on my van at Manassas as I left most of my
accessories home that day. Dennis Haynes used to make fun of me for buying
a $20,000 car and then hanging $20,000 worth of accessories off it instead
of just getting a $40,000 car. My answer is that each accessorie multiplies
the awsomeness of the whole. The trick is to then try to reduce the impact
of all these accessories, and make the whole thing look stock.
At 03:56 PM 7/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-06-29 17:54:47 EDT, sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM writes:
>
><< 5. Any good ideas for stone protection for the P-Z foglights (Rube
>Goldberg
>
> >need not respond - these babies cost $325 a set; I'm not gonna cover them
>
> >with chicken wire or a clear tupperware lid!)
>
>
>
> I'm not sure of any, but I just dicovered that one of mine is already
>cracked!! -- and it is barely three months old :( >>
>
>
>NY listmember Derek drew, has a set of offroad mesh style foglite protectors
>on his Oettinger lower driving lites, which are nearly identical to the
>Pzwo's. Derek told me before where he got them, when i saw his "hooked up"
>:<) (more acessories than i've ever seen on one vanagon) bordeaux red
>syncrowesty at Manassas, but i forgot..
>derek?
>
>chris
>
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