Audi Side Light Project with Piccy's (cross posted on SELOC)

[ptp170]

Been slowly working on an Audi style LED side light solution for my Elise over the last couple of days and thought I'd post he progress on here

Have nearly finished the O/S lamp, just some tidying of wires and two more LED's to be fitted of the left land side of the upper 'brow'

Total cost of the conversion has been a bank breaking £14.99 at the moment



Will post some more piccys over the next few nights to show progress and the final look of the car at night

Chris

Edited by ptp170 on Tuesday 11th December 01:11

Edited by ptp170 on Tuesday 11th December 01:35

[riwiho]

personally I think the Audi style LEDs are very cool however there was a good point in this months EVO, I think it was in the Fast Fleet section, Audi S5. Before long everyone will have or want these on their car taking away there 'coolness'

I think they look good. Please post some pictures of how they look when fitted, both day and night would be great.

[tricky 100]

Looks good , sadly so did Lexus rear lights before the chavs caught on .

[Gooby]

tricky 100 said:

Looks good , sadly so did Lexus rear lights before the chavs caught on .

I completly agree. That looks great but will they in 7-8 months?

[emenel]

They look very nice indeed. It's a shame that these kind of alterations are considered a bit chavvy regardless of how good they look. Had Lotus added these to the MY08 cars I'm sure they would have been extremely well received.

Good work!

[kevin ritson]

emenel said:

Had Lotus added these to the MY08 cars I'm sure they would have been extremely well received.

How does that fit in with add lightness? Besides if they were anything like the rear LEDs, half of them would fail in a couple of weeks

If Lotus ever follow Audi then they've seriously lost the plot. What next, vague steering feel?

[ptp170]

kevin ritson said:

emenel said:

Had Lotus added these to the MY08 cars I'm sure they would have been extremely well received.

How does that fit in with add lightness? Besides if they were anything like the rear LEDs, half of them would fail in a couple of weeks

If Lotus ever follow Audi then they've seriously lost the plot. What next, vague steering feel?

Hopefully mine will last longer as I'm 'buffering' them with capacitors to iron out any 'spikes' that may occur plus also I'm not running the LED's at anywhere near their maximum foward voltage. Always allow for a bit of variance when it comes to LED's, a lot of factors depend on their lifespan, voltage, temperature, spikes, manufacturing 'tollerances' etc. I think that many aftermarket or OEM units are pushed to the max hence why they fail.

Chris

[Jez O]

Don't like those I'm afraid. Looks like a marginally more acceptable version of underbody neon to me!
Just my opinion.

[emenel]

kevin ritson said:

emenel said:

Had Lotus added these to the MY08 cars I'm sure they would have been extremely well received.

How does that fit in with add lightness? Besides if they were anything like the rear LEDs, half of them would fail in a couple of weeks

If Lotus ever follow Audi then they've seriously lost the plot. What next, vague steering feel?

IMO the rear LED's, reliable or not, were the best (only?) visual improvement made to the S2 since it came out. Something like this at the front end would have done a good job at 'freshening up' the 08 models from a design that has been around for a while now.

Besides, I can't imagine that they weigh an awful lot so the driving experience shouldn't suffer too much. As great as Lotus are, I'm sure there are some elements of Audi and the like that would be a welcome addition for most owners.

[kevin ritson]

emenel said:

As great as Lotus are, I'm sure there are some elements of Audi and the like that would be a welcome addition for most owners.

Nope, still can't think of any Audi bits. Suppose the VX220 comes close as it would be like the VW version

[tricky 100]

kevin ritson said:

emenel said:

As great as Lotus are, I'm sure there are some elements of Audi and the like that would be a welcome addition for most owners.

Nope, still can't think of any Audi bits. Suppose the VX220 comes close as it would be like the VW version

I dunno , i think Audi have done great job turning Lamborghini around . Im sure lotus would improve greatly with Audi in control .