Separating NA front park light lenses?

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Re: Separating NA front park light lenses?

Postby bruce » Sun Feb 01, 2015 5:10 pm

Thanks Droo. I've seen your excellent work. Yes, I was thinking of putting a complete DRL inside the park light.
My amended thoughts - I might drill a hole in the side of the park light and insert a flexible DRL (resealing the hole with silicone). I've seen some which emit a solid bar of light (I dislike the individual light dots).

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Re: Separating NA front park light lenses?

Postby NASilverStone » Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:18 pm

I apologise if I posted a link that it has been suggested is not a legal conversion. I have no affiliation with the website, I was simply posting information that I thought may be of interest/help. Cheers NAS
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Re: Separating NA front park light lenses?

Postby bruce » Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:55 pm

That's a good link though!

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Re: Separating NA front park light lenses?

Postby bruce » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:26 pm

I've added a DRL controller to the stock park lights;
-Indicators are constantly on to act as DRLs
-They blink when indicating (only one side)
-Globes are LEDs
-The lights are obviously amber, but are much easier to see than clear. Don't carry on about legality. I might detango them, but then they will indicate clear.

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Re: Separating NA front park light lenses?

Postby rossburns » Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:09 pm

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Re: Separating NA front park light lenses?

Postby bruce » Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:41 pm

Cheers.
Everything is hidden. The mod is the same as US Miata lights. We don't have the wiring.

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Re: Separating NA front park light lenses?

Postby Rolley » Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:38 am

Do you have a link to how you went about it Bruce?

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Re: Separating NA front park light lenses?

Postby bruce » Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:44 pm

Sorry, no link. Just me and a soldering iron.
The cheap LED globes aren't bright enough. I've ordered some dearer globes and will see how it goes.


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