Headlight Beam Benders
Headlight Beam Benders
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Cuchillo

Original Poster:

687 posts

294 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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Hiho,

What type of beam benders do I need for a 97 Chim for driving in Europe?

TIA

Cuch

Big Al.

69,336 posts

287 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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Shouldn't bother I didn't, brought a set from Halfrauds and never fitted them. Two weeks driving in France no problems.

snorky

2,322 posts

280 months

Friday 19th March 2004
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which set did you buy tho Al....are TVR listed in Halfwits book - they never normally are.????

ATG

23,680 posts

301 months

Saturday 20th March 2004
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I used halfwit's ones. Although TVR isn't listed, if you look at the diagrams for "normal" headlights you can find a good match for the Chimaera's bosch lights ... a sort of wedge pattern in the glass. The beam bender wotsits needed to be trimmed down a bit to fit. For what it's worth, I was in France a month ago avec beam deflectors and no one gave me the full-beam objection, but I was over there again last week sans beam deflectors and I got flashed a couple of times. When I got back to blightey and removed them, i found a lot of glue remained on the glass and needed turps or meths to shift it.

ribol

11,991 posts

287 months

Sunday 21st March 2004
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I have used ally body repair tape for this job for years, it never falls off due to heat or water, leaves no glue behind and a £5 roll will get both lights done at least 50 times. It is really easy to work out which part of the lens deflects the light.

Ivan